Happy Halloween w/ Mom's Sugar Cookies

I've been craving my mom's sugar cookies for months and decided last week would be the perfect time to make some Halloween sugar cookies to enjoy and share with others.

One of my favorite things about this recipe is that the cookies are ready to roll and bake as soon as the dough is mixed. You don't have to refrigerate the dough and wait hours before you can bake!

My kids all wanted to help with the cookies and it was a fun project to do together.

Mom's Best Sugar Cookies Recipe

(This recipe is one my mom has made for as long as I can remember. The recipe calls for shortening, but I prefer to sub butter.)

Mix as for pie crust (I mix in my Kitchenaid)
2 cups of butter @ room temperature
6 cups of flour
1 teaspoon of salt
2 teaspoons of baking powder

Then add:
2 cups of sugar
2 beaten eggs
1 cup of evaporated milk soured with 1 Tablespoon of vinegar (mix evaporated milk and vinegar and let sit together for a few minutes)
1 teaspoon baking soda (mix this into the milk mixture and then add to batter - hold over bowl while mixing)
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon lemon juice

Mix and then roll out dough. I like thick cookies, so I keep the dough pretty thick.

Bake at 350 degrees for 8 minutes or until the top of the cookies are still white and the bottom of cookies are slightly browned. Do not over bake because soft cookies are the best.

Cream Cheese Frosting

While cookies are cooling, mix up the frosting with a mixer.

4 oz. cream cheese
1 box of powdered sugar
1 teaspoon of vanilla
A splash of milk

Mix the cream cheese, powdered sugar and vanilla. Then slowly add a splash of milk. Continue adding milk until the frosting is a thick and spreadable consistency. You can add food coloring if desired.

Everyone at our house gave these a big thumbs up!  Let me know if you try these and how you liked them.

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween!

Hope you are looking forward to a Happy Halloween today! Do you have any fun plans? Are you dressing up? I haven't really dressed up for years, but this year I bought a gypsy costume and I'm excited to wear it. May kids are really excited that I have a costume!

I've been collecting a bunch of fun Halloween ideas on Pinterest and thought that I'd share a few of my favorites with you today.

Frankenstein Rice Krispie Treats   from CraftGossip.com

I like that these treats are on sticks and displayed in a tin full of candy corn.

Printable Treat Toppers from Wants and Wishes Etsy Shop

The orange cheese balls are a fun Halloween colored treat.

Veggie Skeleton from Feeding Frenzy

There is a chance kids would eat a few veggies on Halloween with this cute guy at the table.

Mummy Juice Boxes from Parents.com

All you need is white electrical tape and googly eyes. This would be a fun surprise in your kid's lunch box.


Chocolate Spider Web Cake in a Jar from I am Baker

The webs don't look too hard although they would take some patience.

Halloween Mason Jars from Every Creative Endevor

These look easy and would it be cool to line the driveway with these on Halloween.

Mummy Pretzels from Bright Ideas

This looks like a fun food craft that the kids could make with me.

I didn't get to make fun Halloween food this year, but now I'm set with a bunch of fun ideas form next year.

Hope you enjoy the day and have a few pieces of your favorite candy!

Embellished Treat Holders

With Halloween almost here, I guess I have candy on the brain. There are a bunch of scrapbook clam shell  packaging things here at my house and I thought they'd be perfect to hold a few bits of candy.

I pulled out all of my Fancy Pants Oct. 31st goodies and quickly put together several treat holders. With rub-ons on the front and paper on the inside, there really were fast projects.

It was fun adding bits of ribbon or buttons to finish off the design.

Since the paper is all double sided, that meant that the back of the project was already decorated too. I just added a few stickers and design embellishments to finish it off.

We gave these out along with some baked treats when we BOOed a couple of neighbors. We love the tradition of getting BOOed and BOOing our neighbors at Halloween time. If you want to start up this tradition in your neighborhood, the TomKat Studio has a fun free printable that you can use with instruction on how it works.

Hope you are having fun getting ready for Halloween!