Scary Skeleton Cookies

Looking for some Halloween fun? Try making these easy scary skeleton cookies!

Ingredients:

  • 3 cups flour
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • 1 egg
  • 2 sticks butter
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 2 packages vanilla sugar (or replace with 1 tsp lemon extract)
  • white fondant
  • black icing
  • candy eyes
  • a sprinkling of icing sugar for rolling out of fondant

Instructions:

Mix butter, sugar, egg, vanilla and vanilla sugar. Alternate adding a cup of flour and a tsp baking powder until the final cup flour. Then mix with hands until dough is formed.

Roll out on floured surface and cut out cookies.

Bake at 350 degrees for 9 minutes.

Roll out fondant on a thin sprinkling of icing sugar. Using same cookie cutter, cut out fondant and place on top of warm cookie.

Bake another 2 minutes at 300 degrees so that fondant sticks to cookie.

Decorate using black icing and candy eyes!

Package your cookies in plastic bags if you’d like or just enjoy!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!