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    Home » Recipes » Cookies

    Vampirina Sugar Cookies

    Published: Oct 15, 2018 · Modified: Sep 19, 2023 by Tiffany Dahle · This post may contain affiliate links.

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    These adorable Halloween sugar cookies are inspired by the equally sweet Vampirina from Disney Jr. The perfect not-too-spooky festive treat for kids this season.

    Sugar cookie platter with black bat sugar cookies with purple polka dot hearts and spider web shapes.

    Even though my girls are getting bigger, I love that the occasional Disney Jr. show still hits the rotation once in a while.

    Little Pea fell in love with Vampirina when it first launched and thanks to the Hotel Transylvania movies, she has been obsessed with friendly vampires.

    She chose to go as a sweet (not scary) girl vampire for her Halloween costume this year.

    I thought it would be fun to make a platter of sugar cookies together that was a twist on the season's spookier themes.

    These playful purple polka dot and black bat cookies are inspired by Vampirina's colors and the spider web motif of her dress.

    They are part of our 2-color Cookies collection--my way of making fancy sugar cookies with kids without losing your mind!

    Even if you are a sugar cookie beginner, I promise you can make these impressive Halloween sugar cookies with just a few simple tricks.

    Jump to:
    • Ingredients
    • Supplies You Need
    • Mix the Perfect Colors for the Icing
    • How to Decorate Vampirina Cookies
    • Black Bat Cookie with Purple Bow
    • Purple Polka Dot Heart
    • Black and White Spider Web Cookie
    • Baking with Kids
    • More Sugar Cookie Design Ideas
    • Halloween Recipes for Kids
    • 📖 Recipe
    • 💬 Comments

    Ingredients

    To make these adorable sugar cookies, you will need:

    • Sugar Cookie Dough: You can make my sugar cookie dough recipe or you could keep things easy and buy refrigerated cookie dough at the grocery store or a local bakery.
    • Royal Icing: For these cookie designs, you'll really need a batch of royal icing. Don't worry, I've also got all the best tips for learning how to decorate cookies with royal icing for beginners.
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    Supplies You Need

    Cookie Cutters

    The cookie cutters I used are no longer available, but I found nearly perfect substitutions. You can find the best cookie cutter options here:

    • The bat cookie cutter
    • The spider web cookie cutter
    • The offset heart cookie cutter

    Special Cookie Decorating Tools

    • Royal icing scribe for making the spider web patterns
    • Royal icing bottles with #2 tips
    • Wilton #1 tip for the bow & spider web pattern

    Mix the Perfect Colors for the Icing

    The white is just the base color of the royal icing recipe so I don't count that towards our 2-color rule.

    For the black, I used AmeriColor's Super Black food gel.

    For the purple, I used 2 drops of AmeriColor's Violet, 1 drop of Tulip Red, and 1 drop of Fuscia Pink.

    You can find all the AmeriColor colors right here.

    Sweet & Spooky: adorable Vampirina sugar cookies for Halloween

    How to Decorate Vampirina Cookies

    Since creating a Vampirina look-alike cookie requires a depth of skill a beginner baker usually doesn't have, I wanted to make this an "inspired by" cookie platter.

    I used three adorable designs for the cookie set all to mimic the adorable Vampirina color palette and theme:

    A sugar cookie platter has black bat cookies, black and white spider web cookies, and purple heart cookies with white polka dots.

    Black Bat Cookie with Purple Bow

    I piped and flooded the bat cookie all-black and let it dry for several hours before piping on the dots for the eyes and the little purple bow with a #1 tip.

    Purple Polka Dot Heart

    I piped and flooded the cookie in purple and then added the white polka dots using the easy wet-on-wet method.

    It is SUCH a satisfying way to decorate, the kids LOVE this one.

    Black and White Spider Web Cookie

    I piped and flooded the cookie in white and then used the wet-on-wet method to add a scalloped line of black that matched the outline of the cookie for the outer row and a second scalloped line a little farther in toward the center.

    I added a tiny squiggle of black directly in the middle. I used the scribe tool to pull through the icing back and forth to make the thin delicate lines between the rows of black.

    NOTE: You could use a toothpick instead of the scribe tool, but in my experience there is a huge difference and the scribe is absolutely worth the money.

    It is more precise and doesn't cling to the icing the same way a toothpick does. You can get your own scribe here.

    Baking with Kids

    As I mentioned before, these sugar cookie creations are a collaborative effort between my girls and me.

    We imagine our projects and plan them out before we begin. Little Pea, in particular, has really enjoyed the outlet for creativity.

    A young girl practices piping with purple icing on a piece of parchment paper.

    Our designs have been super simple to start, but we use the leftover piping icing to practice our handiwork so we can slowly increase the difficulty of the designs.

    When we run out of sugar cookies but still have leftover frosting, I break out squares of graham crackers and let the kids go wild. Little Pea enjoyed making these designs so much, she asked me to post them here for you to see!

    The young girl's attempt at decorating cookies on pieces of graham crackers.

    Before she started on her bat cookie, she told me: "Mommy, there is such a thing as white bats, they are very rare."

    Be sure to take a close look at her heart cookie--she used the scribe tool to turn her polka dots into little hearts!

    That was all her idea and I LOVE it. We'll definitely be using that in a future design.

    Sweet & Spooky: adorable Vampirina sugar cookies for Halloween

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    📖 Recipe

    Sugar cookie platter with black bat sugar cookies with purple polka dot hearts and spider web shapes.

    Vampirina Cookies

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    Adorable sugar cookie platter inspired by Disney Junior's Vampirina. These adorable bat cookies, spiderweb cookies, and purple heart cookies would be perfect for a Vampirina birthday party or Halloween party treat.
    TOTAL TIME 1 hour hour 10 minutes minutes
    PREP TIME 1 hour hour
    COOK TIME 10 minutes minutes
    YIELD 36 cookies
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    Ingredients
      

    • 1 batch sugar cookie dough homemade or store bought
    • 1 batch royal icing
    • Purple food coloring or gel
    • Black food coloring or gel

    Instructions

    Bake the Sugar Cookies

    • Prepare the sugar cookie dough as directed and roll it out to ¼ inch thickness.
    • Cut a variety of cookie shapes including bats, hearts, and spider webs.
    • Bake as directed.

    Prep the Royal Icing

    • Prepare the royal icing as directed. Separate the batch into three bowls. Leave one plain white, tint one black and tint the other one purple.
    • Place piping thickness royal icing into piping bags for all three colors.
    • Thin the remaining royal icing to flooding consistency and add them to three separate icing bottles.

    Decorate the Vampirina Cookies

    • To make a vampirina inspired cookie tray, you will include designs for black bats with purple bows, a spider web cookie, and a purple heart with white polka dots.

    Black Bat Cookies:

    • Pipe black around the perimeter of the cookie and flood the cookie with black. Once dry, use the purple piping icing to decorate with a purple bow.

    Spider Web Cookies:

    • Pipe white icing around the perimeter of the cookie. Flood the cookie with white icing. Drop black flood icing in a spider web shape and pull the connecting lines with a toothpick. (See photos in post for visual instructions.)

    Purple Heart Cookies:

    • Pipe purple icing around the perimeter of the heart cookie. Flood with purple icing. While it is still wet, drop white flood icing in polka dot patterns.
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    AUTHORTiffany Dahle

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