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Royal Icing Halloween Sugar Cookies & Contest Winners!

October 31, 2011 by Suzie the Foodie 5 Comments

Decorated Halloween Cookies with Royal Icing

Happy Halloween everyone! Oh I can’t believe the day is here and I still have so much to do. To celebrate I am sharing some Halloween decorated cookies with you and announcing the winners of my Halloween contest.

Halloween Candy Contest Winners

Not quite yet though! Stingy the spider will be protecting the names until the end of this post.

MAKING THE COOKIES

Decorated Halloween Cookies with Royal Icing

At Home Sense I bought a Wilton Halloween Cookie Pan and two fantastic Halloween spatulas (as well as the silver skull that I used for the draw). They were my Halloween foodie presents for this year’s celebration so I put them to good use. I made half the batch of the recipe for the sugar cookies that came with the pan but will write it in full for you.

In a large bowl cream together 1 cup of softened butter with 1 1/2 cups of sugar. Beat in 1 egg and 1 1/2 tsp of clear vanilla extract. I used orange instead.

Decorated Halloween Cookies with Royal Icing

Combine 2 3/4 cup flour with 1 tsp of salt. Add to butter mixture and beat until blended.

Decorated Halloween Cookies with Royal Icing Decorated Halloween Cookies with Royal Icing

Lightly spray the pan with vegetable pan spray and preheat the oven to 350F. Press dough into the cavities so they are 2/3 full. Bake 9-10 minutes in the oven until lightly brown around the edges. Cool in pan for 5 minutes then turn and tap to remove cookies.

Decorated Halloween Cookies with Royal Icing

Cool completely on a cooling rack before decorating. I needed to use a palette knife to wedge some of them out but overall the pan worked great.

DECORATING THE COOKIES

Decorated Halloween Cookies with Royal Icing Decorated Halloween Cookies with Royal Icing

My dearest blogging buddy Ava recommended this royal icing recipe to me last year. I finally had an opportunity to make it, thanks Ava! I made half the recipe but will write it in full for you.

Sift 4 cups icing sugar and 1/2 tsp cream of tartar into the bowl of a mixer. Dissolve 1/4 cup meringue powder in 1/2 cup warm water.

Decorated Halloween Cookies with Royal Icing Decorated Halloween Cookies with Royal Icing

Start slowing whisking the dry ingredients together and then add in the dissolved meringue powder. Keep pushing down the sides of the bowl until everything is whisked together. Whisk on high for 7 minutes.

Decorated Halloween Cookies with Royal Icing

Now the hard part for me…. the decorating. I wanted most of the backgrounds of the cookies to be black so I added a lot of the food colouring to some of the royal icing.

Decorated Halloween Cookies with Royal Icing

It ended up being more grey than black. Because it was supposed to the the background I was supposed to thin it a little with warm water. I made some other colours too.

Decorated Halloween Cookies with Royal Icing

Now the royal icing recipe said to do the outline first which I interpreted as also doing the details. I was wrong. Not only that, because I used gel icing for the cookies, it was a bit of a disaster. I did not know that gel icing does not harden!!!

You are supposed to flood the cookies with the thinned background colour after adding the outlines which I tried to do and it flooded over everything.

Decorated Halloween Cookies with Royal Icing

As a result, I just left a lot of the cookies with the gelled detailing as-is. I never said I was a pastry artist! I am more of a sculptor than a painter so this was way more frustrating that fun.

Decorated Halloween Cookies with Royal Icing

Still, when you make the effort, it means a lot to people and they will always taste better than store-bought. These sure did. They were wonderfully flaky and the orange flavour was subtle but present and yummy.

You put cookies on a pretty plate, they will always be hard to resist, no matter what they look like.

CONTEST WINNERS

Halloween Candy Contest Winners

So onto the winners of the Saybon candy contest! They are:

Janet in Winnipeg who loves fruit jellies made with real fruit juice/flavour

Ducky-ducky3 who enjoys hard caramel candies with chocolate inside

Renee who is in love the Saybon, butter mint toffees

409cope loves gummy bears, raspberries any candy really

marce_03 who appreciates Mini O’Henry bars! Crunchy, gooey, yummmy!

I have now notified all the winners. Please respond as soon as possible!

CONGRATULATIONS EVERYONE!

Decorated Halloween Cookies with Royal Icing

Tomorrow I will be sharing photos of our Halloween on my blogs and then life will, sadly, return to normal. This year’s feast is going to be quite humble I think. I have already indulged quite enough for an entire year! Hope I have come up with enough treat ideas for you to make your Halloween extra spooky and delicious this year.

~ Suzie the Foodie

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  1. AvaDJ says

    October 31, 2011 at 2:06 pm

    The cookies look fabulous and I LOVE that cookie pan, what fun. I’m definitely no cookie artist but I think it’s fun to paint with food.

    Congrats to the candy winners, can’t wait to raid the kids’ bags tonite hahaha…

    Happy Halloween Suzie, have a fun filled and spooky day and night.

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  2. Kenora says

    October 31, 2011 at 6:49 pm

    I love the cookies, Suzie! I don’t like fussing with a lot of details most of the time, but sometimes I will put in the time. I remember one year I made these spider cookies for a Halloween party my ex and I were hosting; the cookies were 2 balls cooked together, then I had to cut up string licorice for legs and stick 8 pieces into each cookie… there were at least 2 dozen! They went over well, but I haven’t made them since. LOL!

    Blessed Samhain to you and R, Suzie.

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  3. Shell says

    November 1, 2011 at 1:42 am

    Happy Halloween, Suzie. I’m sitting next to my altar as I write this. I can see the waxing moon outside my window. I can feel all that beautiful energy flow. Hope you do too.

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  4. Carla says

    November 1, 2011 at 3:51 am

    Suzie…
    I enjoy your blog so much. I have given you a lovely blog award. Please pick it up at http://takingbackmylifemakingitmyown.blogspot.com/2011/10/day-145-spook-ta-boo-lar-day.html

    Enjoy!!
    Carla

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  5. Janet says

    November 2, 2011 at 12:10 am

    Hi Suzie – I am so excited about winning the coupon and can’t wait to try the candy…they sound yummy!

    Thanks for sharing your thoguhts and experiences with us. If want to read an amazing blog on decorating cookies this one is amazing. Like you she shows the good and the not-so-good. 🙂 http://bakeat350.blogspot.com/

    Janet

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