Easy Halloween Cookies
These Halloween cookies are the best sweet treat to enjoy this spooky season.
Perfect for your Halloween parties or get-togethers, or just a quick little snack to serve when your kids out to trick or treat, these cookies are a great way to get in the spirit of Halloween.
With sugar cookies as the base and some add-ons and creative techniques, you can actually put together a fun Halloween treat.
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What I Love About this Recipe
The best part about this spooky treat is the fact that you can also get the kids involved when putting it together.
Of all the Halloween cookie recipes out there, this one’s my favorite, simply because of how easy it is to put together.
You actually don’t need any fancy cookie cutters or decorating tools to make these, and yet, with some simple ingredients, you can give a simple cookie a nice Halloween twist.
Ingredients For the Halloween Cookies
Here’s all you’ll need to make these easy Halloween cookies.
- Unsalted butter 200 g
- Egg 1
- Sugar ½ cup
- Almonds ½ cup
- All purpose flour 1.5 cup
Filling:
- Butter 100 g
- Cocoa powder 2 tbsp
- Powdered sugar 2 tbsp
Decoration:
- Marshmallow
How to Make the Halloween Cookies
Once you have your ingredients ready, here’s what you’ll need to do to make these Halloween sugar cookies.
Step 1: Prepare the Ingredients
Prepare all ingredients. Combine the dry ingredients for the dough. Rub the oil with the egg, combine both masses with a stand mixer. Preheat oven.
Step 2: Shape and Bake Cookies
Add chopped almonds. Form cookies and arrange on a baking tray lined with parchment paper. Bake in the oven at 180 degrees for about 20 minutes. Cool completely.
Step 3: Prepare the Filling
Mix everything for the filling. Cool down.
Step 4: Make the Halloween Treats
Put a little stuffing on one cookie, cover with the second one slightly at an angle. Make teeth and eyes from marshmallows.
Tips to Make the Halloween Cookies
Ready to make these Halloween cookies? Here are some tips and tricks you might want to keep in mind.
- If you don’t want to scratch make the filling for these sugar cookies, you can simply use some royal icing.
- If your cookies seem too flat, you can add a pinch of baking powder or baking soda to help the cookies rise.
- I’ve used marshmallows to make the teeth and eyes for the monster cookies, but you can use candy eyeballs and candy corn too, if you have those at hand. You’ll find candy eyes and candy corn at most food specialty stores or supermarkets close to Halloween season.
- To lend some extra flavor to this chocolate cookie, you can use brown sugar instead of regular sugar.
- You can also add some pumpkin puree to the dough for the Halloween cookies, throw in some Halloween sprinkles and transform these simple chocolate cookies to something a bit more festive.
What Other Flavor Variations Can I Try?
You can also try some other flavor variations to these classic sugar cookies if you want to.
Peanut Butter Cookies
You just can’t go wrong with peanut butter cookies.
To make these, you can use some peanut butter as the filling in between two cookies, and also throw in some peanut butter chips for some extra deliciousness and texture.
Chocolate Chip Cookies
If you’re a chocolate lover, you can actually transform these Halloween cookies into something more flavorful.
Start off with the chocolate cookies and add in some extra chocolate chips for a little more texture. You can also use white chocolate chips if you want some extra color and a bit of variation to the cookies.
How Do I Store the Cookies?
The easiest way to store these sandwich cookies is to store the cookies separately in an airtight container on the countertop, and then fill them with the filling and put them together when you want to serve them.
You can also choose to prep the cookie dough in advance and freeze it until you’re ready to put the monster cookies together.
Easy Halloween Cookies
Delicious Halloween Cookies
Ingredients
- Unsalted butter 200 g
- Egg 1
- Sugar ½ cup
- Almonds ½ cup
- All purpose flour 1.5 cup
- Filling:
- Butter 100 g
- Cocoa powder 2 tbsp
- Powdered sugar 2 tbsp
- Decoration:
- Marshmallow
Instructions
Prepare all ingredients. Combine the dry ingredients for the dough. Rub the oil with the egg, and combine both masses with a stand mixer. Preheat oven.
Add chopped almonds. Form cookies and arrange them on a baking tray lined with parchment paper. Bake in the oven at 180 degrees for about 20 minutes. Cool completely.
Mix everything for the filling. Cool down.
Put a little stuffing on one cookie, and cover with the second one slightly at an angle. Make teeth and eyes from marshmallows.
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
8Serving Size:
1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 479Total Fat: 36gSaturated Fat: 20gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 14gCholesterol: 104mgSodium: 136mgCarbohydrates: 36gFiber: 2gSugar: 15gProtein: 6g
How Do I Serve These Halloween Sugar Cookies?
The easiest way to serve any good Halloween cookie is to arrange it out on a tray, preferably along with other unique cookies, and serve them for a Halloween party.
I love making these Halloween sugar cookies and serving them with some mummy cookies, spider cookies and witch hat cookies to make it a whole party platter thing.
More Cookie Recipes to Try
Loved this idea and inspired to try some more Halloween cookie recipes? Here are a few good ones you might want to check out.
