You don’t need a whole bunch of fancy cookie cutters and a pastry-school diploma to make super-creative, super-spooky cookies! Start off with basic round sugar cookies, grab three colors of royal icing and you’re in business. But know this in advance: each of these designs requires a few hours of drying time, so plan accordingly.
The (Not So) Menacing Mummy
Level: Easy
Make no bones about it, this cookie will be a fast favorite. (Especially because you don’t have to be a pro-piper to get that wrapped-up look.)
What You Need
Instructions
1. Make the Eyes
Fill a disposable piping bag fitted with the medium round piping tip with some green royal icing. Pipe two small “blobs” in the middle of your circle cookie. Quickly place a black sugar pearl on top of each blob, these will be your mummy’s eyes!
2. Pipe the Wrappings
With a bag of white royal icing fitted with a small petal tip, pipe a series of long, flat strips of icing across the cookie. Let set for a few hours.
Good to Know: You can make a mini mummy cake to match!
The Scaredy-Spider
Level: Easy
The bright-colored web makes these creepy crawlies really pop!
What You’ll Need
Instructions
1. Add Royal Icing Base
Outline and flood your cookie with the green royal icing.
2. Pipe in White
While the green icing is still wet, pipe concentric white circles of royal icing. Before the icing dries, drag a cocktail stick through the circles of icing in multiple places, moving from the center of the cookie outward to make the web.
Leave the cookie to crust over for an hour before moving to the next step. (If you try to pipe the spider while the icing is still wet, you’ll end up with a black puddle that seeps into the other colors. Not good!)
3. Pipe the Spider
With a bag of piping-consistency black royal icing with a small round piping tip, pipe the spider’s eight legs. Then, pipe the body and head between the legs using a larger round piping tip.
The Creepy Cauldron
Level: Easy
Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble! This one scores extra points for originality.
What You Need
Instructions
1. Flood a Half Circle
Outline and flood a half circle of black royal icing onto your cookie.
2. Pipe the Details
With the same black royal icing and piping tip, add in the cauldron details. You need two small circles for the legs and two teardrop shapes at the edges of the top. Leave to crust over for an hour.
3. Add the Bubbles
With the piping-consistency green and white royal icings, pipe a series of different sized pearls or bubbles on the upper half of the cookie. Don’t forget to add a few bubbles foaming down the side of the cauldron, too! And if you’re feeling really extra, add some edible glitter or luster dust on top of the bubbles.
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