Day of the Dead Cookies Recipe Easy

These sugar cookies are the best and cutest way to celebrate the Day of the Dead. Our classic sugar cookie holds its shape perfectly and we love of our royal icing for all of our decorating needs. Use your favorite colors and decorate each skull to your own desire. We feel like Day of the Dead cookies are like snowflakes, not a single one is the same as the next. We merely view our cookies as a guideline for you! As always, we recommend baking your cookies with unsalted butter, but if you want to use salted butter instead simply omit the added salt in the recipe!

Prep tips: The sugar cookie dough can be made up to 3 days in advance and kept in the refrigerator. You can also bake the cookies off ahead of time and freeze them until ready to decorate. The cookies will keep in the freezer for up to 3 months!

If you're looking for some halloween fun you can make our Ghost Cookies!

Have you made these yet? Let us know how it went in the comments below!

Yields: 30

Prep Time: 0 hours 20 mins

Total Time: 3 hours 0 mins

For the cookies:

3 c.

all-purpose flour, plus more for surface

1 tsp.

baking powder

1/2 tsp.

kosher salt

1 c.

(2 sticks) butter, softened

1 c.

granulated sugar

1

large egg

1 tbsp.

milk

1 tsp.

pure vanilla extract

For the icing:

5 c.

powdered sugar

6 tbsp.

milk, plus more for thinning

1/4 c.

light corn syrup

1/4 tsp.

pure vanilla extract

Black food coloring

Teal food coloring

Orange food coloring

Green food coloring

Purple food coloring

Yellow food coloring

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1. In a large bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt and set aside.
2. In another large bowl, beat butter and sugar until fluffy and pale in color. Add egg, milk, and vanilla and beat until combined, then add flour mixture gradually until totally combined.
3. Shape into a disk and wrap in plastic. Refrigerate 1 hour.
4. When ready to roll, preheat oven to 350º and line two baking sheets with parchment paper. Lightly flour a clean work surface and roll out dough until 1/8" thick. Using a skull cookie cutter, cut out shapes and transfer to prepared baking sheets. Freeze 10 minutes (so your shapes hold while baking!).
5. Bake cookies until edges are lightly golden, 10 to 12 minutes. Let cool completely.
6. Meanwhile make icing: In a medium bowl, combine powdered sugar, milk, corn syrup, and vanilla. Add about a quarter of the icing to a piping bag fitted with a small round tip. Outline edges of cookies.
7. Pour about half of remaining icing into another medium bowl and thin with 1 teaspoon of milk at a time until a good flooding consistency. Add to another piping bag fitted with a small round tip. Pipe icing into centers of cookies to fill completely with icing.
8. Divide remaining icing into 6 separate bowls and dye them black, teal, orange, green, purple, and yellow.
9. Place colors into separate piping bags fitted with a small round tip and pipe decorative faces onto cookies.

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