Halloween monster biscuits
Why not do some fun halloween baking with your kids this year, by turning some halloween sugar cookies into fun, spooky monster biscuits.
Monster biscuits are the perfect, easy way of getting kids busy in the kitchen this Halloween.
Halloween is a great excuse to get kids baking in the kitchen. We love turning our everyday baking recipes into something a bit spooky and fun, like these monster biscuits. We’ve just used our favourite sugar cookie recipe as its easy, bakes well, and is quite plain so is the perfect base for lots of coloured icing and sprinkles! With the addition of some googly eyes, they make perfect little monsters, but best of all are really simple to make.
How can kids help make monster biscuits?
You can do these biscuits in a few stages which means kids can dip in and out of the kitchen and just help with various steps that capture their interest. We made the biscuits in the morning and decorated them after lunch on a day we didn’t have much on. Or if you want to spare your kitchen from too much mess, you could make the biscuits in advance and just get your kids to help decorate them.
As usual with easy bakes kids will be able to help measure and mix all the ingredients together. To make the biscuit they’ll also get to roll out the biscuit dough before cutting out the biscuit shapes. This is a fun job for children, especially those who have had a bit of practice when playing with playdough!
You can get the edible googly eyes in the baking sections of most supermarkets these days. We love using them for turning baking into fun monsters or animals like our recent teddy bear biscuits. Simple things like that turn regular baking into something quite fun for kids (or at least it does in our kitchen!)
This recipe would also be great for any Halloween sugar cookies. If you have Halloween themed cutters you can follow the recipe below and make whatever spooky characters you have.
How long to monster biscuits keep?
These iced biscuits will last for a few days in an air tight container. If you leave them much longer than that they’ll start to go a bit soft.
If you want to keep them for longer you can freeze the un-iced biscuits for a few months. Simply wrap them well in cling film or glad wrap and pop them in a freezer bag. Make sure you defrost them well before you ice them.
Other Halloween bakes
If you liked these simple Halloween biscuits find out what other fun Halloween treats we have for you to bake with your kids.
Monster cookies
Halloween brownies
Halloween spider cookies
Halloween monster cupcakes
Spider web biscuits
Halloween skeleton biscuits
Halloween cake pops
Useful equipment
You might need the following baking tools/gadgets to make these monster biscuits
Digital scales
Freestanding mixer
Mixing bowl
Hand held mixer
Wooden spoons
Spatula
Measuring cups
Measuring spoons
Cutters
Rolling pin
Wire rack
Food colour
Difficulty: Easy
Time: 45 minutes plus 10 minutes baking plus decorating
Serves: 2 dozen + biscuits
Ingredients
For the biscuits
250g (7/8 cup) unsalted butter, softened
250g (1 ¼ cups) caster sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 egg
400g (3 1/5 cups) plain/all-purpose flour
A pinch of salt
To decorate
400g icing / confectioners sugar
Food colouring
Spinkles
Googly eyes
how to make monster biscuits
Preheat the oven to 170C/160C Fan /325F and line several baking trays with baking paper.
Beat the butter and sugar together
Get your kids to help measure out the butter and sugar and add them to a large mixing bowl or freestanding mixer. Using the k-paddle of your mixer or a hand held mixer, cream them together until the mixture is light and fluffy.
The butter will need to be soft enough to mix in. If it’s not cut it into a few pieces and then pop it in the microwave for a few seconds to soften it, but not long enough for it to melt.
Add the dry ingredients
Measure the flour, salt, and baking powder and add to the butter/sugar mixture. When your kids measure the baking powder make sure they use their finger to level the teaspoon so that you add just the right amount.
Mix it all together. The mixture will be quite dry at this point.
Add the egg and vanilla
Crack the egg in a small bowl and add to your mixture. We never add it straight into our mixing bowl in case the shell goes in. If/when it does simply fish it out with a larger piece of shell or a teaspoon. It will stick to either of those better than it will your finger (and be less messy).
Mix everything together. If you need to, use a spatula to scrape unmixed ingredients from the side of the bowl.
Mix everything together so it comes together into a ball of soft dough.
Make the monster biscuits
Dust your work surface with a little flour and roll out your dough until it is about 5mm thick (just under 1/4 inch). Unless you have a larger work surface, you might find it easier to split the dough into two before rolling it out. Keep the second half wrapped in clingfilm until later.
Use a round shaped cutter to cut shapes out and place them on your baking trays.
Put your baking trays in the fridge for 10-15 minutes to chill.
Bake the Halloween monster biscuits
Pop the biscuits in the oven for around 10 minutes. They’re ready when the edges are starting to turn a little golden but the inside should still be pale.
Leave them to cool on the baking trays for a minute or two before removing them and placing them on a wire rack to cool completely.
Decorate the monster biscuits
Mix some icing sugar with a few teaspoons of water until its a nice consistency – runny enough to spoon onto some biscuits but not so runny that it will run off them. Split the icing into a few separate bowls and add a few drops of colour into each. You could use spooky Halloween colours (we went with purple, orange, green and red as we thought they were the most ‘Halloweeny’) or you could just use any colours you choose to.
Put some spinkles, small sweets and eyes in separate bowls . We found some fun Halloween themed ones but you could use anything you have to hand or even some mini M&Ms. Get your kids to spoon the icing on to each biscuit and decorate with the sprinkles/sweets and eyes.
Enjoy!
Halloween monster biscuits
Ingredients
Method
- Measure out the butter and sugar and pop them in a large mixing bowl or freestanding mixer. Beat them together until the mixture is light and fluffy.
- Measure the flour, salt, baking powder and add to the butter/sugar mixture. Mix everything together.
- Crack the egg in a small bowl and add to your mixture along with the vanilla extract. Mix everything together. If you need to, use a spatula to scrape unmixed ingredients from the side of the bowl.
- Dust your work surface with a little flour, divide your biscuit mixture into two and roll out one half of your dough until it is about 5mm thick.
- Use a round cutter to cut shapes out and place them on your baking trays.Chill your baking trays in the fridge for 10-15 minutes.
- Pop the biscuits in the oven for around 10 minutes. They’re ready when the edges are starting to turn a little golden but the inside should still be pale.
- Leave them to cool on the baking trays for a minute or two before removing them and placing them on a wire rack to cool completely.
- Mix the icing sugar with a few teaspoons of water until it's spreadable but not too runny. Divide the icing sugar into a few bowls and add the colour. Put some sprinkles, sweets and googly eyes into small bowls.
- Get your kids to spread some icing on with the back of a spoon then add some eyes and sprinkles/sweets. Leave to set before serving.
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This recipe was first published in October 2018 and republished with a slightly amended recipe and new images in October 2026.
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