Monster Halloween Sugar Cookies are so cute for halloween parties! With only a few steps, kids love helping make them!
With Halloween right around the corner, these are a MUST SAVE for all the parties and events coming up. I love Halloween and these cookies are simple to make, require no fancy cookie skills, and the kids love helping out with them.
Halloween recipes are so fun, and these are no exception! This recipe uses a shortcut method by using store-bought sugar cookie dough, but making the dough homemade is also an option.
How to make Monster Halloween Sugar Cookies:
**scroll down for full ingredients list and printable directions**
- Cooking supplies/tools needed for recipe:
- Stand mixer
- Mixing bowls
- Measuring cups and spoons
- Rolling Pin
- Baking sheet
- Wire rack
- Cookie Cutters (sunflower or sunshine shape like these)
- Icing bottles
- Toothpicks
- Get all the ingredients together:
- For the dough: refrigerated pre-made sugar cookie dough (such as pillsbury found in the fridge section of the grocery store), and all purpose flour.
- For the icing: powdered sugar, meringue powder, water, and gel food coloring.
- For the cookies: monster candy eyes.
To make: Combine cookie dough and flour. Roll to ¼” thickness. Cut out cookie shapes. Bake at 350 degrees F for 8 minutes or until the edges start to brown.
Prepare the icing:
- In a stand mixer combine powdered sugar and meringue powder. Add 8 tablespoons of water, using the whisk attachment, beat for 1 minute on low. Continue to add water one tablespoon at a time until the icing slowly drizzles from the whisk when lifted.
- Once prepared - if the icing is too hard, add more water one drop at a time. Too runny, add more icing sugar one teaspoon at a time.
- Separate the icing into small mixing bowls and add desired food coloring. Mix well. Scoop the icing into piping bags or icing bottles.
How to decorate the Halloween Sugar cookies:
- Make sure the cookies are cooled.
- Line around the edge of the design with icing
- Fill the middle. Use a toothpick to poke bubbles or direct icing into holes.
- Repeat for all cookies using different colors (whatever colors desired).
Allow each design area to dry before moving on. The icing should completely dry, at room temperature for at least two hours, before adding piping details to the top.
- Pipe a small amount of the same colored icing on the tops of the cookies where you want to put the eyes. The number of candy eyes can vary per cookie.
- Add the candy eyes and press firmly to adhere to the icing. Repeat for all halloween sugar cookies, then let dry for at least one hour prior to serving.
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Monster Halloween Sugar Cookies are so cute for halloween parties! With only a few steps, kids love helping make them!
- 1 package refrigerated sugar cookie dough (or use homemade recipe linked in note section)
- ¼ cup all purpose flour
- 4 cups powdered sugar
- 3 tablespoons meringue powder
- 8-12 tablespoons room temperature water
- Gel food coloring
- candy monster eyes
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Combine dough and flour. Roll to ¼” thickness. Cut out cookie shapes.
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Bake at 350 for 8 minutes or until the edges start to brown. Remove from oven and cool completely on wire rack.
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In a stand mixer combine sugar and meringue powder. Add 8 tablespoons of water, using the whisk attachment, beat for 1 minute on low. Continue to add water one tablespoon at a time until the icing slowly drizzles from the whisk when lifted.
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**Once prepared - if the icing is too hard, add more water one drop at a time. Too runny, add more icing sugar one teaspoon at a time.
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Separate the icing into small mixing bowls and add desired food coloring. Mix well. Scoop the icing into piping bags or icing bottles.
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Line around the edge of the design with icing and fill the middle. Use a toothpick to poke bubbles or direct icing into holes
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Allow each icing area to dry completely before moving on.
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Add dots of royal icing to the cookie where you want to affix candy eyes. Place a candy eye onto each dot of icing and allow to dry completely before packaging or storing. Repeat for all cookies.
Beth
I love that you went the cute route instead of the blood and gore route. These are the kinds of cookies I love to make the most at Halloween.
Sandra
These are so cute! Can't wait for Halloween!
Erin | Dinners, Dishes and Dessert
I love it! No doubt, this is really amazing!
Juliane
This is SO good! I made this with my cousins and we all loved these!
Allyssa
This is really easy to follow, loved this sugar cookies recipe! It's really tasty and very flavorful! Will surely have this again! Highly recommended!
Kara
Such a cute idea! I made homemade cookie dough, and my daughter had a lot of fun decorating them!
Kristyn
Adding the candy eyes to desserts, makes them so fun & festive! These sugar cookies are so good!! The icing goes on so smooth!
Erik
So cute, I bet my nephews would love them!
Catalina
I love cookies for any occasion! And these look fabulous!
katerina @ diethood.com
I LOVE these! They are super cute!
katerina @ diethood.com
I can't to make these for Halloween!! They are adorable!