Sugar cookies seem to be one of those sweet treats that can go well with any occasion - all you need is a good variety of different shaped cookie cutters. These are some sugar cookies I made for Halloween. Any sugar cookie or shortbread cookie or any other type of cut-out cookie recipe will work, so make as many as you like! I prefer sugar cookie recipes that do not require chilling the dough before rolling, cutting, and baking. Sometimes I just want to make a batch of cookies from start to finish and enjoy them hot within an hour. Not that I don't try to plan ahead, but even then I find it difficult to know how thick to flatten the dough before chilling it, then how long to take it out of the fridge prior to rolling it so that it is warm enough to roll but not too warm so that the dough sticks.
Here I have used a ghost cookie cutter and a bat cookie cutter. The ghost cutter was quite flimsy around the edges and as you can see, some of the ghosts ended up armless, though some ghosts don't have arms anyway. The bat cutter was much easier to work with. I find the best tricks are to flour the cookie cutter in between cuts and to use a small metal spatula to lift the cookies from the surface to the baking sheet. Alternately, just roll the dough out on a sheet of parchment paper, pop it on a cookie sheet, make the cuts, then gently pull away the excess dough.
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