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Marbled Halloween Cookies

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  • Prep 45 min
  • Total 4 hr 50 min
  • Servings 26
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Celebrate Halloween in style by serving up these artistic and easy-to-make dipped sugar cookies. Perfect for parties and trick-or-treaters alike, this dessert is a must-make during spooky season! The easy cookie decorating technique looks impressive but is simple to pull off and will leave each sweet treat with a different marbled look. So break out the cookie cutters, and let’s get baking!
By Betty Crocker Kitchens
Updated Aug 10, 2023
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Ingredients

Steps

  • 1
    Heat oven to 375°F. In medium bowl, stir cookie mix, flour, butter and egg until soft dough forms. Divide dough in half.
  • 2
    On floured surface, roll one half of the dough 1/4-inch thick. Cut with 4 1/2-inch x 1 3/4-inch bat-shaped cookie cutter; place cutouts 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheets. Reroll dough, and cut additional bat-shaped cutouts.
  • 3
    Bake 7 to 10 minutes or until edges are light golden brown. Cool 2 minutes; remove from cookie sheets to cooling rack. Cool completely, about 30 minutes.
  • 4
    Meanwhile, using remaining half of cookie dough, repeat steps on rolling, cutting, baking and rerolling with 3 1/2-inch x 3-inch ghost-shaped cookie cutter.
  • 5
    In 2 medium microwavable bowls, place 3/4 cup of frosting. Microwave 1 bowl uncovered 15 to 20 seconds or until warmed and thinner consistency; stir smooth. Squeeze 2 to 4 small dots neon green food color into warmed frosting. Pull toothpick several times through warmed frosting to make swirls.
  • 6
    Dip top of each bat-shaped cookie into green-swirled glaze, letting excess drip off. Place cookie right side up on cooling rack placed over cookie sheet or waxed paper. Place candy eyeballs on cookie. Rewarm frosting mixture in microwave to maintain dipping consistency, if needed while dipping cookies. Repeat steps on warming, swirling food color and dipping with remaining 3/4 cup frosting, purple food color and ghost-shaped cookies.
  • 7
    Let stand about 3 hours or until set. Store covered in airtight container at room temperature with waxed paper between layers.

Tips from the Betty Crocker Kitchens

  • tip 1
    Cut cookies with a cutter dipped in flour. Cutting shapes as close together as possible on the rolled dough helps you avoid rerolling the dough scraps (rerolled dough will be a little tougher). To more easily move cookies from the surface to the cookie sheet, lightly press the top and back of your spatula in flour beforehand. Bake same-size cookie shapes on the same sheet to ensure that they’ll bake in the same amount of time.
  • tip 2
    Line cookie sheets with cooking parchment paper for easier clean up.
  • tip 3
    Cookies turn out best when baked one sheet at a time on middle oven rack. Allow cookie sheet to cool completely between batches. Otherwise, cookies will spread too much.
  • tip 4
    Watch closely when warming frosting in microwave—it won’t take long to melt down into a looser texture perfect for dipping.
  • tip 5
    Be sure the glaze is completely set before storing. Otherwise, cookies might stick together.
  • tip 6
    Only have one cookie cutter? Make the cutout cookies all the same shape, and continue as directed in recipe.
  • tip 7
    Short on time? Make and bake cutout cookies the day before decorating. Cool completely; store in covered container at room temperature until the next day. Continue as directed in recipe.
  • tip 8
    The number of dots of food color that are added to the warmed frosting give different marbling looks. Adding two dots of food color will give just a hint of marbling. The more dots added and swirled, the more marbling will be on the cookie.
  • tip 9
    Change it up! Dip bat-shaped cookies in green marbled glaze and ghost-shaped cookies in the purple marbled glaze.

Nutrition

170 Calories, 6g Total Fat, 1g Protein, 26g Total Carbohydrate, 17g Sugars

Nutrition Facts

Serving Size: 1 Cookie
Calories
170
Calories from Fat
60
Total Fat
6g
10%
Saturated Fat
3 1/2g
18%
Trans Fat
0g
Cholesterol
15mg
6%
Sodium
110mg
5%
Potassium
0mg
0%
Total Carbohydrate
26g
9%
Dietary Fiber
0g
0%
Sugars
17g
Protein
1g
% Daily Value*:
Vitamin A
2%
2%
Vitamin C
0%
0%
Calcium
0%
0%
Iron
2%
2%
Exchanges:
1 Starch; 0 Fruit; 1/2 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 1 Fat;
Carbohydrate Choice
2
*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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