Soft + Easy Halloween Sugar Cookies With Whole Wheat Flour

No tips right here: These entire wheat Halloween sugar cookies are tender, tasty, and sure, kid-approved.

The secret ingredient is entire wheat pastry flour, which creates a young texture and delicate taste. (Don’t have it or can’t discover it? I offer you a number of choices under.)

Ingredients for Halloween Cookies

• Butter: I exploit salted butter. If you employ unsalted butter, add 1/4 teaspoon salt to the dry elements.
• Sugar: This recipe requires white sugar
• Egg: Ideally at room temperature
• Vanilla extract
• Baking powder
• Flour: You have a number of choices right here–you should utilize:
  • Whole wheat pastry flour OR
  • Half common entire wheat flour, half all objective flour OR
  • All all-purpose flour

How to Make Whole Wheat Halloween Sugar Cookies

Line your baking sheets with parchment paper or silicone baking mats (equivalent to Silpat mats).

In a medium bowl, stir collectively the flour and baking powder and put aside.

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In a big bowl (or bowl of a stand mixer) cream butter and sugar properly along with your mixer on medium pace. Then add the egg and vanilla extract and blend properly.

Add the dry elements to the moist elements, including one cup of the flour combination at a time and mixing after every addition. Be certain all of the flour on the backside of the bowl is combined into the dough, however don’t over-mix.

Do not chill. That’s vital! This dough doesn’t work when chilled.

Divide the dough in half and kind two dough balls. Roll the primary one onto a calmly floured floor about 1/8″ thick. This is a tender, moist dough so ensure that each your floor and your rolling pin are floured. (Cover the bowl with the opposite dough ball utilizing both a kitchen towel or plastic wrap.)

Using cookie cutters, lower out shapes within the rolled-out dough. Keep rolling out remaining dough scraps till it’s gone. Repeat with the second dough ball.

Place shapes on the ready baking sheets and bake cookies for 6-7 minutes. They could also be ever-so-slightly golden brown–and will even look underdone–however if you need them to be tender, you don’t wish to over-bake them! If you favor a crisper cookie, enhance the bake time by a few minutes, or till they’re extra golden brown.

Cool fully on a wire rack earlier than frosting.

Halloween Cookies FAQ

Can I exploit common entire wheat flour?

I’ve examined this cookie recipe a number of methods. It works greatest with both ALL wheat pastry flour or ALL all-purpose flour or half common entire wheat flour and half all-purpose flour.

What is entire wheat pastry flour?

Whole wheat pastry flour is constituted of a milder white wheat and has decrease protein content material than common entire wheat flour. It’s nice for cookies, muffins, and desserts (however not yeast bread). You’ll discover it subsequent to the flour within the baking part of the shop or on Amazon.

What can I frost these cookies with?

I used royal icing for the cookies proven right here.

How do I retailer these cookies?

Place cookies in an hermetic container at room temperature and eat inside 5-7 days for very best quality.

How lengthy do leftover cookies final?

These cookies will keep tender for days when stored in an hermetic container. They’re greatest if eaten inside 5-7 days.

Can I freeze these entire wheat sugar cookies?

Yes. Freeze the baked, unfrosted cookies in a freezer bag, urgent the additional air out earlier than sealing. Defrost cookies, then ice with frosting.

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