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Chocolate Mummy Cookies are an easy, fun and festive halloween cookie. Simple and delicious, these cookies are perfect for helping little hands in the kitchen!
Halloween Cookie Decorating
Decorating cookies for any occasion is just a recipe for a great time in the kitchen.
Halloween takes that to a whole new level! My kids and I love the (cute)creepy & crawlies, like lollipop ghosts or bat oreo cookies!
These Chocolate Mummy Cookies are definitely fit into that category, too.
I usually keep a few to myself and then let my kids go crazy with the frosting. You really can’t mess up a mummy too bad!
Plus, these cookies taste amazing! From the super chewy chocolate cookie to the sweet vanilla buttercream, these cookies are a home run!
How to make the Chocolate Cookie
This chocolate cookie is a very basic recipe that yields such a chewy, rich cookie time after time! To start, Brown sugar, white sugar and butter are first creamed together. It is important to cream until it is light and fluffy.
This process will take a couple of minutes but you will see that the color and texture actually changes if you cream it long enough! The ‘light’ in the phrase ‘light and fluffy’ is referring to the color of the mixture. The mixture should not be grainy at all.
Next, the eggs and vanilla go in. Mix those until well combined.
The flour, cocoa powder, soda, salt and cornstarch are then mixed in. Mix thoroughly until all the flour is combined.
Decorating the Cookies to look like a Mummy
Decorating is super simple! You can purchase Royal Icing Eyeballs at most grocery stores, but I prefer to make my own using Chocolate.
I melt some white almond bark and pipe small, uniform ‘dots’ onto a silicone baking mat. Working quickly, I place one mini chocolate chip in the center of the white chocolate. Let everything cool and dry- they are ready to use and taste so much better! Plus, they won’t break your teeth!
I used my favorite Sugar Cookie Frosting to decorate the cookies. Head over to my Sugar Cookie Frosting Post for all the details, but simply put, it is butter, crisco, powdered sugar, vanilla and milk. And it’s delicious!!
Secure your eyeballs in place with a little frosting and then pipe straight lines to create your cute little mummy! Easy enough that kids can do it! And they LOVE to help!
Chocolate Mummy Cookies
Chocolate Mummy Cookies are an easy, fun and festive Halloween cookie. Simple and delicious, these cookies are perfect for helping little hands in the kitchen!
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter room temperature
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 3/4 cup brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 1/2 tbsp vanilla extract
- 3 cups flour
- 3/4 cup cocoa
- 1 1/2 tsp soda
- 3/4 tsp salt
- 1 1/2 tsp cornstarch
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer, cream the butter and sugars together for 2-3 minutes or until light (in color!) and fluffy.
- Scrape the sides of the bowl and then add in the eggs and vanilla. Mix until combined.
- Add the flour, cocoa, soda, salt and cornstarch and mix together. Start mixing slowly, gaining speed as the flour incorporates. Mix until the dough has come together.
- Scoop the dough and arrange it onto a cookie sheet.
- Use the back of a drinking glass to flatten the cookies.
- Bake at 350° for 6-8 minutes or until the cookies are puffy and no longer glossy.
- Let the cookies rest on the hot cookie sheet for 5 minutes before transferring the a metal cooling rack.
- Decorate the cookies with Candy Eyeballs and Vanilla Buttercream
Recipe Notes
Vanilla Buttercream Icing Recipe
Chocolate Mummy Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter room temperature
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 3/4 cup brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 1/2 tbsp vanilla extract
- 3 cups flour
- 3/4 cup cocoa
- 1 1/2 tsp soda
- 3/4 tsp salt
- 1 1/2 tsp cornstarch
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer, cream the butter and sugars together for 2-3 minutes or until light (in color!) and fluffy.
- Scrape the sides of the bowl and then add in the eggs and vanilla. Mix until combined.
- Add the flour, cocoa, soda, salt and cornstarch and mix together. Start mixing slowly, gaining speed as the flour incorporates. Mix until the dough has come together.
- Scoop the dough and arrange it onto a cookie sheet.
- Use the back of a drinking glass to flatten the cookies.
- Bake at 350° for 6-8 minutes or until the cookies are puffy and no longer glossy.
- Let the cookies rest on the hot cookie sheet for 5 minutes before transferring the a metal cooling rack.
- Decorate the cookies with Candy Eyeballs and Vanilla Buttercream
