These easy Halloween cookies are irresistible, with brightly colored buttercream sandwiched between chunky chocolate cookies and eye candies.
These chocolate monster sandwich cookies are super cute, fun, and easy to prepare, making them a perfect spooky dessert for your Halloween party.
Plus, these cute cookies are tons of fun to make with your family; you can ask your children to help assemble them; it's a fun Halloween activity!
Halloween Cookies Ideas!
Not only are these Easy Halloween Cookies super cute to make but they make a wonderful addition as Halloween Sandwich Cookies at the dessert table.
The buttercream icing can be swapped out for other colors to fit your Halloween party theme or classroom party. These easy cookies also resemble the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles-perfect for a themed birthday or show marathon!
These Easy Halloween Cookies are easy enough to put together right before a party or to have them as an activity to put together themselves! Switch up the colors and have them ready to go in piping bags and let the kids have fun decorating with their favorite Halloween colors and eye candies.
Halloween Monster Cookies are another fun recipe. They're loaded with chunky peanut butter, oats, and chocolate candies!
Halloween Oreo Cookies are cookies with a delicious chocolate chip cookie base, crumble Oreo cookies and Halloween-themed candies. They make a great addition to Halloween festivities.
Chewy Matcha Cookies are a great choice for Halloween parties due to their green and black color, adding a fun twist to the celebration.
Ingredients in These Easy Halloween Cookies
- Unsalted Butter
- Granulated sugar
- Brown sugar
- Egg
- Vanilla extract
- Milk
- All-purpose flour
- Baking soda
- Baking powder
- Cocoa Powder
- Salt
Ingredients in Chocolate Sandwich Cookie Filling
- Unsalted Butter
- Powdered Sugar
- Vanilla Extract
- Orange and green gel food colors (or any other colors of your choice)
- Candy Eyeballs
How to Make Easy Halloween Cookies
This easy Halloween cookie recipe is easy to make. The steps are simple, and these spooky cookies are easy to assemble.
- Preheat the oven and prepare the cookie sheets: Preheat your oven to 350º F, line your cookie sheet with parchment paper, and set it aside.
- Mix the dry ingredients - Combine the all-purpose flour, baking soda, baking powder, cocoa powder, and salt in a large bowl and set it aside until ready to use.
- Combine the wet ingredients: In a stand mixer (you can also use a hand mixer for this), add the softened butter, granulated and brown sugars, egg, vanilla extract, and milk.
- Beat the mixture at medium speed, scraping down the sides and beating for at least 2-3 min or until the mixture is creamy and everything is incorporated well.
- Mix in the dry ingredients. Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture in batches and mix until the dough is formed.
- Chill the dough - Cover the dough and refrigerate for at least an hour. This will create cute puffy tops for these cookies. Skipping this step will create flat cookies that will spread.
- Once chilled, scoop out about 1 ½ to 2 tablespoons of dough (or use a #40 cookie scoop) and roll it in between your palms, giving it a round shape. Place the balls of cookie dough 2 inches apart on the prepared baking tray and bake for at least 14 - 15 minutes.
- Cool the chocolate sandwich cookies - Let the cookies cool for 5 minutes in the baking tray before transferring them to a wire rack to cool completely.
How to Make Buttercream Filling for Sandwich Cookies
- Cream the ingredients together - In a bowl of a stand mixer or using a hand mixer, cream the softened butter until it's light and creamy.
- Add vanilla extract and powdered sugar (in batches) and beat until smooth and fluffy (4-5 min).
- Divide and color the buttercream - Divide the buttercream into two equal parts and tint one with orange and the other with green gel food color. Or, choose any color you wish for your monster cookies filling.
Assemble the Halloween Monster Cookies
- Fill the piping bags-Fill both frostings in piping bags with the colored buttercream fitted with a large rounded tip, or just cut off the tip of the bag. Flip the sandwich cookie upside down and frost the base of the cookie.
- Assemble- Place the flat side of another cookie on top of the frosted cookie and press gently. Stick two eye candies in front for the spookiness!
- Store in an airtight container until ready to serve!
Tips for Making These Easy Halloween Cookies
- You can store these EASY HALLOWEEN COOKIES in an airtight container for 1-2 days at room temperature or 4-5 days in the refrigerator. You can also store the extra frosting in the fridge for 4-5 days; allow it to come to room temperature before using it again.
- Adjust the intensity of the colors until you get the desired bright shade in the frosting. I prefer using gel food color, as just a small quantity is enough to get a bright shade.
- If you feel the frosting is too thick, you can beat in 1-2 tablespoons of milk.
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Easy Halloween Cookies
Ingredients
Chocolate Sandwich Cookies
- ½ cup Unsalted Butter - softened
- ¾ cup Granulated sugar
- ¼ cup Brown sugar
- 1 ½ cups All-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon Baking soda
- ½ teaspoon Baking powder
- ½ cup Cocoa Powder
- ¼ teaspoon Salt
- 1 Egg
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
- 2 tablespoons Milk
Cookie Sandwich Filling
- 2 cups Unsalted Butter - softened
- 5 cups Powdered Sugar
- 1 tablespoon Vanilla Extract
- Orange and green gel food colors - or any other colors of your choice
- Eye candies
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350º F and line your cookie sheet with parchment paper and set it aside.
- Combine the all-purpose flour, baking soda, baking powder, cocoa powder, and salt in a large bowl and set it aside until ready to use.
- In a stand mixer (you can also use the hand mixer for this) add the softened butter, both the granulated and brown sugars, egg, vanilla extract, and the milk together.
- Beat the mixture at medium speed, scraping down the sides and beating for at least 2-3 min or until the mixture is creamy and everything is incorporated well.
- Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture in batches and mix till the dough is formed.
- Cover the dough and refrigerate for at least an hour. This will create cute puffy tops for these cookies. Skipping this step will create flat cookies that will spread.
- Once chilled, scoop out about 1 ½ to 2 tablespoons of dough (or use a #40 cookie scoop) and roll it in between your palms, giving it a round shape.
- Place the balls of cookie dough 2 inches apart on the prepared baking tray and bake for at least 14 - 15 minutes.
- Let the cookies cool for 5 minutes in the baking tray before transferring them to a wire rack to cool completely.
How to Make Buttercream Filling for Sandwich Cookies
- Cream the ingredients together - In a bowl of a stand mixer or using a hand mixer, cream the softened butter until it's light and creamy.
- Add vanilla extract and powdered sugar (in batches) and beat until you get a smooth and fluffy consistency (4-5 min).
- Divide the buttercream into two equal parts and tint one with orange and the other with green gel food color. Or, choose any color you wish for your monster cookies filling.
Assemble the Halloween Monster Cookies
- Fill the piping bags - Fill both the frostings in piping bags with the colored buttercream fitted with a large rounded tip or just cut off the tip of the bag. Flip the sandwich cookie upside down and frost the base of the cookie.
- Place the flat side of another cookie on top of the frosted cookie and press gently. Stick two eye candies in front for the spookiness!
- Store in an airtight container until ready to serve!
Notes
Nutrition
Nutritional information is an estimate based on third-party calculations. Actual values may vary due to ingredients, measurements, and serving sizes.
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