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Draw-Your-Own Easy Halloween Cookies

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Last Updated:August 25, 2018Published:September 18, 2017
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Forget the fancy decorating and grab the edible food pen to draw-your-own easy Halloween cookies! Using a white peanut butter cup as the “canvas”, you can customize with your own icons, faces or spooktacular phrases!

Forget the fancy decorating and grab the edible food pen to draw-your-own easy Halloween cookies! Using a traditional peanut butter cup as the "canvas", you can customize with your own icons, faces or spooktacular phrases! #Halloween | #Cookies | www.DesignEatRepeat.com

One of my favorite food crafting discoveries the past few years has been the edible food marker. Traditionally used to add embellishments to royal icing sugar cookies, these markers are known to be a great alternative to having to pipe thin details. And while I love a good sugar cookie decorating challenge, spending 24+ hours in the kitchen meticulously decorating cookies is something I reserve for a few times a year. The rest of the time, I go the easy route with cookies that can be whipped up and devoured within an hour.

So today I’m sharing an easy idea to achieve a more custom cookie look without all the hours of decorating. Using white peanut butter cups as our “canvas” and a edible food pen to draw on fun details, we can achieve cute cookies in under an hour!

Forget the fancy decorating and grab the edible food pen to draw-your-own easy Halloween cookies! Using a traditional peanut butter cup as the "canvas", you can customize with your own icons, faces or spooktacular phrases! #Halloween | #Cookies | www.DesignEatRepeat.com

What You Need for these Easy Halloween Cookies:

  • 1 Recipe White Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup Cookies (Below)
  • Full-Size White Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups
  • Edible Black Food Marker
  • Optional: Candy Eyeballs

Forget the fancy decorating and grab the edible food pen to draw-your-own easy Halloween cookies! Using a traditional peanut butter cup as the "canvas", you can customize with your own icons, faces or spooktacular phrases! #Halloween | #Cookies | www.DesignEatRepeat.com

How to Make these Easy Halloween Cookies:

Step 1: Mix Dough & Roll Into Balls

After mixing the dough, roll into 3-tablespoon sized balls and slightly flatten the tops of each one (see above).

Forget the fancy decorating and grab the edible food pen to draw-your-own easy Halloween cookies! Using a traditional peanut butter cup as the "canvas", you can customize with your own icons, faces or spooktacular phrases! #Halloween | #Cookies | www.DesignEatRepeat.com

Step 2: Bake & Press in Peanut Butter Cup

After removing from oven, immediately press peanut butter cups into the center of each cookie.

Forget the fancy decorating and grab the edible food pen to draw-your-own easy Halloween cookies! Using a traditional peanut butter cup as the "canvas", you can customize with your own icons, faces or spooktacular phrases! #Halloween | #Cookies | www.DesignEatRepeat.com

Step 3: Cool, Then Remove From Cookie Sheet

Allow the cookies to cool on the hot baking sheet for 10 minutes before removing them from cookie sheet. If needed, pop the cookies in the refrigerator to help re-harden the chocolate.

Step 4: Draw on Designs

Wait until the chocolate is completely cooled and hardened, then use the edible food pen to draw on fun details like spider webs and Halloween phrases, or simply attach candy eyeballs when the chocolate is still melted.

Forget the fancy decorating and grab the edible food pen to draw-your-own easy Halloween cookies! Using a traditional peanut butter cup as the "canvas", you can customize with your own icons, faces or spooktacular phrases! #Halloween | #Cookies | www.DesignEatRepeat.com

Step 5: Scoop Sherbet

Maybe it’s the designer in me, but drawing on cookies is my new favorite thing to do. After finishing, wrap them in plastic and slip them in a printable treat bag for an even sweeter Halloween party favor.

Forget the fancy decorating and grab the edible food pen to draw-your-own easy Halloween cookies! Using a traditional peanut butter cup as the "canvas", you can customize with your own icons, faces or spooktacular phrases! #Halloween | #Cookies | www.DesignEatRepeat.com

White Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup Cookies

Forget the fancy decorating and grab the edible food pen to draw-your-own easy Halloween cookies! Using a white peanut butter cup as the "canvas", you can customize with your own icons, faces or spooktacular phrases!

Author: Melissa Rose
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes
Total Time: 20 minutes
Course: Dessert
Category: Cookies
Servings: 24 Cookies
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Ingredients

  • 3/4 cup 1 1/2 sticks butter, softened
  • 1 cup peanut butter
  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • 1 cup white sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
  • 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 24 full-sized white chocolate peanut butter cups

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Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line baking sheet with parchment paper.
  2. In a large bowl, cream together butter, peanut butter, brown sugar, and white sugar with an electric mixer on medium speed for 30 seconds. Add in vanilla and eggs and continue to mix for 10 seconds.
  3. Add baking soda and mix on low speed for 10 seconds. Add flour and continue to mix until all flour is incorporated.
  4. Scoop dough into (3 tablespoon sized) balls. Lightly flatten each ball before placing on cookie sheet.
  5. Bake at 350 degrees for 8-9 minutes. They may look underdone, but they will finish baking on the hot cookie sheet after you take it out of the oven. (Of course, because ovens bake differently use your best judgement to keep them in a minute longer if they look severely underbaked.)
  6. After removing from oven, immediately press peanut butter cups into the center of each cookie.
  7. Allow the cookies to cool on the hot baking sheet for 10 minutes before removing them from cookie sheet. If needed, pop the cookies in the refrigerator to help re-harden the chocolate.
  8. Wait until completely cooled and hardened before drawing.

Last Step! Please leave a review and rating letting me know how you liked this recipe! This helps my small business thrive so I can continue providing free recipes and high-quality content for you.

Nutrition

Calories: 236kcal
Fat: 11g
Saturated fat: 4g
Cholesterol: 28mg
Sodium: 126mg
Potassium: 102mg
Carbohydrates: 29g
Sugar: 18g
Protein: 4g
Vitamin A: 195%
Calcium: 18%
Iron: 0.9%

Gift This!

Gift in these printable treat pouches or use plastic bag with a printable bag topper! 

So tell me in the comments below, what would YOU draw on these easy Halloween cookies?

Package These Cookies In One of the Printables Below…

Treat Yo'Self Printable Treat Bags!

Printable Treat Yo’ Self Cookie Pouch

Printable Treat Bag Toppers

All-Occasion Printable Cookie Pouches

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2 Comments

  1. Sarah Grace says

    09/24/2017 at 8:56 pm

    How fun!! Any ideas for a peanut butter free substitute?? These would be a great activity for my daughters preschool Halloween party!

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    • Melissa says

      09/24/2017 at 9:03 pm

      Hi Sara! My first thought is you could put little squares of white chocolate in the centers of a brownie or chocolate cookie.

      Something like this recipe but with white chocolate squares placed upside down for a flat drawing surface! https://www.designeatrepeat.com/2016/01/chewy-double-chocolate-caramel-cookies

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