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Day of the Dead Sugar Skull Sugar Cookies

November 1, 2016 by Deanna Tousignant 9 Comments

The kids loved the cookies I made for Halloween especially the skull cookies.  They were actually quite easy to make so we got together and they decorated their own Day of The Dead Sugar Skull Cookies.

sugar_skull_sugar_cookies_ingredientsTo put these together we used:

  • Go-To Cookie Cutter Sugar Cookie recipe
  • skull shaped cookie cutter
  • Wilton icing decoration flowers
  • candy corn
  • candy coated chocolate balls
  • can of  vanilla frosting (you can make your own icing if you want)
  • squeeze bottles

 

After cutting out and baking our cookies we let them cool and set up our decoration station at the dining room table. We put the decorations in bowls and set them on the table with a placemat for each kid.

decorating skull cookies

I put a few spoonful of frosting in each bottle. I had picked up some squeeze bottles so they wouldn’t have to use piping bags. This way, they could draw on the cookies and I was less likely to have to clean up frosting off of the floor/table/ceiling

The kids took their baked, cooled off cookies and planned out what items go where before they used the frosting to glue the items down. Just a little dab of frosting is all you need to make them stick on. Start off with just the candy corn nose and either flower or chocolate candy eyes, and then I let them get a silly.

Make your own Day of the Dead sugar cookies with your kids.

After attaching the eyes and nose, each skull got their own frosting mouth and some extra frosting and candy decorating. The squeeze bottles worked out perfect.  I’m not kidding when I say they are easy to make. It’s okay if the dough doesn’t look perfectly smooth. Those aren’t cracks; they’re skull fractures.  Skull fractures add character.

Easy to make skeleton head cookies.

We ended up with vampire skulls, skulls with flower crowns, skulls with part hats, and a whole assortment of silliness. You could really use any kind of candy or cake decoration. Get creative. This was what I had on hand but I could have easily used M&Ms or some other leftover Halloween candy.

Dia de los muertos skull cookies.

If you are looking for a kid friendly cookie decoration idea I would recommend this. My only warning: there was leftover frosting galore, but that’s fine by me. Even after all the extra swirls and dots I used less than 1/3 of a container of frosting.  Looks like I’m going to have to bake something else and use that frosting up. Oh no!

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Comments

  1. Dianne says

    November 2, 2016 at 1:18 am

    So simple and so much fun. Using squeeze bottles was a great idea. Each cookie is unique…like a little piece of art. Great job girls!

    Reply
  2. Aeryn Lynne says

    November 2, 2016 at 8:13 am

    Day of the Dead skull cookies never looked so delicious before! Love them! 🙂

    Reply
  3. Soozle says

    November 2, 2016 at 6:46 pm

    I love it! I have such interest in the day of the dead so this really got my nod of approval 🙂

    Reply
  4. Mishelle says

    December 14, 2016 at 10:18 pm

    I really like this idea!! I think it’s a great idea and I am totally stealing it next Nov!!!

    Mishelle

    Reply
  5. Janet M says

    May 20, 2017 at 5:30 pm

    These cookies would be great fun to make. Thanks for the idea.

    Reply
  6. Tammy Dalley says

    November 9, 2017 at 12:47 pm

    Love these we made something similar for Halloween!

    Reply
  7. Jenn Erin says

    November 12, 2017 at 1:32 am

    They turned out so awesome! I love the creativity in these cookies.

    Reply
  8. kathy downey says

    July 17, 2019 at 11:57 am

    This would be so much fun to do with my grandkids,theylove being creative in the kitchen !

    Reply
  9. Lynda Cook says

    July 20, 2019 at 7:25 am

    These are awesome, I just don’t know if I would have the patience to decorate them..lol

    Reply

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