The circus is coming to town! Lions, elephants, giraffes and more! Make these adorable, nostalgic and delicious circus animal cookies for your Halloween carnival party, classroom party, neighbors, and more! Be sure and check out the entire Halloween Carnival Party along with the DIY Pumpkin Toss Game and DIY Donut Bar!
- Sugar Cookie Dough
- Orange & Black Candy Sprinkles
- Orange Candy Melt
- White Candy Melt
Make your favorite cookie dough or go the easy route and purchase pre-made cookie dough at the grocery store. Roll out your dough until it's 1/4" thick. Using circus animal cookie cutters, cut your animal shapes out of the dough and place on a cookie sheet.
Bake cookies according to sugar cookie dough recipe and cool.
Melt orange candy melts in a microwave-safe bowl in 30-second increments, stirring each 30 seconds, until smooth.
Dip the front sides of your cooled sugar cookies in candy melt and then place them back on the cooling rack.
Immediately sprinkle cookies with black and orange candy sprinkles and allow candy melts to harden.
Repeat steps 1-5 using white or black candy melts so you have an assortment of circus cookie colors.
Serve Halloween circus cookies in Halloween Shaped Serving Trays with Black & White Striped Napkins and enjoy!
Be sure to see how we served these cookies at our Halloween Carnival Party! You won't want to miss out how to make your own DIY Donut Bar or Carnival Pumpkin Toss Game either.