Day Of The Dead Cookies
Rating
We CAN'T stop watching these Day Of The Dead Cookies being decorated
Ingredients
- FOR THE COOKIES:
- 3 c. all-purpose flour, plus more for surface
- 1 tsp. baking powder
- ½ tsp. kosher salt
- 1 c. (2 sticks) butter, softened
- 1 c. granulated sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 tbsp. milk
- 1 tsp. pure vanilla extract
- FOR THE ICING:
- 5 c. powdered sugar
- 6 tbsp. milk, plus more for thinning
- ¼ c. light corn syrup
- ¼ tsp. pure vanilla extract
- Black food coloring
- Teal food coloring
- Orange food coloring
- Green food coloring
- Purple food coloring
- Yellow food coloring
Instructions
- In a large bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt and set aside.
- In another large bowl, beat butter and sugar until fluffy and pale in color. Add egg, milk, and vanilla and beat until combined, then add flour mixture gradually until totally combined.
- Shape into a disk and wrap in plastic. Refrigerate 1 hour.
- When ready to roll, preheat oven to 350º and line two baking sheets with parchment paper. Lightly flour a clean work surface and roll out dough until ⅛” thick. Using a skull cookie cutter, cut out shapes and transfer to prepared baking sheets. Freeze 10 minutes (so your shapes hold while baking!).
- Bake cookies until edges are lightly golden, 10 to 12 minutes. Let cool completely.
- Meanwhile make icing: In a medium bowl, combine powdered sugar, milk, corn syrup, and vanilla. Add about a quarter of the icing to a piping bag fitted with a small round tip. Outline edges of cookies.
- Pour about half of remaining icing into another medium bowl and thin with 1 teaspoon of milk at a time until a good flooding consistency. Add to another piping bag fitted with a small round tip. Pipe icing into centers of cookies to fill completely with icing.
- Divide remaining icing into 6 separate bowls and dye them black, teal, orange, green, purple, and yellow.
- Place colors into separate piping bags fitted with a small round tip and pipe decorative faces onto cookies.
