Start with your favorite shortbread or sugar cookies and then use your imagination to decorate them for Halloween! You don't need any special decorating skills to make these easy decorated Halloween shortbread cookies, just a few items from the decorator aisle at the grocery store or at a craft and hobby shop!Here's the recipe for decorated shortbread cookies. I also used royal icing from Family Spice which is linked in the NOTES section below.
decorator sprinklesjimmies, candy eyes, etc. Have fun shopping in the decorating aisle at your grocery store or craft and hobby store!
Instructions
Take stock of all your decorations and decide how you would like to combine them to decorate each cookie. Depending on how many different decorating ingredients you have, you can decorate all the cookies the same or make them all look different.
Cover your work space with a large sheet of parchment or use Counter Covers from Wilton. They're huge.
Arrange all your decorations in one place, being sure to use piping tips when necessary.
Have your baked and cooled cookies on a tray nearby so you can pick up each cookie, decorate it, and then carefully place it back on the tray.
For flooded cookies like the ghost cookies, outline the cookie with stiff royal icing and then flood the interior of the cookie with thinner icing. Add decor, sprinkles, sparkle gel, etc as you like.
Continue decorating the cookies as simply or as intricately as your time/talent/patience allows.
Once you have finished decorating each cookie, allow the royal icing ones to set up for 24 hours so the icing is completely hard. For any cookies you decorate with decorator icing and/or sparkle gel, arrange them in a single layer in a lidded container until time to serve.
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Notes
I use the royal icing recipe from Family Spice.Nutritionals are for 1 shortbread cookie without decoration.