I love to bake with my children and around Halloween the stores become filled with candy decorations, baking pans, molds, and kits. Here is an easy step-by-step guide on how to put on the perfect cookie and cupcake Halloween decorating play date.
1. Make Nicole MacPherson’s Pot Of Gold Chocolate Cupcakes. Use Halloween cupcake liners for fun.
2. Bake sugar cookies in the shapes of pumpkins and other Halloween shapes with cookie cutters. I found large pumpkin ones like these at Target. I love the sugar cookie mix from President’s Choice.
3. Put out containers of icing with lots of spoons and popsicle sticks for spreading, or make your own using Nicole MacPherson’s Pot of Gold Chocolate Cupcakes recipe.
4. Put out little bowls of sprinkles in Halloween colours and shapes.
5. Give each child a plate with a cookie and cupcake and let him or her decorate. I found these great stencils at Williams Sonoma to create spiders, bats, owls, and skulls on your treats.
6. Enjoy your treats together!
7. Send extra treats home in these cute boxes from Michael's.
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