Do you love Halloween as much as I do? To celebrate the spookiest and sweetest time of year, I’m sharing how to make Minnie Mouse Witch Cookies for Halloween. Plus, I’ve got a secret for making sugar cookies when you don’t have a cookie cutter.

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Halloween is my favorite holiday of them all!  It’s all about the sweets, dressing up, and watching Hocus Pocus on repeat.  It’s true that I’m buying bags of candy for trick or treaters, but I love making things at home also.

These Minnie Sugar Cookies feature Minnie Mouse wearing a witch’s hat.  Minnie’s pretty much my spirit animal, and so I’m smitten with her Halloween costume at Disneyland.

I mean, how cute is Minnie dressed as a witch?   There are super cute Minnie Mouse Witch Cupcakes available during the Halloween season as well.  We found these at Marceline’s at Downtown Disney.

To honor the mouse with the most this Halloween season, these Minnie Mouse Witch Sugar Cookies are perfect!

I should probably hide this “secret” for the end of this post with a big reveal, but I am pretty pumped.  No cookie cutter? No problem!  You can use any design as a template.  Roll out your dough as normal, and use a knife to trace the design.

Minnie Mouse Witch Cookies for Halloween

Ingredients:

• 1 c unsalted sweet cream butter, softened
• 1 1/2 c powdered sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 egg
• 3 c flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp cream of tartar

Royal Icing Ingredients:

• 4 egg whites
• 1/2 tsp cream of tartar
• 1/2 tsp vanilla
• 4 1/2 c powdered sugar
• orange, purple, & black gel food coloring
• 3 piping bags, fitted with #2 tip
• 3 squeeze bottles
• edible marker

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Prep a cookie sheet with parchment paper and set aside.

Using a stand mixer, combine sugar, butter, egg, and vanilla.  Mix until creamy and well combined.

In a large bowl, combine the flour, cream of tartar, and baking soda.

Mix dry ingredients into wet ingredients slowly, on low speed. It can help to finish mixing the dough by hand.

Lightly flour a cutting board and knead the dough a couple of times.

Roll dough to 1/2 inch thick, and begin cutting your shape.  A cookie cutter like this one makes for easy cuts on multiple cookies.  Like I mentioned above, you can always print out the design you’d like and cut it out.

Decorating:

Using a stand mixer, combine egg whites, cream of tartar, vanilla, and powdered sugar.  Mix until well combined and stiff peaks form.

Split icing into three bowls.  Add food coloring to the three separate bowls & combine.

Scoop 1/4 cup of each into separate piping bags.  The remaining will be thinned for filling in designs.  Add 2-4 tsp of water to the icing bowls, mix, and add to squeeze bottles.

Your edible marker will allow you to draw your design onto the cookie.  Don’t worry if it’s not perfect at first, you’ll be covering it with icing.

Pipe purple for the hat, orange for the buckle, and black for the rest of Minnie.

Using your thinned icing, squeeze icing to fill in your design.

Let dry overnight before enjoying.

Disney Halloween Treats to Make at Home

Mickey Pumpkin Donuts

Sally Sugar Cookies

Mickey Candy Corn Sugar Cookies

Looking for more Mickey Mouse baking ideas? 

Minnie, you’re seriously the cutest!

If you’re looking to bring a little extra magic to your Halloween baking, let these Minnie in costume inspired cookies top your baking list.