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Halloween Monster Cookies

Make Halloween extra sweet this year with these Halloween Monster Cookies. Homemade chocolate chip cookies, homemade frosting and lots of fun decorating make these cookies extra special.
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Course: Dessert, Dessert/Snack, Snack
Keyword: baking, cookies, frosting, halloween
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 12 minutes
Decorating Time: 30 minutes
Servings: 15
Calories: 234kcal
Author: Tracy

Equipment

  • Mixer
  • Oven

Ingredients

Homemade Chocolate Chip Cookies Ingredients

  • 2 ¼ cups Flour
  • 1 tsp Baking Soda
  • 2 Sticks Softened Butter
  • ¾ cup Sugar
  • ¾ cup Brown Sugar
  • 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
  • 2 Eggs
  • 2 cups Chocolate Chips

Vanilla Frosting Ingredients

  • 1 stick butter - softened/room temperature
  • 2 cups powdered sugar
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 2 tbsp milk
  • Purple Food Coloring Gel
  • Orange Food Coloring Gel
  • Green Food Coloring Gel

Spooky Decorations

  • Mini Marshmallows for teeth and/or eyes
  • Candy Eyes
  • Chocolate Chips and White Chocolate Chips for teeth or eyes

Chocolate Milkshake Ingredients

  • 2 scoops chocolate ice cream
  • 3/4 cup chocolate milk

Instructions

Chocolate Chip Cookie Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.
  • In a large mixing bowl, combine butter, sugar, brown sugar, baking soda and vanilla extract using mixer.
  • Beat in the eggs one at a time.
  • Slowly add the flour 1/4 a cup at time.
  • Mix in the chocolate chips.
  • Prepare baking sheets with cooking spray or parchment paper.
  • Make small cookie dough balls, approximately 1 inch.
  • Place the cookie dough balls onto the baking sheet and bake for 10-12 minutes or until golden brown. Allow the cookies to cool.
  • While the cookies are cooling, make the frosting.
  • Once the cookies are completely cooled, place a spoonful of frosting between two cookies.
  • Add a little frosting on the top cookie to hold the eyes and other fun decorations in place.

Frosting Instructions

  • In a medium sized bowl (or in the bowl of a stand mixer), mix the butter until it is smooth.
  • Mix in the powdered sugar, a 1/4 cup at a time.
  • Add in the vanilla extract.
  • Add in 2 tablespoons of milk.
  • Blend until smooth.
  • Divide the frosting into four small bowls. Add green, purple and orange gel food coloring and mix well. Leave one white if desired, I did.

Chocolate Milkshake Instructions

  • Blend until smooth
  • Enjoy with Halloween Cookies!

Notes

My chocolate chip cookie recipe yield about 30 cookies for me, so depending how big you make your cookies you will be able to make approximately 15 monster cookies.  Each monster cookie requires 2 cookies.

Nutrition

Calories: 234kcal | Carbohydrates: 53g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 1g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 24mg | Sodium: 106mg | Potassium: 66mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 38g | Vitamin A: 44IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 31mg | Iron: 1mg
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