This year is our very first time ever throwing a Halloween Party.

I made these sugar cookies for our table but also will pack some for goodie bags for the kids to take home 😀

I am still not good in decorating, so the decoration is not as smooth as I would like them to be 😛

Ingredients

2 c flour
1/4 tsp BSoda
1/4 tsp salt
3/4 c butter room temperature
2/3 c sugar
1 egg
2 tsp vanilla essence/extract

Instructions

Preheat oven 350 F
Combine flour, soda and salt, set aside
Beat butter and sugar and gradually add in sugar, until fluffy, on high speed for 4 minutes
Add in egg and 1 tsp of the vanilla essence
Reduce to low and add in flour gradually, until combined
Form into a disk, wrap in plastic and chill it for half hour
On floured surface, roll out dough and cut using Halloween themed cookie cutters and place on ungreased cookie sheet
Bake for 9-11 mins, cool for 5 mins on pan then remove from pans onto cooling rack.

Royal Icing (you can use this one if not Alton Brown’s royal icing – I love Alton Brown’s but for the cookies on this, I use this following recipe)

1 bag of icing sugar (16 oz)
3 tbsp meringue powder
7 tbsp warm water
food colors

At low speed, beat icing sugar, meringue powder and water until glossy.Beat in remaining vanilla essence

Divide among bowls and tin as desired and start decorating your cookies!

You can always add warm water 1 tbsp at a time to make the royal icing more runny if you think it’s too thick.

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