Halloween Sugar Cookies
Get ready to spook and sprinkle! These Halloween sugar cookies are soft, frosting, and loaded with festive sprinkles, perfect for trick or treaters, Halloween parties, or just a fun seasonal snack. With a buttery sugar cookie base and a sweet, creamy frosting, each cookie is a little canvas for your spooky creativity. Think orange, black, purple, and all the fun sprinkles you can find. These cookies aren’t just tasty; they’re a Halloween celebration in every bite!
Choose Your Swirl
One of the best things about these Halloween sugar cookies is how easy they are to make your own. You can switch up the frosting color, sprinkle mix, or add any spooky decorations your family loves to match the seasons, think bats, ghosts, or classic orange and black! These cookies remind us a lot of our classic frosted sugar cookies, just with a Halloween twist. Decorating them is a fun way to get family and friends involved, use up leftover sprinkles form your pantry, and turn cookie time into a festive spooky activity everyone will enjoy!
When we were little, our mom would pull out those classic sugar cookies from the bag (yes, the store-bought ones!) and we’d gather around the table with frosting and sprinkles ready to decorate. Most of the sprinkles were probably leftover from last Halloween, but none of that mattered, we’d just smear on frosting, dump on as many sprinkles as possible, and just have the best time making a total mess. It wasn’t about perfection, it was all about the fun of creating, decorating, and laughing at the sloppy looking cookies. Those little memories are exactly what these Halloween sugar cookies are all about!
Why I Measure in Grams (and You Might Want To, Too)
If you’ve ever made the same recipe twice and gotten two totally different results, the measuring method is often the reason.
Professional bakeries almost always measure by weight, not volume. Measuring cups leave room for inconsistency—especially with ingredients that pack differently depending on how you scoop or pour them. A scale removes all of that guesswork.
One of the biggest offenders is sugar. Different sugars (and even the same sugar measured by different people) can vary wildly in volume, but 100 grams is always 100 grams. Measuring by weight gives you repeatable, bakery-consistent results and cuts down on extra dishes at the same time.
A food scale is one of the best (and most affordable) investments you can make for your kitchen if you love baking and want your recipes to turn out exactly the same every time.
Ingredients To Prepare
Before baking, take a few minutes to gather the ingredients below and to ensure that they are soft, chewy, and perfectly spooky!
Once you have all of the ingredients ready to go, you’re officially set up for Halloween Sugar Cookie success. I always recommend measuring everything out ahead of time so the process is smoother, and you can focus on making the best cookies possible!
Halloween Sugar Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter
- 1 1/3 cup white granulated sugar
- 1 egg
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 2 1/4 cup all purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/4 cup Halloween sprinkles
- 1 cup butter
- 3 cup powdered sugar
- 3 tbsp heavy cream or milk
- 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- sprinkles
Method
- Preheat oven to 350°F (convection). Beat room-temperature butter in a stand mixer or by hand for 3–5 minutes until slightly off-white.
- Add granulated sugar and beat with the butter until fluffy, about 2 minutes.
- Add the egg and vanilla extract, mixing until fully combined.
- Add flour, baking soda, baking powder, and Halloween sprinkles. Fold until a cookie dough forms.
- Use a 1/3 cup scoop (or desired size) to place a single dough ball on a tray. Bake this test cookie to check spread and oven temperature. Adjust if needed.
- Place remaining dough balls on the tray, spacing evenly. Flatten slightly if desired. Bake for 12–14 minutes (for 1/3 cup scoops).
- For perfectly round cookies, gently swirl a cup or bowl around each fresh cookie. Let sit on the tray for 10 minutes before removing.
- Beat butter until slightly off-white. Add powdered sugar and heavy cream, then vanilla extract. Whip until fluffy.
- Frost the cooled cookies and sprinkle with Halloween sprinkles. Store in the fridge for up to 10 days or at room temperature for up to a week.
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I made these cookies and they were so so goodddd
These cookies are super good! The frosting is a little bit rich, and if you let them cool outside in winter, the edges will get a little hard, so let them warm up for a few hours! But these cookies are a 10/10!
Hello I am wondering if u could bake these ahead of time and freeze without the frosting?! Made them before but going to use Christmas sprinkles instead this time so perfect!
Girl your grams recipe was WRONG. you put “ 6 grams baking soda
2 grams baking powder” instead of the measurements for baking powder and SALT. I made them and they completely spread so badly. I wasted so much ingredients and time. Please proof read your stuff better!