Halloween Ghost Cookies recipe

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Ingredients

1 cup butter
1 ½ cups confectioners' sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 ½ cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon cream of tartar
¼ teaspoon salt
1 cup confectioners' sugar
2 teaspoons milk, plus more if needed
2 teaspoons light corn syrup, or more as needed
¼ teaspoon vanilla extract
1 (12 ounce) package miniature semisweet chocolate chips

Nutrition Info

63.5 calories
carbohydrate: 8.6 g
cholesterol: 7.5 mg
fat: 3.3 g
fiber: 0.3 g
protein: 0.6 g
saturatedFat: 2 g
servingSize: -
sodium: 36.4 mg
sugar: 5.4 g
transFat: : -
unsaturatedFat: : -

Directions

  1. Beat butter in a bowl with an electric mixer until creamy. Add 1 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar gradually, beating until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and 1 teaspoon vanilla extract.

  2. Combine flour, baking soda, cream of tartar, and salt in a second bowl. Add flour mixture to the creamed butter mixture and mix to combine. Wrap in plastic wrap and chill in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour.

  3. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).

  4. Dust a work surface with flour and roll out dough into a thin circle. Cut out tulip shapes, if your tulip cookie cutter has a stem, cut the stem off with a knife, so you have a stemless tulip shape. Arrange cut-out cookies on ungreased baking sheets.

  5. Bake in the preheated oven until lightly browned, 6 to 8 minutes. Remove from baking sheets carefully and transfer to wire racks. Cool completely, about 15 minutes.

  6. Stir 1 cup confectioners' sugar and milk together in a small bowl until smooth. Beat in corn syrup and 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract until icing is smooth and glossy. Add more corn syrup if icing is too thick.

  7. Spoon icing into a piping bag with a small plain tip. Pipe icing around the edge of each cookie to create a border. Fill in the middle completely with icing. Stick 2 chocolate chip cookies into the wet icing for the eyes. Let cookies stand until icing dries, about 1 hour.

Recipe Yield

90 cookies

Recipe Note

All you need for these ghost cookies is a cookie cutter in the shape of a tulip and then turn it upside-down - if you don't have that one, you can easily freehand the ghost shapes. These are great giveaways for trick-or-treaters and a nice alternative to all the candy.

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