Cute and Easy Halloween Cookies

 

We won't be trick or treating this year, or giving out candy, because of the pandemic.  It really made me think about how nice a tradition trick or treating is, and how much we miss connecting with our neighbors.

So we decided to make some Halloween cookies to drop off on our neighbor's porches!

We made a cookie a day for three days, starting with the longest keeping cookies.  You can also freeze the cookies as you make them if you were taking more time (which is what I do with Christmas cookies).

Our first cookies were these mummy cookies (possibly because we had just watched Abbot and Costello Meet the Mummy).

 

 

 

 

 

Our recipe is here, developed during one of our Ancient Egypt studies.

You could also use any sugar cookie dough- just shape it into sort of flattened peanuts.

We simplified the wrapping marks by making them with forks, and we added little eyes with sprinkles.

The powdered sugar helps accent the wrapping marks.

Next up were eyeball cookies.  

This is ordinary chocolate chip cookie dough without the chips, but you could do it with chips, even with pre-made sugar cookie or chocolate chip cookie dough.

We added raspberry flavor and red food coloring to make them look more monstery, but there are loads of possible color and flavor combinations!

The eye ball parts are white chocolate melting disks with a chocolate chip on top to look like a pupil.

Once baked, the cookies spread a little, but the chocolates held the circle shape nicely.

The raspberry-white chocolate-dark chocolate combination was delicious! 

Lastly we made brownies, mostly because I thought a cookie plate with three cookies has to have more chocolate.  

We used our normal brownie recipe, and then I squirted on some melted white chocolate in sort of ghost shaped squiggles.

I added some fall leaf sprinkles to fancy it up a bit since I thought my ghost squiggles looked a lot more squiggly than ghosty!

Bigger families got more cookies

 

This is what the "plates" ended up looking like (the plates are recycled takeout containers).

We cut out pumpkin shaped tags and wrote little notes to accompany the cookies, then went off and placed them strategically on porches.

Not a normal Halloween, but at least a bit of neighborly connection.

Happy Halloween!