Stacked Sugar Witch Cookies With Video Tutorial For Halloween

These stacked witch cookies are colorful, festive and ever so cute! They're perfect for a Halloween party and would make such a great addition to any dessert table.

They're even great to hand out for trick or treating. Plus, this royal icing tastes like it came from a professional bakery.

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Cute Stacked Witch Cookies With Colorful Icing

Everyone is sure to love these witch cookies , and they'll love you for making them!

Witch hat cookies are a whimsical novelty cookie. Here, you'll find out how to make them from scratch.

Decorating these cookies takes a little skill, but check out the video at the top of this post for a full icing tutorial for this cookie recipe.

Ingredients for Stacked Witch Cookies

Here's what you'll need to make these cookies. You'll find a quick list here. Exact quantities are found in the recipe card at the bottom of this post.

For the Cookies

• butter - softened
• sugar
• egg
• vanilla extract
• all-purpose flour
• salt

For the Royal Icing

• warm water
• meringue powder
• powdered sugar
• Karo syrup
• Food coloring gels - black, orange, purple and lime green

Equipment for Decorating Cookies

• 6 Pastry or Piping Bags
• 5 Decorating Tip Size 4
• 1 Medium Round Tip Cake Decorating Tip Size 20
• 6 Coupler Set for Icing
• 1 Stacked Witch Cookie Cutter

Directions for Stacked Witch Sugar Cookies

Firstly, let's make the cookie dough.

This is a butter sugar cookie mix with vanilla extract for extra rich flavoring.

Cream the butter, sugar and egg in the bowl of a stand mixer. Use the whisk attachment to add as much air as possible to the blend.

Sift the flour and salt into a separate bowl. Alternatively you can mix it with a balloon whisk instead of sifting it.

Add the vanilla extract to the butter mixture and blend well together.

Gradually add the flour to the butter mixture and mix on low speed until blended and a dough forms.

Place a large piece of parchment paper on the kitchen counter, and sprinkle with flour.

Place half of the cookie dough at a time on the parchment paper. Use a floured rolling pin to roll out the dough to a thickness of about half an inch.

Use a stacked witch cookie cutter to cut out separate cookie pieces. Place each piece on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper.

Repeat with the second half of the cookie dough.

Gather up the dough scraps and re roll to make more cookies.

Bake at 350 degrees for 10 to 12 minutes, or until the cookies begin to turn golden brown around the edges.

Remove from the oven to a wire rack, and cool completely.

Creamy Royal Icing

To make the royal icing place the warm water and meringue powder in the bowl of a stand mixer. Blend together with the whisk attachment, and slowly pour in the Karo syrup.

Add the powdered sugar, about 2 cups at a time, and mix on low, until all the Powdered sugar has been added.

Intermittently, stop the mixer and scrape down the sides of the mixing bowl with a flexible rubber spatula as needed. Blend the icing again until it is smooth and creamy.

Separate the icing into five equal portions in five different bowls. There should be about half a cup of icing in each bowl.

Add about 5 drops of each food coloring gel to four of the bowls. Mix well to blend the color throughout the icing and to achieve uniform coloring.

Leave the fifth bowl of royal icing without any coloring. This will form the witch's white tights on the leg cookie pieces.

Place small icing tips in 5 pastry or piping bags.

Add each color of icing to each of the five pastry bags. You'll have five bags with small decorating tips, one green, one purple, one orange and one black, and one white.

Place the large tip in another pastry bag and add about quarter of a cup of lime green icing.

This will be used to create the bubbling cauldron effect. I encourage you to watch the video linked to this post, to see the icing process in full detail.

Pipe icing around the outside of each of the cookies, and then fill in the center in the desired color.

Add sprinkles to the top of the witch cauldron cookie.

Allow about 1 hour for the icing to completely set.

Then all you have to do is serve and enjoy these cookies.

Recipe Card for Witch Cookies

Here's a video tutorial to help with decorating these adorable Halloween cookies.

Here's the recipe card which you can print for your kitchen files.

Happy Halloween baking.

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