• Happy Halloween!

  Filed under Dessert - Cookies
  Oct 31
  
  I hope that everyone has a wonderful, safe Halloween!!

  Sugar Cookies
  My mom’s recipe

  1/2 cup butter
  1 cup sugar
  2 eggs, well beaten
  1/2 teaspoon salt
  2 teaspoons baking powder
  1 teaspoon vanilla
  1 tablespoon milk
  2 – 2 1/2 cups flour

  Cream butter and sugar. Add in the eggs and mix well. Add the salt, baking powder, vanilla and milk. Add in flour, 1/2 cup at a time, until the dough is soft, but not sticky.

  Roll out and cut into shapes. Bake for 8 minutes at 375F.

  *The wonderful thing about this dough is that it doesn’t have to be refrigerated first. I did, but only about 20 minutes, and it rolled out perfectly.

  **My secret for making the perfect sugar cookie is to under-cook them by at least 1 minute. With these, I baked them 3 minutes, rotated the pans, then cooked 3 minutes longer. Then I let them sit on the hot baking sheet for about 2 minutes out of the oven.

  Butter Cream Icing
  from Lion House Desserts

  3/4 cup butter
  3/4 cup shortening
  4 2/3 cups powdered sugar
  1 1/2 teaspoons lemon juice
  1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
  1/3 cup water

  In a large mixing bowl, combine butter, shortening and sugar and beat until very creamy. Add lemon juice and vanilla. Mix until well blended. Add water and mix until very light.

  Decorating Icing – for Spider Web Cookies
  2 3/4 cups powdered sugar
  2 teaspoons vegetable shortening
  3 tablespoons water
  1 tablespoon corn syrup
  1/4 teaspoon vanilla

  Beat all ingredients well. To make spider web cookies, spread icing on cookies while they are still hot. Draw a circles (like a bullseye) on each cookie with black decorating gel, and using a toothpick, draw a line from the center out to the edge of the cookie. Repeat, making the spider web design.
  

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  17 Comments

17 Responses to “Happy Halloween!”

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   Cookie baker Lynn said on October 31st, 2007 at 11:17 pm

   Beautiful cookies! I especially love the spider web design.

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   Kevin said on November 1st, 2007 at 12:43 am

   Great looking cookies especially the spiderwebs.

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   glamah16 said on November 1st, 2007 at 1:10 am

   Love your spider web design.Great looking cookies.

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   Claire said on November 1st, 2007 at 2:16 am

   ALWAYS looking for a good sugar cookie recipe. These look yummy.

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   Kirsten said on November 1st, 2007 at 4:57 am

   Happy Halloween! Great looking cookies!!

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   Emilie said on November 1st, 2007 at 8:02 am

   Happy Halloween!!! I can’t see the picture, but the recipe sounds so great. I love icing.

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   Pinch My Salt said on November 1st, 2007 at 9:52 am

   I love the spider web ones! I am just now baking my halloween sugar cookies. They may be a day late but I couldn’t go without making them!

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   April said on November 1st, 2007 at 12:55 pm

   These look great! Hope you had a great Halloween!

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   Valli said on November 1st, 2007 at 3:27 pm

   These cookies look perfect for all the spook-tacular events over Hallowe’en. I went to a friends house where they had put up a haunted tent. The kids and kids at heart loved it!

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    Brilynn said on November 1st, 2007 at 4:08 pm

    So pretty!
    I was making spiderweb designs like that in our soup last night!

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    Abby said on November 1st, 2007 at 4:19 pm

    I’m a day late and a dollar short getting here, but Happy (belated) Halloween! Your cookies were gorgeous!

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    kellypea said on November 1st, 2007 at 5:56 pm

    Very nice! I haven’t made Halloween cookies in years. And sugar cookies are a fave around here.

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    JennDZ - The Leftover Queen said on November 2nd, 2007 at 11:20 am

    Such cute cookies! Hope you had a great Halloween, Deborah!

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    Glenna said on November 2nd, 2007 at 9:28 pm

    The spider webs are SO cute! I just love them!

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    Mansi Desai said on November 2nd, 2007 at 9:42 pm

    The cookies look great Deb! I made spider cupcakes for halloween and blogged about them! your design looks inviting, not spooky:) I could grab one right out of the pic!!

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    Francesca said on November 4th, 2007 at 5:54 pm

    very nice!

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    Michele said on October 20th, 2008 at 10:53 pm

    These cookies look delicious (and if I can re-create your beautiful spiderweb design, they’ll be perfect for Halloween!) Thanks so much for the recipe, Deborah! We are proud to have it in this week’s FoodieView Recipe Roundup.

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