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Sugar Skulls Recipe

Delicious and fun sugar skulls
Prep Time20 minutes
Active Time10 minutes
refrigerating and decorating2 hours 30 minutes
Course: Snack
Cuisine: Mexican
Yield: 24
Calories: 688cal
Author: Melissa
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 for Decorating

  • 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
  • 1 tube of cookie icing black
  • 1 tub of cookie icing any color

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 325 degrees
  • In a large bowl – Cream the first 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 two 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

Ice cookies with white cookie icing
Add white Good-N-Plenty for teeth
Use gummy life savers or fruit soft puffs
Make an upside down heart for the nose with cookie icing 
Use black icing from a tube to add pupils for the eyes, a line across the teeth, dots and decorations to the sides of the sugar skulls
Use another color of icing from a tube to make more accents like dots, lines, and curly lines. 
 
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