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Halloween Ghost Cookies

Once upon a time, a mining town stood strong on the eastern slope of the sierra nevada mountains.

Recipe Summary Halloween Ghost Cookies

All you need for these ghost cookies is a cookie cutter in the shape of a tulip and then turn it upside-down - if you don't have that one, you can easily freehand the ghost shapes. These are great giveaways for trick-or-treaters and a nice alternative to all the candy.

Ingredients | Bodie Ghost Town Old Photos

1 cup butter

1 ½ cups confectioners' sugar

1 egg

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

2 ½ cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon cream of tartar

¼ teaspoon salt

1 cup confectioners' sugar

2 teaspoons milk, plus more if needed

2 teaspoons light corn syrup, or more as needed

¼ teaspoon vanilla extract

1 (12 ounce) package miniature semisweet chocolate chips

Directions

Beat butter in a bowl with an electric mixer until creamy. Add 1 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar gradually, beating until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and 1 teaspoon vanilla extract.

Combine flour, baking soda, cream of tartar, and salt in a second bowl. Add flour mixture to the creamed butter mixture and mix to combine. Wrap in plastic wrap and chill in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour.

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).

Dust a work surface with flour and roll out dough into a thin circle. Cut out tulip shapes; if your tulip cookie cutter has a stem, cut the stem off with a knife, so you have a stemless tulip shape. Arrange cut-out cookies on ungreased baking sheets.

Bake in the preheated oven until lightly browned, 6 to 8 minutes. Remove from baking sheets carefully and transfer to wire racks. Cool completely, about 15 minutes.

Stir 1 cup confectioners' sugar and milk together in a small bowl until smooth. Beat in corn syrup and 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract until icing is smooth and glossy. Add more corn syrup if icing is too thick.

Spoon icing into a piping bag with a small plain tip. Pipe icing around the edge of each cookie to create a border. Fill in the middle completely with icing. Stick 2 chocolate chip cookies into the wet icing for the eyes. Let cookies stand until icing dries, about 1 hour.

Info | Bodie Ghost Town Old Photos

prep: 45 mins cook: 6 mins additional: 2 hrs 15 mins total: 3 hrs 6 mins Servings: 90 Yield: 90 cookies

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Images of Bodie Ghost Town Old Photos

Bodie Ghost Town Old Photos : Founded in the late 1800s during the gold rush boomtown era, the rugged and inaccessible town, situated at 8375 feet above sea level, grew to over 10,000 people before the mines went dry.