Easy Slice And Bake Halloween Creature Cookies

Monsters and mummies, oh my! These beatific Halloween sugar cookies are made from a simple, buttery slice n bake dough, and are easy enough to decorate that older goblins in the home estate can help. The recipe is a Yummly original created by [Sara Mellas](https://www.yummly.com/dish/author/Sara%20Mellas).

The ingredient of Easy Slice And Bake Halloween Creature Cookies

• 1 cup unsalted butter softened
• 2 3 cup granulated sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 8 teaspoon almond extract optional
• 2 cups all intend flour benefit 2 tbsp
• 1 2 teaspoon salt scant
• 12 ounces white chocolate bars or chips
• decorating sugar green
• black candy jimmies or sprinkles
• candy eyeballs

The Instruction of easy slice and bake halloween creature cookies

• place the butter sugar vanilla extract and almond extract in a large mixing bowl or stand mixer bowl beat with a mixer on low speed to blend then increase speed to medium and beat until smooth and creamy
• add the flour and salt to the bowl and beat on low speed until a smooth dough forms scraping down sides of the bowl as needed
• on a clean work surface transfer the dough to a large sheet of plastic wrap with clean hands slightly dampened if needed to prevent sticking shape dough into a smooth rectangular log roughly 2 inches wide 1 1 2 inches tall and 10 inches long wrap tightly with plastic wrap and refrigerate until firm enough to slice neatly about 2 hours
• preheat the oven to 350u00b0f
• line two baking sheets with parchment paper
• place the chilled dough on a cutting board and discard plastic wrap slice the log into 1 2 inch thick cookies you should have 20 arrange them 1 inch apart on the prepared baking sheets
• bake the cookies on upper third and lower third racks of oven switching pan positions halfway through cook time until cookies are just starting to turn golden at edges 18 20 minutes
• check to see that cookies are done remove from oven or add time as needed
• transfer baking sheets to a cooling rack cookies are fragile while hot and let cool completely before decorating 30 60 minutes
• finely chop the chocolate bars if using no need to chop chips fill a medium saucepan with about 1 inch of water and bring to a simmer transfer the white chocolate to a small heatproof bowl that is big enough to sit on the saucepan well above the water reduce heat to low and warm stirring constantly until chocolate is melted and completely smooth about 2 minutes remove bowl from saucepan
• to make monsters dip the top of each cookie half to three quarters of the way into the melted white chocolate then lay it flat on the baking sheet sprinkle the chocolate with green decorating sugar press about 1 4 teaspoon of black jimmies into the top of the green sprinkles to create hair and carefully spoon on a little to create a mouth secure two candy eyeballs in the middle of the green sugar
• to make mummies dip the top of each cookie half to three quarters of the way into the melted white chocolate then lay it flat on the baking sheet freeze the baking sheet for about 10 minutes to set the chocolate place a few tablespoons of melted chocolate in a zip top bag and gently squeeze it into the corner cut a very small tip from the corner of the bag with scissors remove the baking sheet from freezer pipe melted chocolate in diagonal lines crosswise over u201cbodiesu201d of mummy cookies creating u201cwraps u201d secure two candy eyeballs in the middle of the chocolate coating
• once all the cookies are decorated and arranged on the baking sheets freeze for 10 15 minutes to set the chocolate
• once the chocolate is set the cookies are ready to be served leftover cookies may be stored in an airtight container in the refrigerator up to five days bring to room temperature before serving

Nutritions of Easy Slice And Bake Halloween Creature Cookies

@type: nutritioninformation
@type: 260 calories
@type: 29 grams
@type: 30 milligrams
@type: 16 grams
@type: 3 grams
@type: 9 grams
@type: 85 milligrams
@type: 19 grams