This year for Halloween I wanted to do a cookie that was a little less traditional. I've done skulls and spiders and mummies and things like that in the past. At first I wanted to do a whole bunch of decorative owls, almost look like they were made of cut paper possibly in Halloween colors like oranges and purples. Then I really wanted to do sugar skulls, but I feel like everybody is doing sugar skulls now. Then the thought came to me to do a very decorative sugar skull inspired owl design. I used a chocolate sugar cookie base to really make the design pop on the cookie and I couldn't be happier with the results. They're something a little different than what I normally see for Halloween cookies and that's exactly what I was going for. And like always, they're gluten free. If you want to make these too, here's what you're going to need.
Sugar Skull Owls for Halloween
Decorating level: AdvancedConcept, design, and execution by Jesika Rose
- Gluten Free Chocolate Sugar Dough Recipe
- Royal Icing Recipe
- 4" round cookie cutter
- 12 Decorating bags, couplers, tips, and rubber bands
- Two #3 round tips
- Nine #2 round tips
- Two #1 round tips
- Toothpicks
- Gel food coloring:
- Regal purple (or Violet with a dash of Fushia)
- Lemon Yellow
- Leaf or Neon Green
- Sky Blue
- Deep Pink
- Orange
