It was a graveyard smash! Sorry, sorry, I just HAD to, I mean, these are monster mash cookies after all!! And YOU GUYS I am so excited about them!! Come on, they’re kind of cute, right? Can you tell what they are though?? Any guesses??
Black owls and vampires!! I feel like the vampires are maybe kind of obvious, but the owls might be a little harder to make out? I dunno, when Asher walked in and saw them she said right away, “awe, they’re owls and vampires”. But the girl is pretty much a Halloween freak, so I feel like she just has a good sense for these kind of things. Whatever, either way, I cannot get over how fun these are…and how delicious. Vanilla bean sugar cookies and whipped chocolate frosting. Yes, yes… YUM!
Do you guys remember this butterbeer cake from last Friday? Well, I LOVE that cake, and I love that so many of you guys have already made it (thank you, thank you!!), but I also wanted to create a dessert that would be good to take into school or to pass around at a Halloween party. Something handheld and something that was super cute, but also DOABLE for everyone to actually recreate. Um, I don’t know about you guys, but I’ve had one too many Halloween decorating Pinterest fails. I just wanted to give you guys a recipe that would be amazing AND not make you want to pull your hair out or cry…or both. Enter these cookies!! The base of these is my simple vanilla bean slice n’bake sugar cookies from a couple of years ago. Not only is this an easy cookie to make, but it is DELICIOUS. Like I’m talking the best sugar cookies. Super vanilly, moist, with just the right amount of crumble (not cakey) and oh so buttery and sweet. Honest, just so so good. So that’s your base. For the frosting, I went with a simple chocolate buttercream, because really, you can never go wrong with chocolate buttercream. Never.
My favorite part about these cookies, I mean aside from how good they are, is that they’re actually so fun to make. I made them the other day with Asher after she got out of school and it was just really fun sister time. These are perfect to make with kids or even just for a fun Halloween girls night (like maybe tonight because, it is FRIDAY!). Nothing stressful about it, I mean these are MONSTER cookies. Meaning they’re supposed to look creepy and weird… Meaning perfection is not what you want. Asher had fun, and even attempted to make a cat, but she ate her cat before I even had time to get a photo. Can’t blame her though…these cookies are semi-addicting. So um, Friday night? What are we thinking?? Halloween movies + Monster cookie baking night? Count me in!
Then you can mash… then you can monster mash!
