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Sally’s Stitched Sugar Cookies

You’ll certainly be the talk of the school Halloween party when you show up with a tray of these Sally Stitched Sugar Cookies! You can make them as simple or complicated as you like and decorating the whole batch will only take minutes.

multi colored Halloween sugar cookies 'stitched' together with fake chocolate stitched to look like Sally's dress from The Nightmare Before Christmas on a whitish blue wooden background

The inspiration for these Halloween sugar cookies came straight from The Nightmare Before Christmas. I love the creepy, sweet, and magical world Tim Burton created in the movie.

I thought there was no better way to honor it than to create my own creepy and sweet treat. You can’t get any easier than starting with a pouch of cookie mix either so this is something anyone can pull off.

multi colored sugar cookies 'stitched' together with fake chocolate stitched to look like Sally's dress from The Nightmare Before Christmas on a whitish blue wooden background

After you get your dough mixed up according to the package instructions divide it into several bowls. I let my kids pick out the colors so we ended up with pink, purple and green plus the plain colored dough.

My plain dough is yellow because my chickens lay eggs with almost orange yolks. The purple and pink are from the McCormick neon food coloring set and the green is from the regular food coloring set.

I found the best way to get the coloring mixed in was with a fork, the tines really help get the color mixed into the the thick dough. My 4 and 2-year-old added the drops so I can’t even guess how many were used but it was probably a lot.

Do whatever makes you happy.

The next step is to pop the cookie dough into the fridge to stiffen up. It’ll be too messy to roll right away, give it at least an hour but overnight (or nights…) is fine.

multi colored sugar cookies 'stitched' together with fake chocolate stitched to look like Sally's dress from The Nightmare Before Christmas on a whitish blue wooden background

The dough will start to loosen up when you handle it as the butter melts so even if it’s completely solid from the fridge you can get workable cookies. Preheat the oven and grab a spoon.

Scoop out a small ball of two or three colors and roll them together. Place the balls on the cookie sheet with your favorite part of the pattern facing up.

Bake for 8-10 minutes until the edges start to look ever so golden. It’s hard to see on the colored dough but you’ll notice it if you leave one section uncolored.

The cookies will still be very soft so let them sit on the cookie sheet for a minute or two before you transfer them to a cooling rack. Make sure you let the cookie sheet cool down between batches.

multi colored sugar cookies 'stitched' together with fake chocolate stitched to look like Sally's dress from The Nightmare Before Christmas on a whitish blue wooden background

When all the cookies are baked and cool it’s time to decorate!

All you need is a piping bag (a ziplock will work in a pinch) and candy melts. If you’re new to the world of candy melts you can find them at Michael’s in the cake decorating section and they’re almost always on sale.

Melt a small handful of chocolate melts in the piping bag following the instructions on the package. Snip off a tiny tip and pipe lines and X’s connecting the different colored sections of cookies, just like on Sally’s dress.

Yield: 24 cookies

Sally's Stitched Up Sugar Cookies

multi colored Halloween sugar cookies 'stitched' together with fake chocolate stitched to look like Sally's dress from The Nightmare Before Christmas on a whitish blue wooden background

Whip up a batch of easy Halloween sugar cookies with a Tim Burton twist thanks to food coloring and chocolate stitches inspired by Sally's dress from The Nightmare Before Christmas

Prep Time 15 minutes
Chill 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour 15 minutes

Ingredients

  • 1 pkg Sugar Cookie Mix + Ingredients to Prepare
  • Food Coloring (2-4 different colors)
  • Chocolate Candy Melts

Instructions

  1. Prepare cookie dough as instructed for drop cookies
  2. Divide dough into 4 bowls and add food coloring, mixing well with a fork
  3. Chill dough for 30 minutes or more
  4. Preheat oven to 375 degrees (or whatever your cookie mix recommends)
  5. Make golf ball sized dough balls using 2-3 colors of dough for each cookie
  6. Bake 8-10 minutes or until slightly golden around the edges
  7. Remove from the oven and allow to cool on the cookie sheet for 2 minutes
  8. Cool cookies on a baking rack
  9. Melt a small handful of candy melts in a piping bag according to instructions
  10. Snip the tip off the piping bag and use it to add stitches to the cookies, connecting the different dough colors

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