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Eyeball Cookies

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These easy Halloween sugar cookies feature a spooky frosting eye design simple enough to make with the kids.

  • Author: Claire Coffey
  • Prep Time: 30 minutes
  • Total Time: 30 minutes
  • Yield: 24 cookies 1x
  • Category: Dessert
  • Method: Baking
  • Cuisine: American

Ingredients

Scale
  • 2 dozen sugar cookies
  • 1 - 1 1/2 cups frosting
  • Black food coloring
  • Food coloring for desired iris colors

Instructions

  1. Bake sugar cookies (if you're making homemade sugar cookies). Allow to cool completely.
  2. Using an offset spatula, spread a thin layer of frosting over the top of each cookie. A thin layer is easier to spread smooth with no rim around the edge than a thicker layer.
  3. Evenly divide the remaining frosting between the number of colors you want to use for the irises, with about 1/4 cup leftover for the black pupils and white reflections.
  4. Tint the frosting for the irises. Spread a thin layer over the center of the cookies.
  5. Place a few dollops of food coloring (the same as you used for the irises) onto a plate.
  6. Using a small, food-safe brush, paint the food coloring onto the colored part of each eye working from the outer edge inward.
  7. Color half of the remaining frosting black. Pipe a small dollop onto the center of each eye to create the pupil.
  8. Swirl the black frosting into place using a toothpick or gently spread with an offset spatula.
  9. Pipe two small dots of white frosting onto the pupils, using a toothpick to pull the bottom dot down and in.

Notes

    • If you're baking your cookies, make sure they've cooled completely before you begin frosting.

    • Sugar cookies lost their shape while baking: Re-cut the cookies with the same cookie cutter immediately after removing the tray from the oven.

    • Smooth frosting: The easiest way to get a nice, smooth layer of frosting is to place the cookies on a revolving cake stand and use a small offset spatula to smooth the frosting as you turn the top.