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Halloween Sugar Cookies

Cook Time12 minutes
Course: Desserts
Cuisine: American
Keyword: Easy Sugar Cooke Recipe, Sugar Cookie Recipe, Sugar Cookies
Calories:
Author: Terri

Ingredients

For the Cookies:

For the Frosting:

Instructions

For the Cookies

  • Preheat oven to 325°
  • In a medium bowl, mix together, butter, shortening, sugar and egg.
  • Add vanilla and milk. Mix well until combined.
  • Gradually stir in flour and baking soda scraping down the sides of bowl.
  • Roll out a small amount of dough on a floured surface to about ¼″ thick and cut into shapes.
  • Place on cookie sheets and bake until edges just start to brown. Approximately 10-12 minutes.
  • Let sit on cookie sheets for a few minutes then transfer to cooling rack.
  • Repeat until all dough is used.

For the Frosting

  • In a medium bowl, cream butter, milk, and vanilla together.
  • Gradually stir in powder sugar and beat until smooth and creamy.
  • Put white frosting in two bowls, add orange food coloring to one of the bowls, stir.
  • Frost cooled cookies.
  • Decorate with sprinkles.

Notes

Here’s a little cookie tip for you from my friend Nancy…. When rolling out your cookie dough, mix flour and powdered sugar 50/50. Use this mixture and your cookies will taste much better and not leave a flour taste in your mouth.