Gluten Free Halloween Sugar Cookies Recipe

Gluten Free Halloween Sugar Cookies Recipe

As Halloween 2024 is getting closer, I wanted to share another Halloween themed recipe. This is my Gluten Free Halloween Sugar Cookies Recipe. These are sugar cookies shaped by Halloween cookie cutters and dipped in gluten free royal icing and melted chocolate.

I love using cookie cutters and the shapes that they make in the dough. I had lots of fun making (and eating) these sugar cookies and I hope you do too!

If you are looking for more autumn, Halloween based recipes feel free to check out my Gluten Free Halloween Trick or Treat Candy Cupcakes Recipe and Gluten Free, Vegan & Xanthan Gum Free Pumpkin Mug Cake Recipe.

Now… drum roll… onto the recipe…. 🙂

Recipe Sheet

Ingredients

• ¾ tsp. of baking soda
• 160g of unsalted butter
• 1 egg
• 310g of gluten free rice flour
• 1 tsp of vanilla extract (optional)
• 175g of white sugar
• A pinch of salt (optional)

Method

Stage 1 – Making the Sugar Cookie Dough

1. Beat the butter and the sugar into the mixing bowl and ensure the mixture is consistent.  
2. Next add the egg and vanilla extract (optional) into the mixing bowl and mix thoroughly.
3. Add the remaining dry ingredients (baking soda and rice flour) into mixing bowl and make sure the mixture is evenly distributed.
4. For the best results, refrigerate the dough for at least a couple of hours, preferably overnight.

Stage 2 – Baking the Sugar Cookies

1. Preheat the oven to 180°C (160°C fan/ gas 4).
2. Sprinkle your surface with flour and rolling pin with about 10g of flour and roll out the dough to about ½ cm thickness.
3. Cut out shapes in the dough using your Halloween cookie cutters.
4. Transfer the shaped cookies onto baking tray/s keeping them at least 2 ½ cm apart.
5. Bake in the oven for about 20 minutes.
6. Check to see if the cookies are fully cooked by placing a wooden pick/ cake tester into the middle of each. If they come out clean, then you are good to go onto the next step!
7. Let the cookies cool in the baking tray for about 5 minutes and then transfer them to a cooling rack and leave them until they are fully cooled.

Stage 3 – Decorating the Sugar Cookies

1. Melt a bar of chocolate of your choice in a microwave safe bowl. (I melted my favourite chocolate bar, Ombar Coco M’lk bar for about 30 seconds.)
2. Make a bowl of royal icing. Mix the egg whites, icing sugar, lemon juice and vanilla extract (optional) to make a consistent royal icing.
3. Dip each of your cookies in either the bowl of melted chocolate or the bowl of royal icing.
4. Using a fine brush (or a toothpick), paint eyes and a mouth onto each of your cookies using either melted chocolate or royal icing, the alternative to what the cookie has already been dipped in.
5. Let the sugar cookies cool at room temperature for about 15 minutes.
6. Next, enjoy!

Tips and Tricks

• Bring the butter out of the fridge about 15 minutes in advance of its use in both respective steps. This will help to soften the butter to make the mixing process easier, especially if you don’t have an electric whisk, electric mixer or food processor.
• If you want to, you can sieve ingredients like the flour and the sugars to have a smoother batter. Really, it is up to you.
• Cover your baking trays in parchment paper/ tin foil to prevent the uncooked shaped cookie dough from sticking to your baking trays.
• Any assortment of Halloween cookie cutters would work for this bake. Chose any designs you like.
• Remember this is a quick bake, so keep a thorough eye on the oven when cooking, as they can easily burn if you are not careful.
• If you want to add toppings (especially sprinkles like hundreds of thousands) to your cookies, that is more than fine :).

Whether to Add Vanilla Extract….

I personally added vanilla extract to my batch of Halloween sugar cookies as I love the scent and flavour, which vanilla adds. However, if your ethos is that the simple things in life that are the best then it is completely fine to not add the vanilla extract.

To Add a Pinch of Salt or to Not a Pinch of Salt, That is the Question….

I know that some people love that sweet and salty combination, and feel like the salt really brings out the flavour of the other ingredients. However, it is completely up to you. I know a lot of people also hate the sweet and salty flavour combo, and just prefer sweet to be sweet. Hence why it is completely optional. Though I personally don’t add a pinch of salt when making my Gluten Free Halloween Sugar Cookies Recipe.

Storage

• The sugar cookies can be stored for 2 days when left out at room temperature and stored in an air-tight container. If you store them in a fridge, they can potentially last up to a week.
• Additionally, this is just guidance. So, if it looks a bit dodgy, you don’t like the look of it or if it has been out for a while, then unfortunately, I think that is one for the bin. When it comes to cooking and baking a bit of common sense will go a long way. It is always better to be safe than sorry. Additionally, when storing always use an air-tight container, otherwise these times do not apply.

Thank You For Reading! 🙂

Thank you so much for reading my Gluten Free Halloween Sugar Cookies Recipe. Hopefully, you will give my recipe a try and get to experience what it is like to eat the food of VIPs. Be sure to comment and tell me how the recipe went.

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P.S. I will be making another Halloween themed post next week. (Note: I publish new content on Mondays!)

P.P.S. Just as a disclaimer, I have not been paid, gifted or given anything to write about any particular product. These are my own opinions, I have paid for every product I have mentioned and this is not an advertisement.