Description
These Halloween Crinkle Cookies are festive, soft vanilla cake mix cookies with vibrant orange, black, and purple colors, topped with fun monster eye candies. Perfect for spooky celebrations, they have a crackly sugar coating and a tender inside.
Ingredients
Scale
Cookie Dough
- 1 box vanilla cake mix (e.g., Betty Crocker)
- 2 eggs
- ⅓ cup vegetable oil
- food coloring gel in orange, black, and purple
Coating and Decoration
- 2 cups icing sugar (for rolling and dusting)
- monster eye candies
Instructions
- Preheat oven: Set your oven to 350°F to get it ready for baking the cookies.
- Mix dough: In a mixer bowl, combine the vanilla cake mix, eggs, vegetable oil, and your choice of food coloring gel thoroughly until smooth and evenly colored.
- Chill dough: Place the dough in the refrigerator and chill for 15 minutes to make it easier to handle.
- Form balls: Scoop a tablespoon of dough and roll it into a ball with your hands, then roll each ball gently in the icing sugar to coat it completely.
- Freeze dough balls: Place the sugar-coated dough balls in the freezer for 10 to 15 minutes to firm up before baking.
- Prepare baking sheet: Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Place the chilled dough balls on the sheet and gently press a monster eye candy into the center of each.
- Chill cookies before baking: Put the prepared baking sheet with cookies into the refrigerator for 15 minutes to chill them before baking.
- Bake cookies: Bake the cookies in the preheated oven for 8 minutes, or until the surfaces crack but the cookies remain soft.
- Cool cookies: Let the cookies cool on the baking pan briefly, then transfer them to a wire rack to cool completely before serving.
Notes
- Chill the dough twice to help the cookies hold their shape and develop a nice crackled surface.
- Use gel food coloring for bright, vivid colors without adding extra moisture to the dough.
- Roll the dough balls gently in icing sugar to maintain the coating intact without breaking it.
- Do not overbake; removing the cookies as soon as cracks appear keeps them soft and tender.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cookie
- Calories: 110 kcal
- Sugar: 15 g
- Sodium: 120 mg
- Fat: 3 g
- Saturated Fat: 0.5 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 2 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 18 g
- Fiber: 0.5 g
- Protein: 1 g
- Cholesterol: 20 mg
