Royal Icing Googly Eyes

1. Prepare Royal Icing Googly Eyes first (recipe here), as they will need time to dry before placing on the cookies (unless using store bought).

2. Consistency of icing should be stiff. Pipe royal icing dots onto parchment paper (about ¼" in diameter) and place a dark chocolate Crispearl or chocolate chip in the center while icing is still wet. Allow to dry out completely.

Vanilla Sugar Cookies

1. Preheat oven to 350˚F.

2. In the bowl of your mixer, cream butter and sugar until smooth, at least 3 minutes.

3. Beat in vanilla and egg.

4. In a separate bowl, combine baking powder and salt with flour and add a little at a time to the wet ingredients.The dough will be very stiff. If it becomes too stiff for your mixer, turn out the dough onto a countertop surface. Wet your hands and finish off kneading the dough by hand.

5. Do not chill the dough. Divide into workable batches, roll out onto a lightly floured surface or roll out in between two sheets of parchment paper to avoid adding flour and cut with desired cookie cutter. You will want these cookies to be on the thicker side (closer to ¼ inch rather than ⅛. 

6. Bake at 350˚F for 6-8 minutes. Let cool on the cookie sheet until firm enough to transfer to a cooling rack.

7. Once cooled, dip the sugar cookies in melted White Confectionery Coating. Place the googly eyes made with the Royal Icing before the coating is set and hardened. 

8. Put more of the melted confectionery coating in a piping bag. Cut a small hole and pipe the cookies back and forth to create the mummy bandages. Once bandages have set, lift the cookie to remove excess coating.