It is perhaps my worst kept secret that Halloween is my least favorite holiday. It’s kind of hard to believe given that our house is decked out for the holiday, I co-host a Halloween Block Party for 100 people, and I’ve already purchased and stashed our Halloween candy. Just don’t ask me to watch a scary movie or go anywhere near a haunted house, and we’re good. For me, Halloween is mostly a placeholder, a way to mark time before Thanksgiving and Christmas, which are my true faves.
However, my kids and husband both love Halloween, and I love any chance to celebrate, bake something, and make things special for them.
I came across these super cute candy eyeballs at Target and wanted to try my hand at a cookie I had seen on Pinterest and jazz them up a little bit for the holiday.
I used this Jello Cookie recipe, and added the eyeballs before baking. I have a few things I would do differently next time.
First of all, I would definitely go with the recommendation to use food coloring to deepen the color of the cookies. The colors were a bit more muted than I had hoped. In fact, if I were to do this again, I might do it with ONLY food coloring as lime flavored cookies aren’t really my thing. (Although I’ve already eaten three since I baked them.)
Secondly, I would add the eyeballs immediately after baking as a few completely melted in the process, although most survived.
Finally, grape jello has almost no color to it until it gets wet so the purple was a total bust. Lessons learned!
These cookies kind of made me want to host a Halloween party. I don’t even know who I am anymore! Don’t the little green ones remind you of Mike Wazowski? Easiest themed cookie EVER!
Those are really cute! And I don’t like Halloween either. It’s totally a placeholder, ushering in the season of the best holidays. As a kid, I never liked dressing up and now, as a mom, it’s just a wild night of kids who reject their costumes at the last second and binge on too much candy, then become surly and unreasonable. Not my favorite night of the year at all. I’m such a curmudgeon.
~Jenny
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These are just too cute!
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Those are really cute! Perfect for a Halloween party.
I love your monster cookies! They look super easy to make too! Thanks!
Your Monster Cookies look adorable and yummy! Thanks so much for sharing with us at Full Plate Thursday and have a great week!
Miz Helen
I have to agree with you. Halloween is not a holiday I look forward too. I am loving your cookies though. That would help me get into the spirit! Thanks so much for joining us at the DI & DI Link party.