Halloween Sugar Cookies

My children were invited to a Halloween party yesterday, where they had to bring a treat to share. So I took out my favourite recipe for sugar cookies and my Spider-and-Web cookie cutters.

I have a weakness for cookie cutters. So when I saw these here a few years ago I could not resist.

This is the recipe:

1 cup butter

1 cup packed brown sugar

1 egg

1 tsp vanilla

2 cups flour

1/2 tsp baking powder 

1/4 tsp nutmeg

pinch salt

Take away about 1/4 of the dough and add 2 Tbsp of cocoa powder to that. Use this for the spiders.

 The dough needs to rest for at least 1 hour in the fridge before rolling it out. Bake at 350 F for about 11 minutes.

For the icing I used Icing Sugar mixed with a bit of milk until smooth and only slightly runny. To draw the spiderweb on the cookie I used a #2 tip.