Halloween Treats
Halloween Treats
Get sweet and spooky in the kitchen for Halloween making tasty Halloween Treats like Witch Hat Surprise Cookies, Candy Corn Milkshakes, and Pumpkin Patch Cupcakes with your family!
Witch Hat Surprise Cookies
By Chef Mary Matthews
22 min | 10 min prep | Makes approximately 18 cookies
Ingredients for Cookie Dough
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons half-and-half (or light cream)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 egg
- 1/3 cup black cocoa powder
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/3 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips or white chocolate chips or milk chocolate chips
- 1/2 cup chocolate chunk chips
Ingredients for Decorating Cookies
- Chocolate Sugar Ice Cream Cones (or regular sugar ice cream cones dipped in chocolate or black candy melts)
- Melted Chocolate (for dipping bottom of cone)
- Halloween Sprinkles/Candy Eye Balls
- Approximately 4.5 Cups of M&M’s or Halloween Candies of Choice (2 Tablespoons per cookie)
Directions
- Cream butter; gradually add sugar, beating until light and fluffy.
- Add half-and-half and vanilla.
- Combine flour, cocoa, and soda; add to creamed mixture, beating just until blended.
- Stir in chocolate chips.
- Scoop cookie dough into 2 oz. (1/4 cup) cookies and place 1 and 1/2 inches apart on parchment paper lined cookie sheets.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 10 to 12 minutes (do not overbake).
- Cool slightly on cookie sheet before moving to a rack.
- While your cookies are cooling, dip the bottom of your chocolate sugar ice cream cones in chocolate and then dip into Halloween sprinkles/eye balls. Set the cones aside to let the chocolate harden (or pop them in the fridge/freezer for a few minutes to set quicker).
- Once your cones have hardened with the sprinkles, dip the sprinkled end again slightly in the chocolate. Hold the cone with the opening facing up towards you (like how you hold an ice cream cone) and fill the cone with about 2 tablespoons of your favorite small Halloween candies like M&Ms. Grab one of your cooled chocolate cookies and place it on top of the cone, covering the opening. Flip back upside down and set down so that the cookie is on the bottom for the brim of the Witch hat and the cone is on top. Lightly press the cone onto the cookie and let the chocolate harden so that it secures to the cookie. Repeat for all cookies.
- Enjoy!
Candy Corn Milkshakes
Makes 1 serving
Prep Time: 5 minutes, Total Time: 5 minutes
Ingredients
- 4 large scoops (about 1 and 1/2 cups) vanilla ice cream
- 1/4 cup milk
- Whipped Cream
- Yellow and Orange Food Coloring
- Halloween Sprinkles
Directions
- In a blender, blend together ice cream and milk.
- Divide the blended mixture into 2 bowls/glasses/containers. Add yellow food coloring to one and orange food coloring to the other and mix each of them separately until the milkshake is fully colored.
- Pour the yellow milkshake into a glass and tap on the table or level out the top with a spoon until it is flat. Then pour or scoop the orange milkshake on top of the yellow and even out again, creating two layers of the candy corn.
- Top with whipped cream and Halloween Sprinkles and enjoy!
Pumpkin Patch Cupcakes
