10 ideas for Halloween cookies that are as delicious as they are scary

On October 31, more than any other time, we pull out all the stops for a Halloween cake decoration that is as scary as it is successful. Whether you opt for a miniature, monumental, crunchy, or creamy version, all sweets are possible, like cupcakes, cookies, or candies.

How to make cookies for Halloween?

Before moving on to the creative phase, you first need a good cookie dough base.
To do this, we detailed in this article how to make the best chocolate cookies in the world (just that). However, we advise you to make your dough without the chocolate chips to decorate them more easily. Then, you are free to use sugared almonds, bloody jams and sprinkles as decoration.
To vary the sweets, you can also prepare Halloween shortbread cookies. Use pumpkin, ghost or skull-shaped cookie cutters to make your macabre creations and decorate them according to your inspiration.

To start making your Halloween cookies, we offer you three easy tutorials.

Spider cookies

Ingredients and materials needed

• cookie dough
• large chocolate balls like Kit Kat Balls® or Malteser®
• 2 squares of dark chocolate or a chocolate pastry pen
• icing sugar
• water

Before baking your cookies, press with your thumb in the middle of each cookie to make a slight hole. Then cook them according to the recipe instructions.
Remove from the oven, place a chocolate ball in the cavity and let them cool.
Once the cookies have cooled, melt the chocolate and shape the legs using a piping bag or use a pastry pen.
To make the eyes, mix a little water with icing sugar. Take the icing with a toothpick and form the whites of the eyes. Let everything dry and make a black dot in each eye with the melted chocolate.

Monster cookies

Ingredients and materials needed

• cookie dough colored with cocoa or vegetable charcoal
• green, orange and red chocolate dragees
• white sugar paste
• food grade felt

Incorporate the chocolate dragees into the cookie dough. Mix everything by hand and especially not in a food processor to avoid breaking them.
Form cookie balls and bake them as directed in the recipe.
Meanwhile, spread the sugar paste into a thin sheet.
Using a small plain pastry tip, cut out discs of sugar paste. Draw the pupils with the food marker.
Wait until your cookies have completely cooled and stick the sugar paste eyes on them. You can lightly moisten the underside of the eyes with water to make them stick to the cookies.

Halloween cookies to decorate

Ingredients and materials needed

• shortbread cookie dough
• icing sugar
• egg whites
• orange, black, and green powder or gel coloring
• food decorating pens
• Halloween cookie cutters in the shape of a pumpkin, spider, skull, or even a witch’s hat

Spread the dough on a sheet of baking paper using a rolling pin until it is 5 mm thick. Cut out the biscuits with the cookie cutters and bake them. Leave the cookies to cool on a rack.
In a bowl, mix the egg whites with the icing sugar.
Divide the mixture into three small bowls and add the colorings to each, mix and transfer each icing into a piping bag.
Cover your shortbread with icing by first tracing their outlines, then filling them.
Let dry and finish decorating with the edible pens.

Now that you have mastered these recipes, we leave you with 10 original ideas for cookies that are as terrifying as they are delicious.