Description
These Best Witch Hat Halloween Cookies are fun, festive, and delicious, featuring a peanut butter cookie base topped with chocolate kisses and purple sprinkles.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 tsp cornstarch
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp baking powder
- 1/8 tsp fine sea salt
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 1 cup white sugar
- 1 large egg
- 3/4 cup smooth peanut butter
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Purple gel food coloring (as needed)
- Halloween sprinkles or purple sanding sugar (for decoration)
- 33 chocolate kisses or Hugs candies, unwrapped
Instructions
- Line a sheet tray with parchment paper and set aside.
- In a large bowl, whisk together the all-purpose flour, cornstarch, baking soda, baking powder, and fine sea salt until combined.
- In a separate large bowl, cream together the softened unsalted butter and white sugar for 2 minutes until light and fluffy.
- Add the large egg, smooth peanut butter, and vanilla extract to the butter mixture and mix well.
- Incorporate the dry ingredients from Step 1 into the wet mixture and stir until a uniform dough forms.
- Add purple gel food coloring a little at a time until desired shade is reached.
- Using a 1-tablespoon cookie scoop, portion the dough into mounds and chill in the fridge for at least 2 hours or overnight.
- Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C) and prepare new sheet trays with parchment paper.
- Roll each chilled dough mound into a smooth ball and coat with sprinkles or sanding sugar.
- Arrange the coated balls on the trays, spacing them 2 inches apart, and bake for 9–11 minutes.
- Let the cookies cool for 5 minutes and press a chocolate kiss or Hug into the center of each cookie.
- Transfer the tray to the freezer for 10 minutes to prevent the chocolate from melting.
- Finish cooling on a wire rack while baking the remaining dough.
Notes
- Chilling the dough is essential for thick cookies.
- For a softer interior, slightly underbake the cookies.
- Ensure the chocolate kisses do not melt by chilling the cookies after baking.
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 10 minutes
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cookie
- Calories: 120
- Sugar: 10g
- Sodium: 50mg
- Fat: 7g
- Saturated Fat: 3g
- Unsaturated Fat: 4g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 13g
- Fiber: 1g
- Protein: 3g
- Cholesterol: 15mg