Description
These Halloween Pumpkin Cookies are delightful roll-out sugar cookies decorated with vibrant colored icings to resemble whimsical pumpkin faces. Perfect for festive celebrations, these cookies combine a classic pumpkin shape with creative icing designs in orange, green, black, red, and white colors to bring a playful Halloween spirit to your cookie platter.
Ingredients
Cookie Dough:
- Roll-Out Cookie Dough (quantity as per recipe instructions)
Icing Colors:
- Kelly Green Icing Color, 1 oz.
- Black Icing Color, 1 oz.
- Orange Icing Color, 1 oz.
- Christmas Red Icing Color, 1 oz.
- Red-Red Icing Color, 1 oz.
- White Decorator Icing, 4.5 lb.
Instructions
- Bake Cookies: Prepare the roll-out cookie dough following the recipe’s instructions. Roll out the dough evenly and use a pumpkin-shaped cookie cutter to cut out the pumpkin shapes. Place cookies on a baking sheet and bake according to dough recipe directions. Once baked, allow the cookies to cool completely before decorating.
- Tint Icing: Mix the Red-Red and Christmas Red icing colors to achieve the desired red hue. Then tint 1/4 cup of icing red with the combined colors. Tint 1 cup of icing orange using the orange icing color. Tint 1/4 cup of icing green using the Kelly Green icing color. Tint 1/2 cup of icing black using the black icing color. Ensure the colors are well mixed and vibrant.
- Decorate Cookies: Using a spatula, apply the orange tinted icing evenly over each cooled pumpkin cookie and smooth the surface. Fit a decorating bag with a coupler and fill it with black icing. Prepare three additional decorating bags with tip 5 filled separately with green, white, and red icing. Use the green icing to pipe stems on top of the pumpkins. Use black, red, and white icings from their respective bags to pipe facial features such as eyes and noses onto the pumpkins. Switch the black icing bag’s tip to a smaller tip 3 and pipe detailed features like teeth and eyebrows on each pumpkin to add expression and character.
Notes
- Ensure cookies are completely cool before icing to prevent melting.
- Use gel food coloring to achieve vibrant icing colors without thinning the icing.
- Practice piping on parchment paper before decorating cookies for better control.
- Store decorated cookies in an airtight container to maintain freshness.
- This recipe yields approximately one dozen cookies depending on cookie cutter size.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cookie
- Calories: 150
- Sugar: 12g
- Sodium: 90mg
- Fat: 6g
- Saturated Fat: 2g
- Unsaturated Fat: 3g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 22g
- Fiber: 0.5g
- Protein: 1g
- Cholesterol: 10mg
