Halloween cookies should not only be original, funny or intimidating, but also unusually tasty. These recipes will help to prepare desserts that will surprise every guest.

Halloween Cookies Witch's Fingers

This creepy-looking, but very tasty cookie is perfect for the holiday theme. From the specified amount of ingredients, 6–8 servings are obtained.

Very creepy Halloween cookies.

For cooking you will need:

  • 400 g flour;
  • 150 g butter;
  • 160 g of granulated sugar;
  • 5 g baking baking powder;
  • 1 egg
  • 5 g of vanilla sugar;
  • 3 g of salt;
  • 20 ml of red berry jam;
  • 50 g of peeled pumpkin seeds.

Step by step recipe.

  1. Beat the melted butter with sugar.
  2. Add the egg and beat again.
  3. Bulk components are combined: vanilla sugar, salt, baking powder, sifted flour. Add to the egg-oil mass.
  4. Knead the dough. It should turn out to be moderately dense and perfectly smooth.
  5. The dough is wrapped with cling film and placed in the refrigerator "to rest" for 25 minutes.
  6. “Witch's fingers” are molded from the chilled mass: they roll up sticks the size of a regular finger. More curious and frightening look crooked products.
  7. With the help of a toothpick, strips imitating interphalangeal folds are drawn on each “finger”.
  8. At the base of each product is inserted pumpkin seed so that it resembles a nail.
  9. Biscuit fingers are baked in the oven at 180 ° C for about 20 minutes (oriented to a golden crust).
  10. Pumpkin seeds are carefully removed from the finished cookies, the place under them is smeared with a drop of bright jam, and the seed is attached back.

Sweet treat “Pumpkin Jack”

The recipe for tasty and funny cookies will surely appeal to children and adults who prefer beautiful mouth-watering dishes even on Halloween. The number of ingredients is calculated on 26 pieces.

Required Products:

  • 330 g of flour;
  • 120 g butter;
  • 2 eggs;
  • 2 g of salt;
  • 40 ml of liquid honey;
  • 200 g of raw pumpkin pulp;
  • 40 g of sugar;
  • 1 g of vanillin.

Cooking method.

  1. Oil is removed from the refrigerator in advance to make it softer.
  2. Shake the eggs at room temperature with a whisk.
  3. Oil with whipped eggs is salted, covered with flour, mixed.
  4. Knead the elastic dough. If it sticks to the palms, add more flour.
  5. To make it easier to work with the dough, it is wrapped with cling film and put in the refrigerator for half an hour.
  6. Prepare the filling: pumpkin pulp is mashed in a food processor, mixed with 20 g of flour, vanilla and sugar.
  7. Then a thin (2 mm thick) flat cake is rolled out and round billets are cut from it with a glass. Half of them are laid aside.
  8. In the remaining flat cakes, holes are made with a knife: eyes, noses and smiles of future “pumpkins”.
  9. In the center of whole circles put a spoonful of pumpkin filling. The base is covered with muzzles from the dough. The edges are carefully plugged with a fork.
  10. The oven is heated to 180 ° C and put in it a baking sheet with blanks for 14 minutes. If pumpkin cookies are lightly browned earlier - the cooking time is reduced.

Tip: the raw pumpkin filling in this recipe can be replaced with thick pumpkin jam.

Gingerbread Cookie

Cute classic Christmas little men can be a frightening dessert for Halloween if you decorate them with chocolate spiders.

Fragrant and tasty cookies for the holiday.

To prepare 20 pieces you will need:

  • 2 egg yolks;
  • 200 g of flour;
  • 70 g of high fat butter;
  • 50 g of sugar;
  • 40 ml of honey;
  • 40 g of powdered ginger;
  • 5 g of ground cinnamon;
  • 2 g of soda;
  • 50 g of white and dark chocolate.

Cooking technology.

  1. All dry ingredients are combined.
  2. The yolks are mixed with honey.
  3. Slightly melted butter is kneaded with a fork and connected to the rest of the components. Stir until smooth.
  4. Knead a dense, non-sticky dough. It is cleaned in a sealed container and placed in a cold place for 1 hour.
  5. The chilled dough is rolled thinner and, with the help of curly molds, little men are cut out of it.
  6. The resulting gingerbread cookie for Halloween is placed on a baking sheet with parchment paper and put in an oven warmed up to 180 ° C.
  7. After 10 minutes, the baking sheet with cookies is removed from the oven and the decor is applied. To do this, use a toothpick and chocolate melted in a water bath: the frightened faces of the little men are drawn in white, and the spiders in dark.
  8. The delicacy is again sent to the oven for another 2-3 minutes.

Halloween Scarecrow Cookies

Baking according to this recipe is prepared very quickly, and it takes a little patience and time to apply the decor. The result is a colorfully decorated dessert that will decorate the festive table for Halloween.

Ingredients for 13 pieces:

  • 90 g creamy margarine;
  • 130 g of sugar;
  • 160 g of flour;
  • 1 yolk;
  • 300 g of powdered sugar;
  • 1 g of vanillin;
  • 2 g of cinnamon;
  • 2 raw protein;
  • food colors (green, orange, black);
  • 13 wooden skewers will also be required.

Step-by-step instruction.

  1. In a food processor, flour, melted margarine, yolk, spices, sugar are mixed.
  2. Dough is made from the resulting mass.
  3. A scarecrow pattern of 10 cm long and 8.5 cm wide is printed on thick paper.
  4. A roll of 0.7 mm thick is rolled out from the dough. A cooked sketch is laid on top and a scarecrow figure is cut with a sharp knife.
  5. Skewers are inserted into the base of the raw billets.
  6. Cookies are baked at 170 ° C for 12 minutes.
  7. Icing is prepared: the proteins are mixed with powdered sugar until smooth, the resulting mass is divided into 3 parts, each tinted with the prepared dye.
  8. On the browned blanks with a thin brush with black icing, the contours of the future drawing are drawn.
  9. With the help of a pastry bag with a nozzle, the scarecrow's clothes are painted in green, his head is pumpkin in orange, and his hat, hands and face are drawn in black. So that the shades do not mix, after applying one paint you need to wait 20 minutes.
  10. Scarecrow cookies are left to completely dry the glaze in a dry place for 10 hours.

Sand treat

Tasty and easy-to-cook cookies can be decorated for every taste.

Essentials for 20 servings:

  • 250 g of flour;
  • 2 yolks;
  • 170 g of sweet cream butter;
  • 100 g of sugar;
  • 2 squirrels;
  • 100 g of powdered sugar;
  • 3 ml of lemon juice;
  • food colors to choose from.

Cooking steps.

  1. The oil is pre-softened, mixed with yolks, sugar, whipped with a hand blender.
  2. Gradually filling the flour, knead the dough.
  3. While the dough is “resting” in the refrigerator, the icing is prepared: whisk the whites with powdered sugar, add a few drops of lemon juice and the chosen dye.
  4. Thin cake is rolled out from the dough and figures are cut out with various molds.
  5. Shortbread cookies are baked on parchment at 180 ° C for 12-15 minutes (until golden).
  6. Themed decor is applied with glaze.

Halloween Cookies Design Ideas

Original thematic desserts will surely set you in a festive mood on All Saints Day. On Halloween, you can decorate cookies so that they look inedible and even inspire horror in the guests. Ideal for this day figures of bats, ghosts, skeletons, pumpkins, cut off parts of the body, spiders. For decoration, you can use food markers, glaze, sprinkles, melted chocolate, fruits, nuts.

Fantasy is the main source of decoration for original cookies.

Halloween utensils, tablecloths, napkins will help to create the general atmosphere of the holiday. Near vases with cookies you can place candle-pumpkins, fixtures in the form of ghosts, small skulls, as well as other characters that are relevant to the topic.

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