When do you start your Halloween celebrations? For our family, it seems to just be an ongoing affair, all year long! We have two little ones and they just love spooky season. We started early this year, in August. We've already watched a few Halloween movies, we've been to the costume store, we are ready. So it felt like the appropriate time to share these super cute cookies. I taught these cookies as a beginner class in person last year. We had so much fun making these easy beginner cookies, and I can't wait to show you all how they're made too!
If you enjoy decorating with an all-in-one consistency, you can find more beginner tutorials here. If you're looking for a challenge, all my tutorials can be found here, and cookie classes can be found here. The hand cutting templates can be found here.
To get started with these cookies, you will need all-in-one icing. My recipe can be found here. If you'd like royal icing help you can find my posts about that here. Typically, I consider all-in-one icing to be about a 15-20 second consistency. This means that when your icing is sitting in a bowl, and you drag a knife through it, it will take about that long for the line to disappear. Everyone has a personal preference for what "all-in-one" icing means for them, so it's worth it to experiment. I only use this consistency for simpler designs myself.
For colors you will need white, yellow, light green, orange, and black. You can mix this up by using purple, or other shades of green. You really can't go wrong with Halloween.
See below to make these colors:
White - straight from the mixer
Yellow - a tiny drop of yellow food gel. If your yellow is too bright, try adding a teensy bit of brown to tone it down. See my royal icing tips for more info on that.
Green - if all you have is a leaf green, or a generic green shade, you can add some yellow to get that light green shade. Or you can use a light green food gel.
Orange - I always add a touch of brown when I make orange.
Black - mix this to a dark grey, then add a teensy touch of yellow.
Make sure to clip the holes in your bags very small. I use tipless bags for my decorating. Remember that you can always make the hole bigger, but you cannot make it smaller. I start at about 1-2 millimeter size holes.
For our pumpkin cookie, start by squeezing some black icing onto the base of the cookie. spread this flat, and let it crust over before piping any more onto the cookie.
Use the orange icing to lay the ground work for your jack-o-lantern design. I start with the face, then I make the lines around that. Flood only the middle section of the pumpkin, and let this crust before going further.
Flood the outer sections of the pumpkin, and let these crust for 15-20 minutes. Then flood the stem in green. See the step by step photos below.
Our ghost is similar to the pumpkin, but much easier. Spread black icing onto the part of the cookie where you would like the ghost's face to be, and let it crust. Outline the face - remember to make these shapes larger than you think they should be. Outline the body of the cookie and flood with white. It's that simple!
I love this potion bottle! To start, use the white icing to outline the whole base of the bottle, and the top where the lid will connect. Leave some open space for the black stopper we will add at the end. Partially flood the body of the cookie in green. Add white dots to the green icing while it is still wet. Use your scribe, or a toothpick to pull each dot up, down, left, and right, to create star shapes. Add some green bubbles in the open area of the bottle, and add the black lid.
For the spooky moon, start by outlining the cloud shape in white. You really can't go wrong as all clouds are unique anyways, so don't worry if your shape doesn't match mine. Flood the cloud in white. Let this crust for 15-20 minutes. Outline the moon in yellow, then flood with yellow icing as well. While the yellow is still wet, add 3 drops of white icing. Use your scribe or toothpick to drag the icing up, down, left, and right to make star shapes.
And as always, let your cookies dry, find an open window and snap a few photos!
Thanks for talking cookies with me!
- Savannah
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