Looking for a unique cookie recipe for Halloween? These yummy mummies are homemade using the best soft sugar cookie recipe tinted green for a spooky glow and wrapped in white buttercream "bandages"! Let your kids take over cutting out and decorating these Halloween sugar cookies!
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Why You'll Love This Recipe
- A homemade Halloween cookie that's fun for kids to decorate!
- Creepy and spooky without being gross!
- Can be made ahead!
- Great for class Halloween party!
Ingredient Notes
- Avocado Food Coloring - You can find this at a specialty kitchen or baking store.
- Powdered Sugar - please note this recipe calls for powdered sugar aka confectioners' sugar, not granulated sugar. Using granulate sugar will result in a crumbly mixture and not a cookie dough.
- Butter - both salted and unsalted butter work fine.
- Flour - all purpose flour, never self rising flour.
- M'n'Ms - you could use candy eyes instead.
- Frosting - You can use my Buttercream Frosting recipe or you could use my Royal Icing instead if you prefer.
How to Make Step by Step Recipe Instructions
- Cream the butter and powdered sugar (not granulated sugar) in a large bowl or the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment.
- Add the eggs, vanilla and almond extracts. mix well and scrape down the sides of the bowl.
- Stir in the flour and mix at a medium speed until no white steaks remain.
- Add enough avocado shade food coloring to make the dough the shade you want.
- Cover with plastic wrap and chill the dough for one hour.
- Pre heat oven to 375 degrees.
- Line your baking sheets with parchment paper or lightly spray with non-stick cooking spray.
- Remove the cookie dough from your fridge and rolled it out to about ¼ inch thick on a floured surface.
- Using a gingerbread man cookie cutter, cut out little men.
- Place the cut outs on your prepared baking sheets. I usually only put 9 per pan.
- Gently press the legs together tapping the legs seams together slightly.
- Press two mini M&Ms onto each mummy for it's face.
- Bake at 375 degrees for 8-10 minutes.
- These cookies will not brown on the tops. The bottom edges however will have started to brown just a little.
- Cool completely on a wire rack.
- Line your cooled cookies up on some wax paper in preparation for frosting.
- Fill a 12 or 16 inch piping bag or pastry bag with frosting.
- Using a #47 frosting tip pipe the mummy wrap onto your cookies with my best buttercream frosting!
- Let frosting set before layering between pieces of wax paper in an airtight container.
Recipe FAQs and Expert Tips
Once completely cool, frosted and the frosting is set, layer between wax papers in a container that will seal airtight then pop them in the freezer. Thaw at room temperature.
Chilling the dough make it easier to work with, roll out nicer and allows your cut outs to keep their sharp cut edges.
You could make these adorable mummy cookies a week ahead of time if you store them in the fridge in a tightly covered container. Allow them to warm to room temperature before serving.
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Easy Mummy Sugar Cookies Recipe
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Chill Time: 1 Hour
- Cook Time: 10 minutes (per batch)
- Total Time: 1 hour 25 minutes
- Yield: 3 dozen 1x
- Category: Halloween
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Description
Looking for a unique cookie recipe for Halloween? These yummy mummies are homemade using the best soft sugar cookie recipe tinted green for a spooky glow and wrapped in white buttercream "bandages"! Let your kids take over cutting out and decorating these Halloween sugar cookies!
Ingredients
- 2 cups Butter (softened)
- 3 cups Powdered Sugar
- 2 Eggs
- 2 tsp Vanilla Extract
- 2 tsp Almond Extract
- 5 cups Flour
- Avocado Shade Food Coloring Gel
- Gingerbread Man Cookie Cutter
- A Couple tubes or a bags of mini M'n'M's
- 2 cups White Buttercream Frosting
- #47 Frosting Tip
Instructions
- In a mixing bowl, cream the butter and powdered sugar.
- Beat in the eggs, vanilla, and almond extracts.
- Stir in the flour.
- Add enough avocado food coloring to make it the shade you want.
- Cover and refrigerate for an hour.
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees and prepare baking sheets by either lining them with parchment paper or spraying them with non-stick cooking spray.
- Roll the cookie dough out on a floured surface. The dough may be a little sticky at first, just sprinkle the top of the dough so the rolling pin doesn't stick.
- Roll out to ¼ inch thick and cut out into gingerbread man shapes.
- Place the cut outs on the prepared baking sheet and push their legs together tapping the leg seams together slightly.
- Press 2 mini M&Ms on each cookie for eyes.
- Bake at 375 for 8-10 minutes. The cookies shouldn't brown except for on the very bottom edges very lightly.
- Cool cookies completely before frosting.
- Using a #47 tip, pipe the white buttercream frosting using back and forth motions onto the mummies.
- Once the frosting is set up, store between layers of wax paper in an airtight container.
Notes
- I like to make these at least a day ahead and let them sit overnight to also the frosting to soften the cookies to perfection.
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Beth
I plan on making these again this year. My son and his classmates enjoyed them so much that they asked for them again. I can't turn the room mother done as she works so hard.
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Toni
These are really cute!! My kids loved it for an afternoon snack! We will make it again for the Halloween!
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Jennifer
These are such a fun and tasty fall cookie! I can't wait to make another batch for the kids!
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Gina
Such fun cookies to make with the kids and I love that my gingerbread men cookie cutters get some extra use!
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Dannii
How cute are these!? Sorry, scary!! My kids would love making them.
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Mindee
Cute and so easy!
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