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Cookies & BarsNo. 2354 · The 2026 edition

How to Make Haunted House Cookies

Transform your kitchen into a spooky bakery with these easy-to-make haunted house cookies that look like they stepped right out of a nightmare!

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How to Make Haunted House Cookies
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Create festive Halloween treats by baking sugar cookies in a mansion shape, applying a detailed design with royal icing and a stencil, adding colorful accents and edible pearls, and letting them set before sharing.

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Shape and bake your dough using a spooky mansion cookie cutter.
  2. Mix the royal icing until it reaches the proper consistency for decorating.
  3. Place your stencil over the cooled cookies and spread the icing through the openings to transfer the pattern.
  4. Add details using colored icing and sprinkle sugar pearls for extra texture.
  5. Let the finished treats sit undisturbed until the icing is fully hardened.

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