Gothic Halloween Cookies

These gothic Halloween cookies start with simple, no spread vanilla cutout cookies, decorated with black cocoa buttercream in flowers, leaves, and pumpkins, for a dark and moody Halloween treat.

You might also love these recipes for Halloween cupcakes, black velvet cake, and jack o’ lantern cookies.

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Why You’ll Love This Recipe

Video Tutorial. I’ve included a simple decorating tutorial in the recipe card, showing you how I piped easy rosettes, pumpkins, drop flowers and leaves, using just a few piping tips.

No Spread Recipe. You’ll love the cutout cookie recipe, which will perfectly hold any shape of cookie cutter that you use.

Dark and Elegant. Although I made these for Halloween, they’re elegant enough for any dark and moody event, even a gothic wedding.

High Altitude Tested. I develop all the recipes on my site for Denver’s altitude of 5,280 feet. If you’re at a lower or higher elevation, please see my FAQs for guidance on adjusting recipes for your altitude.

See the recipe card at the end of the post for the full ingredients list and instructions.

Ingredients and Tools

• 12-Inch Disposable Piping Bags + Couplers.
• Piping Tips. 1M, 18, 352
• Vanilla Cutout Cookies. You can use a simple round, scalloped cookie cutter for the vanilla cutout cookies, or any shape you choose.
• Black Cocoa Buttercream. Black cocoa powder makes an intense, dark chocolate, black buttercream. This is the recipe I use for all of my black velvet cake and cupcake recipes.

Instructions

• Make the vanilla cutout cookies as instructed, and cool completely before decorating.
• Make the black cocoa buttercream as instructed. The color will deepen and darken as the buttercream sits, so you may want to make it a few hours in advance.
• See the video in the recipe card for a simple demonstration on piping rosettes, drop flowers, pumpkins, and leaves, using tips 1M, 18, and 352. Before the buttercream crusts over, decorate the cookies with black sugar pearls and sanding sugar.

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