Sugar Cookie Ghosts Recipe

Posted by
Rate It!
Sugar Cookie Ghosts
Add your photo!
Ingredients
13
Count
Nutrition
1048
Calories
Total time
70
Minutes
Comments Print recipe

Ingredients:

  • 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1 batch royal icing (see below)
  • 1 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar

Directions:

  1. Cream the butter and sugar. Add the egg and beat until fluffy. Blend in the vanilla. Sift in the flour, baking powder, and salt, mixing until just combined. Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and chill for 1 hour.
  2. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. On a floured surface, roll half of the dough to 1/8-inch thick. Use a ghost cookie cutter, or you can use a small knife to cut the dough into freeform ghost shapes, as shown. Gather and reroll scraps. Continue with remaining dough. Place the cookies on a greased baking sheet and bake for about 8 minutes, until just turning golden. Do not allow cookies to brown.
  3. When the cookies are completely cool, cover them with white royal icing and press chocolate chips into the icing to make eyes (and a mouth if desired). Let the icing dry before stacking the cookies.
  4. With beaters or a standing mixer, whip the egg white and lemon juice until frothy. At medium speed, beat in the confectioners' sugar, a little at a time, until the mixture is thick but still liquid enough to beat. Then beat on high until the mixture is thick and glossy, about 3 minutes. Cover the surface with plastic wrap while waiting to use it. Royal icing will set to a firm, glossy finish when applied to a cookie. The icing can be stored, tightly covered, in the refrigerator for up to a week.
  5. *RAW EGG WARNING
  6. Food Network Kitchens suggest caution in consuming raw and lightly-cooked eggs due to the slight risk of Salmonella or other food-borne illness. To reduce this risk, we recommend you use only fresh, properly-refrigerated, clean, grade A or AA eggs with intact shells, and avoid contact between the yolks or whites and the shell.
Kitchen-Friendly View

Nutrition Facts

Per ServingPer 100 g
Amount Per 1 Serving
Calories 1047.97 Kcal (4388 kJ)
Calories from fat 158 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 17.56g 27%
Cholesterol 95.05mg 32%
Sodium 433.83mg 18%
Potassium 307.05mg 7%
Total Carbs 212.97g 71%
Sugars 145.68g 583%
Dietary Fiber 2.53g 10%
Protein 11.64g 23%
Vitamin C 0.7mg 1%
Vitamin A 0.2mg 6%
Iron 1.3mg 7%
Calcium 99mg 10%
Amount Per 100 g
Calories 371.76 Kcal (1556 kJ)
Calories from fat 56.05 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 6.23g 27%
Cholesterol 33.72mg 32%
Sodium 153.9mg 18%
Potassium 108.92mg 7%
Total Carbs 75.55g 71%
Sugars 51.68g 583%
Dietary Fiber 0.9g 10%
Protein 4.13g 23%
Vitamin C 0.2mg 1%
Vitamin A 0.1mg 6%
Iron 0.4mg 7%
Calcium 35.1mg 10%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
Find out how many calories should you eat.

Tastes

  • salty
  • savory
  • bitter
  • sweet
Search recipes
by ingredients
Search
Construct & Analyze
Your Recipe
Analyze

Try this similar recipes

View More

Recipe Tags

Weightwatchers Points

  • 21.9
    Points
  • 28
    PointsPlus

Good Points

  • saturated fat free

Bad Points

  • High in Sugar

Also Try

Share Recipe

Recipes▼
Search
Get Your Recipe of Health!
Follow RecipeOfHealth on Facebook!
Scroll to top