These chocolate sugar cookie skeletons are so delicious and they look AMAZING, perfect for Halloween!
Ingredients
Cookies
2⅓ cups all-purpose flour
⅓ cup cocoa powder
¼ teaspoon salt
¾ cup soft butter
1 cup white sugar
2 large eggs
1 tsp pure vanilla extract
6 oz melted bittersweet or semisweet chocolate
Decoration
Store bought vanilla frosting or homemade royal icing
M&Ms or any candies of your choice
Instructions
Sift together the flour, cocoa powder and salt together in a medium bowl; set aside.
In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until fluffy and beat in the room temperature eggs one at a time. Scrape down the sides of the bowl as necessary.Add the vanilla and while the mixer is running, drizzle in the melted chocolate, blending until everything is uniform and smooth.
Dump in the dry ingredients and use a spatula to fold everything together into a dough.
Divide the dough into two pieces and place each half of the dough onto a sheet of plastic wrap, forming it into a disk, wrapping it up and placing it into the fridge to chill for about an hour.
When you are ready to cake the cookies, take the dough out of the fridge and let it sit on the counter for 10 minutes, then roll the dough out to about ½ a centimeter or ¾ a centimeter onto a floured surface.
Cut out the cookies, place them on a baking sheet and bake them for 10-15 minutes, until they are slightly puffed and set around the edges.
Transfer the cookies to a wire rack to cool, then begin frosting them by filling a plastic bag with icing to decorate the cookies.
For the skeleton design, pipe a big blob of frosting on the face of the gingerbread man, then draw thin lines along the rib cage, arms and legs. For a mummy design, simply zig zag the icing across the cookies.
Once you are done frosting them, stick the candy on the cookies before the icing has a chance to dry/harden completely. After this step, you can finally devour them!
Recipe by The Chewy Life at https://www.thechewylife.com/chocolate-skeleton-sugar-cookies/