Eyeball Cookies. Dip vanilla wafers in melted chocolate; allow excess to drip off. For the bloodshot effect, dip the tiny end of a toothpick in red food colouring and squiggle the lines from the pupil outward, but not quite to the edges of the ball. These are quite tasty--considering how creepy. Some may find it a little unsettling to have your tempting treats staring right back at you. But snack time's sweeter with these peanut butter eyeball cookies frosted to look like creepy little peepers.
A word of advice: Just avert your eyes and enjoy.
How To Make Halloween Eyeball Cookies Sandwiches.
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You can cook Eyeball Cookies using 7 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Eyeball Cookies
- You need 1 of refrigerated sugar cookie log.
- It's 1/4 cup of granulated sugar.
- Prepare 1/2 tsp of ground cinnamon.
- You need 1 of vanilla frosting.
- Prepare 1 of green maraschino cherries, drained and cut in half.
- Prepare 1 of mini chocolate chips.
- You need 2 of tubes (.67 oz.)red decorating gel.
Pipe icing onto one cookie and place a second cookie on top to create your cookie sandwich. Make indentation in center of each ball with finger. Eyeball cookies, Halloween eyeball cookies, Shortbread eyeball cookies, Halloween cookies. Being an American family far away from the US means the kids miss out on Halloween fun.
Eyeball Cookies step by step
- Mix cinnamon and sugar together. Roll cookie dough into 1 inch balls, roll in cinnamon/sugar mixture. Place on greased cookie sheet. Bake according to package directions. (350 for about 10-12 minutes) Let them cool completely..
- Top cookies with frosting. Place 1 cherry in the center. Place 1 chocolate chip in center of cherry. Make squiggly lines with red gel on outside of cherries to look like veins..
One of the things Ziv misses about being in the US is Halloween and Thanksgiving and he wished the kids would get to experience it. These easy eyeball cookies are one of our favorite Halloween food crafts. This OREO Cookie Eyeballs Halloween Treat DIY aka my OREO eyeballs are fun to make and the kids will definitely love to eat them! You can change up the ingredients a little bit to work with items you can find, but you really don't need much for this easy cookie recipe other than OREO cookies and different frostings. Ha! 😀 LOVE the eyeball cookies.