Monster Cookies

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!