Halloween Cutout Cookies
A Betty Crocker betty-crocker-cookies recipe for Halloween Cutout Cookies.
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
- 1/2 cup butter or margarine -- softened
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 eggs
- 4 cups Bisquick® Original baking mix
- 11 drops yellow food color
- 7 drops red food color
- 2 tablespoons baking cocoa
- Egg Yolk Paint -- (recipe follows)
- 1 egg yolk
- 1/4 teaspoon water
Instructions
- 1
Beat powdered sugar, butter, vanilla and eggs in large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed, or mix with spoon.
- 2
Stir in baking mix until soft dough forms.
- 3
Divide dough in half.
- 4
Mix yellow and red food colors into 1 half to make orange dough; mix cocoa into other half to make chocolate dough.
- 5
Cover and refrigerate doughs separately 1 to 2 hours or until chilled.
- 6
Heat oven to 400º.
- 7
Roll one-fourth of the dough at a time 1/8 inch thick on floured cloth-covered surface. (Keep remaining dough refrigerated until ready to roll.)
- 8
Cut orange dough with 2- to 3-inch pumpkin-shaped cookie cutter and chocolate dough with medium-size cat-shaped cookie cutter.
- 9
Place 1 inch apart on ungreased cookie sheet.
- 10
Prepare Egg Yolk Paint.
- 11
Paint faces on pumpkins and cats.
- 12
Bake 5 to 7 minutes or until edges are light brown.
- 13
Remove from cookie sheet to wire rack.