10 Easy Halloween Sugar Cookie Design Ideas
Decorate a batch of Halloween sugar cookies with these easy design ideas. With just 2 accent colors and a batch of white icing, you're ready to create not-so-spooky ghosts, pumpkins, bats, witch hats, and so much more.
Looking to have a little fall baking fun and want to bake a batch of sweet Halloween sugar cookies?
These easy design ideas are just perfect for beginner bakers or cookie decorating with kids for the spooky season.
You can make classic Halloween cookie platters with bats, ghosts, witches, and so much more with these fun ideas.
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Why These are the Best Cookie Designs
I think that decorating sugar cookies should be fun and stress-free.
Of all the design inspiration out there, I think these are the best Halloween sugar cookie design ideas because:
- Simple Cookie Cutter Shapes: Each design can be recreated with a basic cutter shape like a pumpkin or ghost. There's even a circle and square cutter option! No specialty cutters required.
- Just 2 Accent Colors: When I decorate sugar cookies, I like to keep things easy. There are so many elegant cookie platters that only require a batch of white icing and 2 accent colors. All of these designs will work perfectly for that.
- Just Add Sprinkles: If your color-loving heart just can't handle the 2 accent color rule, these designs would be extra adorable with sprinkled accents.
Best Cut Out Sugar Cookie Recipe
If you want to make decorated sugar cookies from scratch, you want a cut out sugar cookie recipe that is going to be worthy of your time.
This recipe is so great because you can make the dough ahead and even freeze it for easier cookie decorating later.
Royal Icing Decorating Basics
Don't be intimidated by decorating sugar cookies with royal icing.
Just start with my easy royal icing recipe and learn a few simple tricks for getting started:
Sugar Cookie Decorating with Kids
If you plan to decorate Halloween sugar cookies with the kids, be sure to follow my helpful baking timeline to keep things easy breezy.
Also? Check out my all time favorite cookie cutters for kids. Several of those shapes will work perfectly for the Halloween cookie designs we're about to look at.
10 Easy Halloween Cookies Design Ideas
Sweet and simple Halloween sugar cookie design that use just one batch of white icing with two accent colors.
Mix and match the color palettes with these easy cookie shapes for a stunning Halloween cookie platter for your Halloween party or Trick or Treat Night goodies.
This sweet and simple sugar cookie collection features friendly pumpkins, ghosts, witch hats, and candy.
Just Two Colors: Pink & Orange
Mix and match a delicate pink icing and a soft orange icing for the base designs. You can easily add touches of black using a prepared black icing tube.
My spooky Halloween cookie tray is inspired by Disney Junior's Vamparina but this would work just perfectly for Trick or Treat, too.
Just 2 Colors: Purple and Black
All black bats and all purple hearts can both be decorated with drops of wet on wet white royal icing.
Create the black and white spider webs with the same technique.
For a grown up Halloween cookie, why not make sweet orange pumpkins with coffee cups of pumpkin spice lattes??
I love the all-white and all-orange pumpkins mixed with the teal coffee cups.
Just 2 Colors: Orange and Teal
You could use another accent color for the teal if you want a brighter palette, but I love the combo of orange and light blue.
There's something particularly magical about purple and pink together for a Halloween cookie palette.
Just 2 Colors: Purple and Pink
The sweet witch hats, ghosts with glasses, and pumpkins with stars can all be made with just the two colors of icing.
If you're looking to make a personalized cookie for special Halloween treats, these sweetie pie ghost cookies would be super easy to do.
Just 2 Colors: Orange and Black
You could make the name bubble any background color you want, but I love the orange and black combo for Halloween.
Getting tired of pumpkins yet? How about a Halloween caramel apple instead??
I think this is the most clever use for an apple shaped cookie cutter ever.
Just 2 Colors: Green and Light Brown/Orange
If you tint the icing green, you could make sassy green caramel apples with green leaves. If you skip the leaf decoration, you could do a red apple with caramel instead.
For all the witch lovers out there, these darling magic potion bottles are the perfect match for that sweet witch hat cookie.
Just 2 Colors: Orange and Black
You could make the potion bottle any color you want, green or dark purple could be especially fun.
True creativity shines when you use a simple square or circle shaped cookie cutter and still find all new ways to decorate them for the holiday.
Just 2 Colors: Pink and Black
I love that the backdrop of these cookies is a pretty pink because it makes the black cats and black spiders really pop.
A magic cauldron sugar cookie is perhaps one of the easiest 1-color sugar cookie designs ever!
Decorate the cauldron with black icing and then use a colorful sprinkle blend for the potion. Adding googly eyes to the mix? Brilliant.
Finally, these adorable Trick or Treat pumpkin bags use sprinkles to bring the candy colors to the decoration.
They would still look darling without the actual "Trick or Treat" message on the front if your handwriting isn't as steady as you'd like.
More Holiday Sugar Cookie Design Ideas
Looking for more 2-color palette easy sugar cookie designs? You won't want to miss these other fun holiday ideas:
