Who said that gingerbread houses are only for the winter holidays?! Well... in this case we're making a sugar cookie haunted house. Halloween doesn't always have to be a spooky event. So, for this tutorial, we're making a fun and sweet treat.
Materials needed:
~ Baked sugar cookie pieces
~ Haunted house cookie template [HERE]
~ Royal Icing
~ Gel food coloring
~ purple, burgundy, black, green
~ Scribe
~ Round piping tips
~ Piping bags
~ Piping coupler
~ Edible food marker
~ Any fun edible decorative pieces to add
~ Parchment Paper
For this design, your royal icing consistency should be as follows (+ color mixing):
*Grey Purple Color - Add a small amount of purple food coloring to white icing. There should be two consistencies mixed for this - Medium and Flood.
*Grey - Add a small amount of black food coloring to white icing. This should be a stiff consistency.
*Burgundy - Stiff consistency.
*Green - Stiff consistency.
*White - Medium Consistency.
Step 1
Using the cookie template, roll out your chilled dough, and follow the template lines to cut out your house shape. I didn't cut out any windows because I wanted to include some royal icing windows in my design. Bake your dough chilled so that the cookie will keep its shape and not expand. Let them cool completely before adding any icing.
Step 2
Next, I drew the shapes of the windows with an edible marker. Flood the entire cookie, of course not including the windows, with the purple/grey icing. Use the scribe to make corners sharper and to mix out any air bubbles. Let dry completely.
Step 3
On parchment paper, pipe ghost shapes. Make them small enough to decorate the house. Let them dry completely before drawing faces with the edible marker.
Step 4
Once the icing on the walls are completely dried, fill in the windows with grey icing. At this point, you can begin adding the brick pattern icing to your walls. Starting at the top, create a line horizontally across the wall. Pipe another one under the first horizontal line. Within the two lines, add small vertical lines evenly apart. Make sure to stagger them like in the photo below! This takes some patience but adds so much detail!
Step 5
Using a piping tip 16 or a star tip, pipe some window boarders. Be creative and pipe a fun boarder!
Step 6
Now that your walls are finished, it's time to add details. I used white icing to pipe spider webs, attached the ghosts, piped rosettes, leaves, and spiders. At Walmart, I found fun little edible hard candy which you can see below. I used a small round tip to add little pieces of green grass at the bottom.
Step 7
It's time to assemble! Pipe the wall pieces together. I like to do one side at a time and wait until it's set before adding on more. Also... use whatever you can to help keep the walls in place!
Step 8
Once the house was assembled, I added a big squeeze of the purple icing for a gooey slimy effect on the top of the house. For the little door, have fun with it! Leave it plain, dress it up, or make it look funky!
Step 9
And finally, you have a cute spooky house!
