Witch Hat Cookies
A perfect Halloween treat filled with candy as an added surprise!
- Prep time
- 40 min
- Cook time
- 12 min
- Yield
- 8 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 1 cups unsalted butter at room temperature (236.5mL)
- 1 cups sugar (236.5mL)
- 1 large egg
- 2 cups all-purpose flour (473mL)
- 3/4 cups cocoa powder (177.4mL)
- 1/2 tsp salt (2.1g)
- 1 tsp vanilla (4.2g)
- 1 tsp almond extract (4.2g)
- 8 ice cream cones (sugar)
- 1 cup semi sweet chocolate
- 1 1/2 cup black sanding sugar (354.8mL)
- 1 package M&Ms (or your choice of candy)
- 3 tbsp fondant (42.9g)
- red and blue food coloring
- gold leaf or gold dusting powder
Instructions
- 1
For the Cookies:
- 2
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- 3
Combine butter and sugar in a bowl. Mix on medium-low speed with a paddle attachment. Mix until incorporated. Don’t over mix.
- 4
Add eggs and mix and scrape the sides of the bowl.
- 5
Stir in vanilla.
- 6
Sift together flour, cocoa and salt.
- 7
Add in flour mixture to the bowl. Mix at low speed for 30 seconds.
- 8
The dough is ready when it sticks to the paddle mixture. Do not over mix.
- 9
Roll out the dough between 2 pieces of parchment paper.
- 10
Put on a baking sheet and refrigerate for 1 hour.
- 11
Use a cookie cutter to cut out shapes.
- 12
Refrigerate pieces again for about 20 minutes.
- 13
Bake for 8-12 minutes or until centers are set.
- 14
Let cool.
- 15
For the Assembly:
- 16
Add red and blue food coloring to fondant (mixing more will give an even color. Mixing less will give a tie dye look)
- 17
Roll out and cut bands for the hat.
- 18
Cut out a buckle shape. You can either color the fondant yellow before rolling or you can use gold leaf or gold luster powder to create the buckle.
- 19
Cut off the end of an ice cream cone.
- 20
Cover cone in melted chocolate, then in sanding sugar.
- 21
Attach tip, chill in freezer to set.
- 22
Pipe melted chocolate onto the cut edge of the cone
- 23
Fill with candy of your choice (I chose m&ms)
- 24
Dip the edge in chocolate and attach to cookie.
- 25
Brush brim with melted chocolate onto cookie.
- 26
Sprinkle sanding sugar.
- 27
Attach band and buckle. You can brush a little water on if the fondant isn't sticking.