Who doesn’t love Nightmare Before Christmas? I know my family is a huge fan of it! That’s why we love these Sally Sugar Cookies. They are so fun to make and even more fun to eat! Enjoy!
Nightmare Before Christmas Sally Cookies
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup unsalted butter softened
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 large egg yolk
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup cornstarch
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- Food Coloring teal purple, pink
- Ghirardelli Chocolate Melts
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F and line baking sheets with parchment paper.
- In a large bowl add the butter and sugar.
- beat with an electric mixer on medium-high speed.
- Beat until very pale and fluffy (about 3 to 5 minutes).
- Add the egg, and beat until well combined.
- Add in the egg yolk and vanilla extract beat until combined. Add the flour, cornstarch, baking soda, and salt.
- Beat on low until well combined.
- Divide dough into 4 bowls and add food coloring, mixing well with a fork
- Chill dough for 30 minutes or more
- Make golf ball sized dough balls using 2-3 colors of dough for each cookie
- Bake the cookies 8-12 minutes.
- Remove from the oven and allow to cool on the cookie sheet for 2 minutes
- Cool cookies on a baking rack
- Melt a small handful of chocolate melts in a piping bag according to instructions on the bag.
- Snip the tip off the piping bag and use it to add stitches to the cookies.
- Follow the lines of different colors on the cookies.
- Allow to dry for 30 minutes.
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Who is your favorite Nightmare Before Christmas character?
Oh my gosh–I love the colors! These cookies look SO pretty! (And soooo yummy!)
Can someone tell me how many cookies this can make
Jack is my favorite. Sally second. Nightmare Before Christmas is one of our favorite movies and these cookies are so adorable.
My girls love this movie. These are such a cute idea. Can you say Family Movie Night?
What a fun cookie to make and eat. The grandkids would get a kick out of these cookies and I love all the different colors.
These Sally cookies are awesome. The Nightmare Before Christmas is one of my favorite movies!!
I love how they turned out! What pretty colors too. This is such a great movie! I need to make these with my kids.
Oh my, I love these cookies! We are planning a Halloween party and this would be perfect for the occasion. My boys would enjoy helping with these cookies especially because of the fun colors.
These cookies look like so much fun to make. I can’t wait to make this recipe with the family.
This is by far one of my kids favorite movies. They watch it year round! We are definitely making these cookies!!
What fun cookies! I don’t know that movie well, so the reference is lost on me. I just love the bright colors and the black stitches.
Just by seeing these colors, I knew it was Nightmare Before Christmas. These are so cute and I imagine tasty too.
These Sally Cookies are a perfect color representation of Sally’s dress! Great job on these. They look like a must try.
These turned out great! The colors and everything is spot on. She’s one of my favorite characters as well.
These are adorable and so colorful! My kids would wolf these down in minutes!
This halloween recipe looks amazing! Love the colors, my kids would love to try these cookies!
What a great idea for Halloween. We love baking during the cooler months.
Oh my goodness, these are SO cute. My family adores Nightmare Before Christmas, so we’ll have to try making these this year.
I really love that movie and I think these cookies are so adorable! It’s nice to make these for the kids, I’m pretty sure they’re going to love it!
Theser cookies are so colorful and so Halloween. This could be a fun activity to do with kids. They love to color food and decorate it!
That sugar cookies are so pretty and love their colors. It looks delicious and looks so easy to prepare, I will try to make this for my kids.