My 2.5yr old son doesn’t have the fine motor skills to decorate cookies with any precision, but I still wanted him to be involved in making our Halloween monster cookies.
I made a basic sugar cookie dough (I used Alton Brown’s recipe). Then I rolled out the dough (OK, my mother did this part – I *hate* rolling out dough) and then I cut it into long strips. This was inspired by a post from The Decorated Cookie for making monster cookie sticks. Ours wouldn’t be as beautiful, but it did at least suggest a way to involve my toddler.
After the cookies had cooked and cooled, I prepared them for decorating by pushing them altogether in a block, and placing some kitchen foil underneath the cooling rack.
I got some icing gel pens and F had a good time squeezing them all over the cookies.
Then we added some candy eyes to make the cookies into monsters!
These were really easy to decorate and looked SO cute! Clean-up was really easy too, as there weren’t many drips from the gel icing, but there was also the foil underneath to catch any spillages. The comparatively light decoration didn’t make these cookies to sweet, either.
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Oh my god, these are just fabulous! I love the photos.
oh these are wonderful! you have a budding artist on hand. thanks for linking up to kids in the kitchen! 🙂
ADORABLE! Featuring this at Family Fun Friday!
Monica
Love these cute cookies~ I featured you today on my Spooktacular Linky Party Roundup! Thank you so much for sharing on Made in a Day!
Kim
What an EASY and adorable idea!
Thanks for sharing this on Artsy Play Wednesday. We hope you come back to list another new activiy this week!
We have pinned this selection 🙂
Your little one looks so into it! Cute! And your cookies look really scary 🙂
Thank you for linking up with the #FridayFoodie
They are incredibly cute and your son looks like he’s having a great time and really concentrating hard. I love baking that the children can properly join in with 🙂
Beautiful and a great way to introduce the little ones to baking and decorating!
I love, love, love ever so much that he decorated these himself. Adorable! Thanks so much for linking to me! 🙂