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These Halloween cookies are part of a collaboration with my friend Angela of The Squishy Monster. Angela thought it would be cute to incorporate Jack Skellington into our project, so I put his face on a pumpkin cookie!
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Make sure to visit The Squishy Monster for Angela's pumpkin cookie recipe and other Halloween treats!

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Here's what you'll need for this project:
- Roll-out cookie dough (use your favorite recipe or get mine in the tutorial shop)
- Pumpkin cookie cutter
- Edible ink markers
- Flood Consistency Royal Icing
- 12" decorating bags
- Small tipless decorating bags
- Decorating tip 2
- Scribe tool
- Colors: Yellow, blue, orange, and black Wilton color right
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See below for printable instructions!
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Halloween Cookies - Jack Skellington Jack O'Lanterns
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Jack-O'-Lantern Cookies for Halloween!
Materials
Instructions
1) Begin by drawing the eyes and mouth with an edible ink marker.
2) Draw lines to separate the sections of the pumpkins.
3) Outline and fill in the stem with green flood consistency royal icing and a decorating tip 1.
4) Use a scribe tool to help shape the icing.
5) Fill in every other section of the pumpkin using orange flood consistency royal icing and a decorating tip 2.
6) Allow the icing to dry for about one hour.
7) Fill in the remaining sections.
8) Allow the icing to dry 8 to 12 hours.
9) Fill in the eyes and mouth using black flood consistency royal icing and a decorating tip number 1.
10) Use a scribe tool to elongate the mouth.
11) Add a series of short vertical lines along the mouth with the black icing.
Notes
Learn everything you need to know about royal icing consistencies here!
Click on the images below for more cookie decorating tutorials!
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Do you have a tutorial or instructions for the other beautiful cookies that accompanied Jack Skellington in the picture? Specifically hoping you do for the Halloween Victorian scroll cookie. It’s gorgeous!
Thank you! Here's a post with tutorials for the other cookies in the set 🙂 https://www.sweetambs.com/tutorial/halloween-cookies-2/
Gorgeous!!! Do you just wait for crusting between? Trying to work out how to avoid bleeding🙈
Thank you! I wait about 30 minutes to an hour for the icing to be dry just enough to fill in the sections in between. This post has tips on how to prevent color bleed: https://www.sweetambs.com/tutorial/royalicing/
Where are the printable instructions?
We're having trouble the with recipe plugin. Working on it today! Sorry about that!
How do you make floodable Royal icing
make your royal icing as per the directions, in order to thin for flooding use small amounts of water at a time and mix into the icing with a small spatula. it will reach flooding concistancy when you pull your spatula through the icing and it take about 17 seconds to recover completely. Good Luck, and Have Fun!!
Tudo muito lindo e fácil porem trabalhoso e sem pressa pra dar certo!!!
Did you use flood consistency icing to pipe the vertical lines on the mouth and on the nose?
Hi amber, love your video and the music you used. I've tried to identify the music but have drawn a blank. Could you tell me what it is please...? Many thanks rachel x
It's called Neutrinos by Paul Mottram. I searched for a while.. I love the music as well.
Que material es??
I could watch you pipe all day! Cute video and cookies 😉
Thanks, Lisa!! 😀
These look amazing. Thanks for sharing the technique x
These Halloween pumpkins and their video are a lot of fun! Love the choice of music, too 🙂
Thank you, Michelle!!
Julia, these are so fun! Did you do the orange parts before the black to reduce color bleed, or is it just personal preference?
Not so much to prevent color bleed, but so that the eyes would look a little bit recessed, as if they were carved out 🙂
Bellissimi!
Once again thank you for your creativity and share it with us. kisses
WOW!!!
Beautiful work. Who would want to eat them.
LOVE THEM!