These Hocus Pocus Cookies are a simple sugar cookie recipe that color with food colors. Roll the cookies in sprinkles and add candy eyes for extra spooky, Hocus Pocus themed fun.
Your kids will love showing these colorful sugar cookies off in their school lunches!
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Why You'll Love This Hocus Pocus Halloween Cookie Recipe
These simple Hocus Pocus sugar cookies look awesome and have great party appeal. You can make the cookie dough up ahead of time and even double or triple the recipe easily! There is no chilling required when making these cookies, just mix, shape, decorate, and bake!
Ingredients You'll Need
You can find the neon gel colorants at Walmart and Kroger in the cake and cookies mix ingredients aisle. The neon colorants are more vibrant that regular green, orange, and purple.
The three cookie colors in these Hocus Pocus cookies represent the three hair colors of the Hocus Pocus witches.
- Flour - All purpose.
- Sugar - White granulated.
- Baking powder
- Salt
- Butter - Softened to room temperature.
- Vanilla extract, or Almond extract
- Egg
- Candy sprinkles - Halloween or any holiday theme.
- Candy eyes - (or other shapes for various Holidays!).
- Neon Gel Food Colors - (purple, lime green, and orange).
Full ingredient amounts and preparation instructions for these hocus pocus cookies are in the printable recipe card at the bottom of this post.
How To Make This Hocus Pocus Cookie Recipe
Mix up the sugar cookie dough following the ingredients and instructions in our recipe card below.
After the main batch of dough is made, divide it into three portions so you can make three colors of dough for the sugar cookies.
Make And Color The Sugar Cookie Dough
- Take each portion of the freshly made cookie dough and place it in a separate small bowl.
- Add one of the gel food colors to each small bowl of cookie dough. Mix colorant in each bowl using a spoon.
Divide The Hocus Pocus Dough
Once you have three balls of cookie dough, each colored a different color, you will be dividing them into twelve pieces.
Gently roll each three color pile into one combined Hocus Pocus cookie ball.
- Pinch off twelve equal size portions from each colored ball of dough.
- Lay the cookie dough in small piles, one of each color, on the baking sheet.
Decorate And Bake
- Take each three color cookie ball and roll it in the dish of sprinkles. Lay the cookies on the cookie sheet and press down to a disc shape.
- Make sure the cookie are at least 2" apart on the parchment covered baking sheet. Press in the candy eyes and bake for 12 to 13 minutes.
Serving Suggestions
Make these frosted Hocus Pocus themed cookies for your children, or take them to your next Halloween Hocus Pocus party.
For more sweet Trick or Treats we have Mummy Brownies, Mummy Pigs in a Blanket, Halloween Snack Mix, Monster Cookie Truffles, and Reeses Peanut Butter Cookies.
Your party guests will have a spooky time at your Halloween buffet table with some savory party recipes along with these cookies:
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Substitutions and Variations
- You can use this idea for three color cookies for many different Holidays. Use pastels colorants for Easter. Red, Christmas Tree Green, and Grinch (neon) Green for Christmas.
- Use Red, Pink, and White for Valentines cookies, and Red, White, and Royal Blue for Fourth of July for patriotic cookies. Just change the sprinkle blend you roll the cookies in!
Equipment
Equipment can have a big impact on how a recipe turns out. Stone bakeware takes longer to heat up than metal pans, and also retain heat for longer, which could make the recipe more watery, or burnt on the outsides.
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Storage Options
- Store any leftover cookies in an ziplock bag. The can be frozen, but the black candy eye centers may bleed or weep a little when coming back to room temperature, due to condensation.
- You can make the cookie dough up ahead of time and freeze it as ready to bake cookie balls until needed.
Tips for Success
- A great tip is to make the three colored cookie balls up ahead of time and freeze them on a cookie sheet.
- When frozen, place them in a freezer bag and store in the freezer.
- Take them out an hour before baking and roll them in the sprinkle.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes, you absolutely can. Liquid colors will not change the texture of the cookies.
More Delish Ideas
- Spooky Candy Apple Slices
- Halloween Orange Sherbet Punch
- Halloween Charcuterie Board
- Peanut 'Boo'-ter Cupcakes
Hocus Pocus Themed Cookies
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1½ cups flour
- 1½ teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup unsalted butter
- ¾ cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla or almond extract
- ½ cup Halloween sprinkles blend
- candy eyes
- orange gel colorant
- lime green gel colorant
- purple gel colorant
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350° F. Prepare a large cookie sheet with either non stick spray, a silpat mat, or parchment paper. Set aside.
- Blend the flour, baking powder, and salt in a bowl and then set aside.1½ cups flour, 1½ teaspoon baking powder, ¼ teaspoon salt
- In a large mixing bowl, cream the sugar and butter. Add the egg and vanilla mixing well.½ cup unsalted butter, ¾ cup sugar, 1 egg, 1 teaspoon vanilla or almond extract
- Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients, mixing well until combined. Scrape sides and pull together into a ball. Divide the ball of cookie dough into three equal amounts.
- Place each ball of dough into separate bowls. Add purple gel colorant to one, lime green to another, and orange gel colorant to the third. Mix each bowl well until the colorant is combined well with the cookie dough.orange gel colorant, lime green gel colorant, purple gel colorant
- Take each ball of cookie dough and divide it into 12 smaller balls, all about equal size. Place balls on the cookie sheet in piles of three, one of each color.
- After diving all the dough colors, take each pile of three small colored balls and gently roll it to press the three small balls together. Roll in a bowl of Halloween sprinkles. Lay on the cookie sheet about 2" apart.ยฝ cup Halloween sprinkles blend, candy eyes
- Press candy eyes on each cookie. Place in the preheated oven and bake for 12 to 13 minutes.
- After baking remove from oven. Let sit 5 minutes, then transfer to a cooling rack.
Notes
- If you are worried about getting gel color stained hands, wear a pair or disposable nitrile gloves while working with the colored cookie dough.
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