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