Sugar Skulls Recipe
Delicious and fun sugar skulls
Yield: 24
Calories: 688cal
Cost: $15
Materials
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1 cup butter
- 1 cup oil
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- ½ tsp. almond extract
- 4&1/2 cups flour
- 1 tsp. baking powder
Icing
- 4 cups powdered sugar
- 1 tbsp. almond extract +1 tsp. additional added to this
- 8-10 tsp. water
Candy Ideas
- 1 cup Soft Puffs
- 1 cup Good & Plenty
- Chocolate Melts - black and at least 2 other colors
- ½ cup Non-Pareils Black and other assorted colors
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 325 degrees
- In a large bowl – Cream the fist 4 ingredients
- Add the egg, vanilla, and almond – mix in
- In another large bowl, mix the flour & baking powder
- Gradually add the dry ingredients to the wet, and mix
- Chill in the refrigerator for at least one hour
- When you are ready, roll the dough out between to sheets of wax paper *my little trick to avoid sticky dough on the rolling pin!
- And…cut the shapes out with a skull shaped cookie cutter
- *When the dough warms up – and it does pretty quickly – pop it back into the refrigerator. I like to take half of the dough out, roll, and cut…then take the other half out to finish
- Bake for 8-10 minutes
- Mix the icing by mixing the powdered sugar, almond extract, water and food coloring together. *Add water gradually until the icing is the consistency you like
- When the cookies have cooled – decorate using the tips below! :)
Notes
nutrition facts are only an estimate
Nutrition
Calories: 688cal | Carbohydrates: 118g | Protein: 11g | Fat: 18g | Saturated Fat: 6g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 3g | Monounsaturated Fat: 8g | Trans Fat: 0.3g | Cholesterol: 27mg | Sodium: 88mg | Potassium: 121mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 36g | Vitamin A: 246IU | Calcium: 32mg | Iron: 5mg