How to Make Day of the Dead Sugar Cookies

In a large bowl or with your stand mixer cream the granulated sugar and butter until it is fluffy. If using the stand mixer it will take about 5 minutes.

Once the sugar and butter is creamed together, add in the egg and vanilla extract.

In a medium sized bowl mix the flour, baking powder, salt. Use a whisk to mix everything together thoroughly.

Slowly add the flour mixture to the sugar, butter, egg, and vanilla extract mixture. Mix everything until well incorporated.

Put half of the freshly made dough between two sheets of parchment paper and roll it out to 1/4 inch thick.

Repeat with the rest of the dough.

Put the rolled dough including the parchment paper, on a cookie sheet and refrigerate for 10 minutes or longer.

Your dough will be chilled and ready to cut and bake.

Cut your cookie dough out with cookie cutter, any scraps of cookie dough you can re-roll together to form a new ball then roll it out and placed back in the refrigerator until its cooled and then you can repeat the steps with that.

Bake the cookies at 350° for 10 to 15 minutes.

Transfer the cookies to cooling rack and allow them to completely cool.

While the cookies are cooling prepare your royal icing. Thin the Icing to a 20-second consistency.

Transfer the royal icing to the pastry bag with the tip in it.

Pipe on the outline of the skull and pipe on the bones.

Pour the icing back into a bowl and thin the icing down to a 6-second icing. Transfer the icing back into the pastry bag.

Flood in the skull with the icing.

Allow the royal icing to dry for 24 hours.

Using your edible marks color your skeletons with fun patterns.