Frankenstein Cookies {Quick & Easy)

A grandson was over the other day and asked if we could make Frankenstein cookies with my new cutter.  Of course I said "Yes"!  Since he wanted to decorate them and he just turned five, I thought it would be easier (and quicker) to minimize the frosting, so I colored the dough (as opposed to using royal icing as the green base).  By doing so, we were able to jump right into adding the fun details!

And fun it was!  On some of them I added noses made from dough, before baking. On others, I added green or purple gumdrop noses after the cookies were baked. Super simple!  Nearing the end of baking, I had a small amount of dough left, so made some mini monsters.  A rectangle petit four cutter was used, along with tiny candy eyes and mini m&m's  for the noses.

My grandson did a great job decorating his cookie (he only did one:)), but ate it up rather quickly before I could snap a photo.  He added black sanding sugar on top of the black details.

I was pretty happy with how they turned out, and besides being a snap to decorate, coloring the dough is also a great way to cut down on sugar...once in awhile anyway:)

Would you like to make your own green Frankensteins?

Frankenstein Cookies

Ingredients:
Sugar cookie dough
Green food gel
Black food gel
Various sizes of candy eyes
Gum drops
Green mini m&m candies (if you're making the mini monsters)
Royal Icing

Directions:
1.  While mixing your dough, add some green food gel (I used Wilton Leaf green), until you achieve a shade to your liking.
2.  Using a Frankenstein Cookie Cutter (or large rectangle, as I did here), roll out your dough and cut out your cookies.
3.  With a small amount of dough, shape a small round ball (or another shape) and place on cookie as the nose (if you are making a dough nose).
4.  After the cookies are baked and cooled, use the black tinted royal icing for the hair, mouth, scar and bolts. 
5.  Use some royal icing tinted with green gel to detail the ears and brow.
6.  Using a small dab of royal icing, adhere the eyes and nose to the face.

All done!  Pretty easy, huh? :)


Enjoy your cute cookies!

If you'd like to use royal icing to decorate the green monster, visit Sugarbelle's fabulous blog to get it just right!

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