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Halloween Spiderweb Cookies

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Halloween Spiderweb Cookies

Halloween Spiderweb Cookies

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Equipment

  • - Stand Mixer: Essential for mixing dough efficiently with various attachments.

  • - Silicone Baking Mat: Perfect for rolling out and transferring cookie dough without sticking.

  • - Rolling Pin: Used to flatten dough if a stand mixer or food processor is not available, ensuring an even thickness.

  • - Parchment Paper Sheets: Lines baking sheets for easy cleanup and prevents cookies from sticking during baking.

  • - Cookie Cutters: Create the spiderweb design on cookies before baking with various shapes and sizes.

  • - Oven Thermometer: Ensures accurate oven temperature crucial for evenly baked cookies.

  • - Piping Bags and Tips: Decorates cookies with icing to complete the spiderweb design.

  • - Icing Bags: An alternative for decorating cookies with various sizes suitable for different designs.

  • - Digital Scale: Measures ingredients precisely for consistent baking results.

  • - Cookie Cutting Board: Stable surface used when cutting and decorating cookies with cookie cutters or knives.

  • - Pastry Brush: Brushes egg wash on cookies before baking to give them a golden color and shine.

Ingredients

  • 2 batches decorating icingepi:recipelink

  • 1 batch sugar cookiesepi:recipeLink:, cut out using 3 1/3-inch round or octagonal cookie cutter, baked according to directions in recipe, and cooled completely

  • Black food coloring, preferably liquid

  • 3 pastry bags fitted with couplers, 2 #3-size (medium, round) decorating tips, 1 #1-size (small, round) decorating tip, small offset spatula, toothpicks

Instructions

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Instruction 1

Make thin icing: In large bowl, stir together 1 batch icing and 2 tablespoons water. Fit 1 pastry bag with #3-size tip and fill with thin icing.
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Instruction 2

Color thicker icing: Divide second batch icing between 2 medium bowls. To icing in 1 bowl, gradually mix in black food coloring until icing is black. Fit second pastry bag with second #3-size tip and fill with black icing.
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Instruction 3

Fit third pastry bag with #1-size tip and fill with remaining (thicker) white icing.
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Instruction 4

Pipe border: Using pastry bag with #1 tip and thicker white icing, pipe around outer edge of 1 cookie. Repeat with remaining cookies and let set 2 minutes.
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Instruction 5

"Flood" to fill center: Using pastry bag with #3 tip and thinner white icing, squirt pool of icing into center of 1 cookie, then spread to edge with small offset spatula. Repeat with second cookie, giving first time to set.
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Instruction 6

Pipe circles: Returning to first cookie, using pastry bag with black icing, pipe concentric circles over white icing, beginning in center and ending almost at edge. Repeat with second cookie, giving first time to set.
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Instruction 7

Form spiderweb pattern: Returning to first cookie, position tip of toothpick in center and drag through icing out to edge. Wipe tip and repeat 7 more times to make 8 evenly spaced, radiating lines like spokes of wheel.
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Instruction 8

Next, position tip at edge, halfway between 2 lines, and drag inward to center to create another line. Wipe tip and repeat 7 more times to make 8 more lines between first 8.
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Instruction 9

Repeat process with second iced cookie. Repeat with remaining cookies, working in batches of 2 to allow icing to partially set, but not harden, between steps. Let cookies dry, uncovered, at room temperature 10 hours or overnight. (Once dry, cookies will keep, layered between sheets of wax paper or parchment, in airtight container at room temperature 1 week.)
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