Eye of Newt and Essence of Spider.......

Halloween brings so many fun things. There's the candy....we all love that.  There's the costumes where we can dress up like we are still kids......or a sexy version of a Disney princess/fairy tale character, which seems to be the choice costume among women today (giggles). 

For the cookie/cake decorator it brings some NOT so fun things....like dark colors that do NOTHING for your nails.....seriously my nails were horrible from the black food gel.

Saturday I took the day off from decorating and went to have my nails done.  I brought Miss B and  

Miss P with me and made a girls day out of it.  Hey, a girl's gotta have nice nails.....and cute shoes.  That's a RULE in this house.  It's the one rule my daughters DON'T complain about :)

BUT......from now on it's gloves when coloring icing. 

Now.....on to the cookies.

You will need:

Wedding cake shaped cookies

orange royal icing

black royal icing

piping bags

#1 tip

#2 tip

First outline your cookie in orange royal icing.  Let dry about 15 minutes then fill with orange flood icing.  Let dry about 2 hours.

next pipe on spider and web with black royal icing using a #1 tip.  Outline cake layers in black royal icing.

Next pipe white dots on bottom layer of cake using a #2 tip.  Make various sizes of dots.  Be sure not to make dots to close to each other like I did or they will run into each other. Then take black royal icing and #1 tip and place dot on top of white dots to make eyes.  

Next pipe vertical lines with black royal icing and #2 tip.  Allow cookie to dry 6-8 hours or overnight. 

For another cute eye catching treats check out:

Confessions of a Cookbook Queen's Peanut Butter Eyeball Truffles

Sweet Sugar Belle's 3-D Witch Hat Cookies

Everyone SCREAM...in Our Town of HALLOWEEN....

Halloween wouldn't be complete without Jack Skellington in this house.  My kids all love him.  He's eerie and creepy....all the things a teenager loves.

I really think The Nightmare Before Christmas gets played at least once a week.  I don't like anything remotely scary.

 It's the closest thing to a scary movie I want to see. Now I know it's not really a "horror" film, but it's as close to one as I'm watching.

I can't watch scary movies.  Not happening!  It's bad enough my mind is constantly wondering....thinking crazy things.  I think I'm scared of everything.  Which is the reason I don't watch the news at all. I'm constantly thinking something bad is going to happen.  Wondering if someone is going to break in and slaughter us all.

I bet all the years of watching scary movies contributed to my warped sense of thinking.....I know it did. I still get scared watching Nightmare on Elm Street.......you know it scared you back in the day too.

And camping in the woods......nope.....Jason cured that.

So I will stay in my nice, safe, slaughter free zone at home and bake you cookies.  Things are much better this way.

To make Jack Skellington cookies you will need:
round scalloped edged cookies or shape of your choosing
purple royal icing
white royal icing
black royal icing

For recipe on Royal icing see my royal icing tutorial.

Instructions
Cut, bake, and cool cookies.

In center of cookie make a circle outline in black royal icing.  Don't worry your circle doesn't have to be perfect...Jack's face isn't completely round.  Let dry for about 30 minutes.

Fill circle with white flood icing.  While icing is still wet add eyes, nose and mouth on Jack. 

outline cookie with purple royal icing. Let dry 15-30 minutes. 

Fill cookie with purple flood icing. While icing is still wet apply a few semi circles in black for webs. Drag toothpick through lines to make spider web.  Let dry overnight.  

~Throw on your heels and get to baking~