Looking for a gross but tasty Halloween cookie? These Zombie brain cookies are gross and tasty! Made with no spread sugar cookie dough and homemade royal icing these halloween cookies are perfectly gross!
Zombie Brain Cookies
I am going to eat the brains!!! On the plus side they will taste very yummy! Zombie brain cookies will sure be a hit at your next Halloween party or just for you to enjoy while you watch your favorite zombie show.
These easy halloween sugar cookies are so much fun to make and look amazing set out for a Halloween Party. Yes I know they look like they are going to be hard to make and that when reading the steps to make the royal icing can be a bit scary. However once you start working with the royal icing it will make complete sense and not be hard at all.
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Tips for making this recipe
Use Homemade Sugar Cookie dough. Check out here on how to learn everything you need to know on making sugar cookies . You will want to use the perfect sugar cookie dough recipe, this recipe makes amazing no spread sugar cookies. Once you shape them, they keep their shape even after they are baked!
Use homemade royal icing. If you have never made royal icing or cookies with royal icing be sure to read up on everything you need to know about royal icing for making these cookies. It will explain the different thicknesses of royal icing, and what everything means when you are decorating cookies with royal icing.
Measuring royal icing speeds. This part may sound scary when I say something like 20 second icing or 6 second icing but it is actually very simple. When you pick up a spoonful of the icing from the bowl and drizzle it downward off the spoon, count as it absorbs back into the bowl of frosting if it takes about 20 seconds that is 20 second icing if it takes about 10 seconds it’s thinner and is called 10 second icing and it keeps going as you add more water to thin the frosting. When you are thinning frosting only add 1 teaspoon of water at a time and then mix well.
Allow the cookies to cool completely before frosting. It is very important that your sugar cookies are completely cooled before decorating them.
Zombie Brain Cookies Ingredients
- Sugar cookie dough
- Royal icing
- 30 Pecans or walnuts
- Red food gel coloring
Zombie Brain Cookies Supplies
- Rolling pin
- Rolling pin bands
- Parchment paper or Silpat mat
- Sheet pan
- Circle cookie cutter
- Scriber needle or toothpick
- Piping tips
- Couplers
- Pastry bags or squeeze bottles
How to Make Zombie Brain Cookies
Bake the cookies and allow them to cool.
While they are cooling make you royal icing, then decorate the cookies once they are cooled.
Allow frosting to fully dry before storing the cookies.
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Zombie Cookies
Equipment
- Rolling pin
- Rolling pin bands
- Parchment paper or Silpat mat
- Sheet pan
- Circle cookie cutter
- Scriber needle or toothpick
- Piping tips
- Couplers
Ingredients
Zombie Brain Cookies Ingredients
- Sugar cookie dough
- Royal icing
- 30 Pecans or walnuts
- 2-3 drops Red food gel coloring
- Pastry bags or squeeze bottles
Sugar Cookies Ingredients
- 3 cups flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cups granulated sugar
- 1 cups butter 2 sticks
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Royal Icing Ingredients
- 1 pound confectioners sugar Powdered sugar
- 5 tablespoons meringue powder
- 6 tablespoons water You will need more after making the frosting as you decorate
- 1 teaspoon clear flavor extract Optional, if you are choosing to flavor your icing
- pinch salt
- Red Gel Food Coloring.
Instructions
How to Make 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.
- Repeat with scraps after cutting cookies.
- Bake at 325° F for 10 -15 minutes. Let cool.
- While the cookies are cooling make your Royal Icing.
How to Make Royal Icing
- Combine the sugar and meringue powder in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Mix on low speed until well combined.
- Stir in 2 tablespoons of the water.
- Next, add a clear extract to make your frosting take on different flavors if you want to.
- If the mixture is still crumbly add the rest of the water.
- Mix on medium-low speed for 5 minutes.
How to Make Zombie Brain Cookies
- Using 1/4 cup of royal icing, fill a piping bag with royal icing and pipe the outline of the circle with a number #4 round tip. Let it dry for 10 minutes.
- While the outline is drying, thin out the icing to be about a 6 second second icing by adding water to the frosting in the mixer 1 teaspoon at a time until you reach 6 second icing.
- Put 1/2 cup of the royal icing in to a piping bag and fill the circle (also known as flooding) with the 6 second icing. Allow the filling to dry for about 10 minutes.
- Thin down the icing to about 3 second icing and color it with 2-3 drops of red food coloring.
- Dip your nuts into the icing and let them drip off a little before placing them in the center of the cookie.
- Using a spoon, splatter the red icing over the cookies to look like blood drops, let dry.
Nutrition
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