First Halloween Baking

& already I feel like some kind of housewife. Oh goodness me. (~_~;)

anyhoos, I've baked cut-out sugar cookies and dead witchy fingers so far. The cookies have yet to be iced. But the fingers were all done in a day, today! Baked & all dusted with cocoa powder. *grins* They'll come up last though. Cause I finally got to use the cool new cookie cutter + stamper that Ben bought for Jer! ヽ(･∀･)ﾉ

Ben got them from Australia.

mouse over to stamp the cut out cookie! hehe ~

Bell cookie cutter turned ghost.
I had to improvise! Tulips don't make very nice halloween ghosts.. they make pac man ghosts better.. (._. )

That's not a worm in the jar of sugar, it's a vanilla pod. So I get vanilla sugar instead of regular white sugar.
Next to it is a 36" DAISO rolling pin & yes, I'm using disposable chopsticks as dowels. (´∀`;)
No, I didn't arrange the remaining dough into a face. I only noticed it when I was storing the cooled cookies.
Finally, I didn't use baking powder. Took it out by mistake. heh.

Next up is the dead witchy fingers! They might not all appear witchy.. I tried, but I believe it's all up to your imagination.. *meep!*

First batch
Steps; shaped, scored, stuck the nail on, brushed with egg white (none on the nail), baked, dusted while warm.

close up of the first batch... with it's missing finger nails.. meh ~

Second batch, I didn't dust all so I could see the difference with the Third batch..
Steps; shaped, scored, brushed with egg white, stuck the nail on, baked, dusted after totally cooled.

Third batch
Steps; shaped, scored, brushed with egg white (only fingertips), stuck the nail on, baked, dusted after totally cooled.

The verdict, brushing everything with the egg white is better & chopstick thin isn't very nice (breaks easily and doesn't look as scary)

The recipes I used come from the same website, http://cakejournal.com
For the cut out cookies; Vanilla Sugar Cookies.
For the dead witchy fingers; Halloween Dead Finger Cookies.

They're pretty much similar (the recipes). But I think I'll try making the dead witchy fingers in an air conditioned room the next time. The dough got really sticky halfway through making a tray of them. You've got to work super fast. I only got fast enough at the third batch. *pouts*

Time to head to bed now, I've got a Halloween USS to go to tomorrow! Whoopie~! ＼(^▽^＠)ノ



till the royal icing & cupcakes arrive..