Monster Eyeball Cookies Recipe
These adorable Monster Eyeball Cookies are colorful, soft sugar Halloween cookies decorated with candy eyeballs. They're easy to make, fun for kids, and perfect for spooky Halloween parties, fun Monster parties and kids' dessert trays.
Servings: 36 cookies
Calories: 107kcal
Equipment
Ingredients
- 3 cups all purpose flour
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 cup butter softened
- 1 cup sugar plus more for rolling the cookies in
- 1 large egg
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 3 packages of Jell-O one purple, one green, one orange
- Food coloring purple, green and orange
- Candy eyes
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Place flour, salt, baking soda, and baking powder in a medium bowl and stir to combine.
- Cream the butter and sugar together in a large bowl or in the bowl of a stand mixer. Add the egg and vanilla to the mixture and continue mixing until combined.
- Slowly add the dry ingredients to the butter-sugar mixture and continue to mix until it comes together as a dough.
- Divide the dough into 3 even pieces and knead in 3 tbsps of different colored Jell-O into each ball of dough. Don’t knead excessively. Add a few drops of food coloring at a time to the dough until you have a rich color you desire.
- Shape the dough into 1-inch balls, roll them in sugar, then flatten them with the bottom of a bowl or cup. Place them 2 inches apart on a parchment-lined baking sheet.
- Bake for 8-10 minutes until just done. Immediately press the candy eyes into the cookies after they are removed from the oven.
- Allow to cool on a wire rack.
Notes
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Nutrition
Serving: 1 | Calories: 107kcal | Carbohydrates: 14g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 5g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.3g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1g | Trans Fat: 0.2g | Cholesterol: 18mg | Sodium: 150mg | Potassium: 15mg | Fiber: 0.3g | Sugar: 6g | Vitamin A: 164IU | Calcium: 10mg | Iron: 1mg