Halloween Sugar Cookies
After going on a long walk to the park, the kids and I made this easy recipe for Halloween sugar cookies from my Betty Crocker cookbook. The kids enjoyed using the spooky Halloween cookie cutters and watching their cookies bake. After the sugar cookies cooled, they happily frosted and decorated their cookies for nearly an hour, and it was neat to see how proud they were of their masterpieces! This easy Halloween sugar cookie recipe was a fun afternoon project with my kids, and they tasted delicious.
Halloween Sugar Cookies
Cookies:
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1½ cups of powdered sugar
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1 cup of butter, softened
- 1 egg
- 1½ tsp vanilla
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2½ cups of flour
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1 tsp baking soda
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1 tsp cream of tartar
Other Ingredients:
- Frosting
- Sprinkles
- Chocolate chips
How to Make Halloween Sugar Cookies
Using a hand mixer or stand mixer, beat the powdered sugar, butter, egg, and vanilla until creamy and smooth.
Combine the flour, baking soda, and cream of tartar.
Gradually add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients until well combined.
Cover the dough very well and refrigerate for 1-2 hours.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Roll the dough to ½ inch thick on a lightly floured surface.
Cut cookies into whatever shapes you desire.
Make sure everyone gets a turn!
Place them on a baking sheet and bake for 7-8 minutes or until the edges are light golden brown.
Cool cookies on the baking sheet for a minute before transferring them to a cooling rack.
Allow the cookies to completely cool before frosting them.
Once the cookies are frosted, let your little ones decorate to their heart’s content. I let mine decorate with anything I had in the baking cupboard.
I can’t tell you how much fun they had and how much I enjoyed watching them. Both my kids said they were the best cookies ever. I must admit they were pretty tasty.
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Equipment
Ingredients
- 1½ cups of powdered sugar
- 1 cup of butter softened
- 1 egg
- 1½ tsp vanilla
- 2½ cups of flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp cream of tartar
Other Ingredients:
- Frosting
- Sprinkles
- Chocolate chips
Instructions
- Using a hand mixer or stand mixer, beat the powdered sugar, butter, egg, and vanilla until creamy and smooth.
- Combine the flour, baking soda, and cream of tartar.
- Gradually add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients until well combined.
- Cover the dough very well and refrigerate for 1-2 hours.
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Roll the dough to ½ inch thick on a lightly floured surface.
- Cut cookies into whatever shapes you desire.
- Make sure everyone gets a turn!
- Place them on a baking sheet and bake for 7-8 minutes or until the edges are light golden brown.
- Cool cookies on the baking sheet for a minute before transferring them to a wire cooling rack. Allow the cookies to completely cool before frosting them.
- Once the cookies are frosted, let your little ones decorate to their heart's content. I let mine decorate with anything I had in the baking cupboard.
Seriously the little hands pic is just adorable. You know they just loved this.
This is (I think) my first time commenting on your blog, but I totally “stalk” it… and love it. You always have awesome but do-able recipes, and the pictures make me (literally) salivate. 🙂
The cookies look fantastic. Great job, kids! 🙂 Thanks for sharing!
Ooooh, I let out a mom sigh when I saw those little hands! What a great shot! And seeing them at their decorating stations, well, let me tell you it brought a huge smile to my face. Their cookies are adorable; how could they not be when created by such adorable chefs! Great post!
I don’t have kids, but making such cookies represents some of my fondest childhood memories. Someday your kids will realize how lucky they were to have a Mom who did such a wonderful thing for them.
what a perfect way to bond with your kids… they look so serious with their baking, and cute too 🙂
This is SO adorable, oh it sure looks like so much fun, brings back memories with my mum = ) I have been having trouble getting cream or tartar.. any replacement suggestions?
This is a beautiful hands-on way to teach children about the joy of baking!!! Your adorable children looked so focused doing this! How sweet!
Awwww- we usually do the exact same thing before Halloween and I use that exact same recipe- I love it. It’s the one my mom uses too.
And I enjoy your blog too- I’ve made a few of your soup recipes. (I love soup). Almost everything you make seems like something I would make! Keep the recipes coming. 😉
Your little children are just precious! I love making cut out cookies for Halloween-even more so than for Christmas. Can’t wait to do it with my little charges.
I love these! I can only imagine how much fun they had, and then reaping the benefits and eating them!
The picture with the little hands is so cute. They both look like they were having a terrific time! Great way to get them interested in the kitchen and taking ownership.
What a Joy!
What fun! Your kids are adorable and the cookies turned out great!
That is so adorable – how fun for you and them of course!! 🙂
Very cute!
Oh those small hands are so cute.
Ok that makes me want to do it! Meggies hands are looking so mature, look at those long fingers!
How fun! It is definately time to decorate sugar cookies for Halloween! It looks like you have some great helpers!
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aw thats cute. I love bakin with my neices-3 & 5, and my nephews-6 & 8. it's fun to see what they think of to do, decorating-wise. these look delicious!
These pics are too cute. I love seeing kids in the kitchen. Still working on my little guy.
I’m going to be making Halloween cookies with my 3 year old this week. I’m sure he will have tons of fun. The cookies your kids made are totally cute.
I could see the work of little hands in the very first picture. I know they enjoyed themselves immensely!
WAY TO GO, PAMELA. EVERYONE’S COMMENTS ARE RIGHT ON. THE BABIES HAND PICTURES ARE TERRIFIC. PROUD OF YOU AND THEM. LOVE, MOM
It’s fun to let your kids have free reign in the kitchen- every once in a while. I love the pics of their little hands. Very cute. We love sugar cookies.
BTW- we made your potstickers over the weekend. . . and ate all 60 of them in one sitting. Very yum.
I love the little hands pressing down on the cookie cutter. These pictures make me want my own little ones to make cookies with!
Don’t tell my husband. He’ll have a heart attack.
Think dogs can make cookies?
I love it when the kids have a hand in baking up a treat. This was a great post the the kids did a fantastic and very artistic job 😉 You have some budding pastry chefs on your hands.
i used to love it when my older sister and mom used to let me help them out with sugar cookies when i was younger…those cookies look delicious and your kids did a great job!
Cute! My boys love decorating sugar cookies too. These look like a ton of fun.
Im worried Lowen would just get in such a mess doing this – oh well!! Perhaps will let her loose….in the garden
your kids do good work! frankly, i think they did a better job than i could ever do! (i could never color inside the lines either…) 🙂
Your kids decorated those? Wow, good for them. They look perfect for the holiday, and very spooky 🙂
your kids are adorable!
Just found your blog! My mouth is watering as I’m looking at all of these fabulous recipes!
I love to bake with my children too. The Halloween cookies look fantastic, I bet they were thrilled with their work!
Aw my sugar cookies never look so great! Good for you guys, I bet that was super fun.
Love this Pam and really love these little hands making cookies, so cute!!!!! Remember my childs when were little, nice age! xxGloria
I used to do this every year with my kids when they were little, now that I see the picture of your kids doing it makes me miss mine just a little.
What fun! Makes me wish I lived closer to my little cousins so I could do this with them!
What a great post and I love the little hands pressing the cookies cutters! Makes me miss my kids being little. It goes by all too fast.
Are these soft sugar cookies, or hard ones?
Those cookies look so yummy…and your kids look so adorable…they seem to be enjoying it quite a bit:)
Your pics are so good but the one with the little hands is just wonderful. A real mouse stopper on TS. I love to have my grandchildren bake with me.
Hi!! Thank you for sharing all this wonderful recipes ….
My son had a great time making this halloween cookies today….i love your blog…your recipes are mouth watering 🙂