Perfect Pumpkin Jack O’ Lantern Sugar Cookies!

Boo!! Well, it’s almost Halloween, so it’s about time to decorate one of the most common Halloween cookies of all, the Pumpkin Jack-O-Lantern Sugar Cookie! Yummy! We found this darling recipe out on the internet when looking for a fun, easy pumpkin sugar cookie "decorating how to" -- so let's have at it!  

I like the dimension and puffiness of a sectioned pumpkin, but I don’t how it looks to add a face on top of the base layer. It might be a bit on the OCD side, but I like realistic.

So here’s what I do. First, I use an food color marker to sketch out my jack o’ lantern’s face. If you want them to be uniform, use a stencil. After you have the face planned out, use flood icing to add a thin layer to fill in the sections you made.

Let that dry. Then use orange piping icing and a #2 tip to outline the facial features and divide the pumpkin into even sections.

Flood the face in by filling alternating sections, giving them about a half an hour to dry in between, then moving on to the remaining sections. This will give your pumpkin a LOT of dimension. If you like the “lift” I get from my icing, use thicker flood icing…somewhere between 12 and 20 seconds. The thicker it is, the higher it will go.

Let that dry, and add a stem and any other details you like, and you’re done! Add some of our Bakell "Pumpkin Orange Edible Dust" -- it looks amazing!

While we’re on the subject of Halloween, I wanted to share another tip.

As much as I love making Halloween cookies I hate it that almost every traditional Halloween color has that poopy bitter taste {black, orange, and purple, some reds, ect.} So, I do what I can to make any color possible as tastless as possible.

This isn’t rocket science, but sometimes it’s the simple things that make the biggest difference. Remember when I shared my secret to no-taste red?

I used the same idea to create no-taste orange. I mix tulip red with a yellow color {going back to grade school color mixing},

And I end up with a nice, non-bitter orange color. Any yellow works, even electric version.

Play with it a little and you’ll end up with a completely custom orange color, and you’ll be doing a lot to take some of the icky taste out of your Halloween cookie collections!

Happy Halloween baking everyone! Check out all of our other Halloween Decorating Supplies while you are here too!!