Soft + Easy Halloween Sugar Cookies With Whole Wheat Flour

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

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

Components for Halloween Cookies

• Butter: I exploit salted butter. When you use unsalted butter, add 1/4 teaspoon salt to the dry substances.
• Sugar: This recipe requires white sugar
• Egg: Ideally at room temperature
• Vanilla extract
• Baking powder
• Flour: You could have a couple of choices right here–you need to use:
  • Entire wheat pastry flour OR
  • Half common entire wheat flour, half all function flour OR
  • All all-purpose flour

Learn how to Make Entire Wheat Halloween Sugar Cookies

Line your baking sheets with parchment paper or silicone baking mats (akin 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 effectively along with your mixer on medium velocity. Then add the egg and vanilla extract and blend effectively.

Add the dry substances to the moist substances, 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 blended into the dough, however don’t over-mix.

Don’t chill. That’s necessary! This dough doesn’t work when chilled.

Divide the dough in half and kind two dough balls. Roll the primary one onto a frivolously floured floor about 1/8″ thick. This can be a delicate, moist dough so make certain each your floor and your rolling pin are floured. (Cowl the bowl with the opposite dough ball utilizing both a kitchen towel or plastic wrap.)

Utilizing cookie cutters, reduce out shapes within the rolled-out dough. Preserve 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 be ever-so-slightly golden brown–and should even look underdone–however if you need them to be delicate, you don’t wish to over-bake them! When you choose 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 couple of methods. It really 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’s entire wheat pastry flour?

Whole wheat pastry flour is comprised of a milder white wheat and has decrease protein content material than common entire wheat flour. It’s nice for cookies, muffins, and muffins (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 delicate for days when saved in an hermetic container. They’re greatest if eaten inside 5-7 days.

Can I freeze these entire wheat sugar cookies?

Sure. 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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