This Easy Halloween Zombie Sugar Cookie Recipe is the best spooky dessert! Follow these step by step directions to frost the faces. Don’t forget the fun bloody eyeball candies.
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Ingredients Needed For Halloween Zombie Cookie Recipe

- Flour – sifted
- Powdered Sugar – sifted
- Salt
- Baking Soda
- Vanilla Extract
- Egg
- Shortening
- Green Frosting
- Pink Frosting
- Red or Darker Pink Frosting
- Chocolate Frosting
- Orange Frosting
- Bloody Eyeball Sprinkles
- Second Sprinkles – optional

How To Frost This Halloween Dessert?

- Make sure your cookies are fully chilled and your frosting is properly pipped.
- Use the green to make long drags of frosting across 3/4 of the cookie.
- Take the light pink frosting and make short up and down drags in the empty space at the top of the cookies.
- Accent the brain with the red frosting.
- Use the chocolate to make one X for one eye and a squiggle for the mouth.
- Add some orange highlights to make the eye and brain pop.
- Add The bloody eyeball candy and various sprinkles.

Directions for Easy Halloween Zombie Sugar Cookie Recipe
- Beat the shortening and powdered sugar before adding in the egg and vanilla extract
- Beat in the flour, baking soda, and salt until smooth
- Wrap the dough and chill for 1 hour in the refrigerator
- Portion the dough in ¼ cup portions and set on parchment lined cookie sheet
- Bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes
- Chill the cookies before frosting
- Green frosting is for the face
- Pink and red is for the brains
- Brown is for the mouth and one eye
- Orange frosting is for adding texture/contract color

Easy Halloween Zombie Sugar Cookies
These cookies are so much fun to bake and frost for Halloween!
Equipment
- 1 Stand mixer Or hand held
- Mixing Bowls
- Piping bags
- sheet pan
Ingredients
- 2 Cups Flour
- 1+1/3 Cup Powdered sugar
- 1 Large egg
- 1+ 1/4 Cup Shortening
- 2 Tsp vanilla extract
- 3/4 Tsp baking powder
- 1/3 Tsp salt
- green frosting
- pink frosting
- red frosting
- orange frosting
- chocolate frosting
- eye ball candies
Instructions
- Cream the shortening and sugar
- add egg and vanilla
- Mix in the flour baking soda and salt
- Mix until smooth
- Wrap the dough and chill for 1 hour in the refrigerator
- Portion the dough in ¼ cup portions and set on parchment lined cookie sheet
- bake for 15 minutes in 2 batches
- chill the cookies for an hour before frosting
- see “how to frost” notes
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