FROSTED HALLOWEEN COOKIES WITH ROYAL ICING STORY

Frosted Halloween Cookies With Royal Icing

These Frosted Halloween Cookies are made from a flavorful red velvet cookie base and cut into spooky shapes and decorated with royal icing for a spooktacular Halloween treat.

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INGREDIENTS

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We decorated these Halloween cookies with royal icing. It's not very hard to do or work with, but it takes a wee bit of practice.

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Heat oven to 400°. Cream butter and confectioner's sugar in a stand up mixer with paddle attachment.

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Add egg, mix in red velvet emulsion, vanilla, cocoa powder and melted chocolate. Blend in flour, baking powder, dry buttermilk, and salt.

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Bake on parchment lined baking sheet for 9 minutes. Cool the cookie completely before icing. Allow the icing to set for several hours.

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