Icing ingredients

4 egg whites
1/2 tsp cream of tarter
1/2 tsp vanilla
4 1/2 C powder sugar
Orange and Black gel food coloring
3 disposable piping bags fitted with a number 2 tip
2 squeeze bottles
1 edible marker
1 container of halloween sprinkles

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees

Cover a cookie sheet with parchment paper and set aside

Using a standing mixer, cream together the butter, powder sugar, vanilla and egg and mix until combined and creamy

Using a large bowl, combined the flour, baking soda and cream of tarter

Gradually add in the dry ingredients and mix on low speed

Using your hands continue to mix until fully combined

Lightly flour a cutting board and knead the cookie dough a couple of times

Roll out the dough to about 1/2 inch thick

Cut out 12 Mickey heads and place onto a cookie sheet

Bake for 8 minutes or until lightly golden brown

Repeat steps until completely out of dough

Let cookies cool completely

Royal Icing Directions:

Using the standing mixer, combine the egg whites, cream of tarter, vanilla and powder sugar and mix until combined and stiff peaks form

Split icing into 3 bowls, only needing a about 3 tablespoons of white icing in the third bowl

Add 1-2 drops of black into one of the three bowls.

Add a few drops of Orange into the second bowl

Leave the third bowl white

Mix until the colors are blended and the shades you want

Scoop about 1/4 C of icing into their own bags. You should have 3 piping bags, one for Orange, Black, and white.

Add 2-4 tsp of water into the remaining icing bowls and mix until combined. Only the Orange and black are to be thinned

Pour the icing’s into squeeze bottles

Using the edible marker, draw out the lines for the base of the bucket, and ears. Like shown in the in-process image

Using the black piping bag, outline the ears

Using the Orange piping bag, outline the base of the cookie

Using the thinned orange icing, fill in the space of the orange outline

Using the thinned black icing, fill in the ears

Allow cookies to dry overnight

Next day, using the white icing pipe a white oval onto the space about the orange icing and draw the jack-o-lantern face using the black icing

Sprinkle the halloween sprinkles onto the white icing to create a “candy” look

Allow cookies to dry for a few hours before enjoying!