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Hocus Pocus Cookies

Hocus Pocus Cookies are a sugar cookie that is decorated with a homemade buttercream. These Hocus Pocus Halloween cookies are a must for your next Halloween party. Whip them up and watch kids and adults get excited to bite into these cookies.
Course Desserts
Cuisine American
Keyword halloween cookies, hocus pocus cookies, hocus pocus halloween cookies
Prep Time 45 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 55 minutes
Servings 10
Calories 400kcal
Author Kelsey

Equipment

  • Disposable piping bags
  • Star piping tip (I used Wilton #32)
  • Circle cookie cutter
  • Rectangle cookie cutter

Ingredients

Cookies

  • 16 ounce package store bought sugar cookie dough
  • ½ cup all-purpose flour

Buttercream Frosting

  • 1 cup salted butter two sticks, room temperature
  • 2-3 cups powdered sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 6 drops red food coloring gel
  • 4 drops blue food coloring gel
  • 7 drops yellow food coloring gel
  • 2 drops green food coloring gel

Decorating Ingredients

  • 2 3.8 ounce bottles Halloween sprinkles
  • 10 ounce chocolate sprinkles
  • 7 ounce package white chocolate melting wafers
  • 7 ounce package milk chocolate flavored melting wafers
  • 0.88 ounce package small candy eyeballs

Instructions

Cookie Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350*F, or the temperature recommended by your packaged dough.
  • Prepare two cookie sheets by lining them with parchment paper, a baking mat or non-stick foil. Set aside.
  • Add ¼ cup flour to sugar cookie dough and knead to incorporate.
  • Dust your clean surface with flour.
  • Roll cookie dough into a ball and set it on the dusted surface. Dust the top of the cookie dough with more flour.
  • Roll out dough to ¼ inch thickness.
  • Cut out shapes with the cookie cutters. You should try to have twice as many circle cookies as you do rectangle ones. If you run out of room, remove the cookies you have cut out, and reshape the dough into a ball. Roll out the dough again, and continue doing this until you use up all of the dough.
  • Space the cookies on a lined baking sheet, leaving space for them to spread a little.
  • Bake according to the package instructions - approximately 10-12 mintues
  • While the cookies bake and cool, make the buttercream.

Buttercream Frosting

  • Put the room temperature butter and vanilla extract into a mixer with the whisk attachment. Add powdered sugar 1/2 cup at a time, until the buttercream is sweet enough to your liking. Mix until well-incorporated.
  • Separate the buttercream into four bowls of equal amounts. You will be making orange, yellow, purple, and gray colors.
  • In the first bowl, add two drops of red and two drops of yellow to make orange.
  • In the second bowl, add three drops of yellow coloring.
  • In the third bowl, add two drops of red and two drops of blue.
  • In the fourth bowl, add two drops of red, two blue, two green, and two yellow. You are trying to achieve a gray color. For any frosting colors, feel free to add more or less coloring to achieve your desired color.

Decorations Instructions

  • Melt the white chocolate wafers according to package directions.
  • Dip the circle cookies into the white chocolate (spread around as needed, you want the entire surface of the cookie covered.
  • Dip the cookie into the Halloween sprinkles, coating the surface.
  • For the Winifred cookies, add the orange buttercream to a bag with the star tip. Squeeze out a little at a time to make stars, varying in size. Continue doing this and forming the shape of her hair as shown in the photos.
  • For the Sarah cookies, add the yellow buttercream to a bag with the star tip. Going very slowly, draw the outline of her hair. Then, go over with a second layer making small strokes.
  • For the Mary cookies, add the purple buttercream to a bag with the star tip. Make a cyclone shape, tapering off to one side at the top. Go over the top with star dots to fill in the gaps.
  • Melt the chocolate wafers according to package directions.
  • Spread the chocolate onto the rectangle cookies and let the chocolate cool and harden.
  • Add the rest of the melted chocolate into a piping bag. Cut the tip off of the bag to make a tiny to small opening. Draw the stitching onto the spell book cookies.
  • Dip the cookies into the chocolate sprinkles.
  • Add a drop of chocolate for the eye and add the eyeball candy.
  • Add the gray frosting to a piping bag with a star tip. Pipe out the spine and the corner bindings to the spell book cookies.
  • Enjoy!

Notes

Cookie Cutters - I used a square and circle cookie cutter for these, but you can use different shapes if you want. 
Sugar Cookies - You can use any other style of cookie or even use homemade sugar cookie dough if you need. 

Nutrition

Serving: 1g | Calories: 400kcal | Carbohydrates: 55g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 20g | Saturated Fat: 13g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 5g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 49mg | Sodium: 147mg | Potassium: 13mg | Fiber: 0.2g | Sugar: 49g | Vitamin A: 567IU | Calcium: 7mg | Iron: 0.3mg