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Let’s bake some spooky treats with this easy sugar cookie recipe, perfect for your halloween party! Learn how to make cookies from scratch and decorate them with my homemade buttercream frosting recipe for impressive cookie decorating ideas. These homemade cookies are sure to be a hit! In our Halloween episode, we’re baking my family’s secret, delicious homemade sugar cookie recipe from scratch. We will then use delightfully spooky cookie cutters and have fun decorating pumpkins, bats, and ghosts. These cookies are scrumptious and add ghostly joy to any Halloween festivity.

How to Decorate Halloween Cookies
Equipment
Ingredients
- Wilton Edible Candy Eyeballs
- candy corn
- Buttercream Frosting white
- Buttercream Frosting orange
- Buttercream or Chocolate Frosting brown
- Edible writing gel black
- AmeriColor Gel Food Coloring Kit Recommended food coloring for homemade frosting
Instructions
- Decorating Bat: brown frosting (chocolate or dyed buttercream), line and add mouth with black writing gel and use candy eye balls.
- Decorating Ghost: white frosting with black writing gel for mouth and optional "BOO!" and candy eye balls.
- Decorating Pumpkin: orange frosting with candy corn for eyes and black writing gel for lips
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Notes

Hi, I’m Allison, the founder of Simple Fantastic Kitchen. I live in the mountains in a tiny house with a tiny kitchen where I make