Get ready to cast a delicious spell on your taste buds with these adorable Witch Cookies! These easy Halloween treats are not only the perfect treat for your spooky season festivities but are also so much fun to make with kids.
Using simple ingredients like Fudge Stripe Cookies, Hershey Kiss Candies, and colorful icing, you can whip up this halloween cookie recipe in no time. Let's dive into the magic of making these bewitchingly tasty treats!
Why You'll Love This Recipe
- Quick and Easy Recipe: With just a few simple steps, you'll have these spooky treats ready in a flash, making them the perfect last-minute addition to your Halloween party.
- Kid-Friendly: Get your little witches and wizards involved in the kitchen – these adorable witch hat cookies are fun and festive treats to make together.
- Festive and Adorable: These cookies are not only delicious but also look the part with their vibrant colors and witch's hats made out of chocolate kisses.
- Versatile: Customize the colors to match the theme of your next halloween party or personal preference.
- No-Bake: These fun witch hat cookies are a no-bake treat! You can have them whipped up in no time without having to turn on your oven.
Halloween Witch Hat Cookies Ingredients
- Fudge Stripe Cookies
- Hershey's Kisses Candies
- Decorating icing
- Orange gel food coloring
- Lime green gel food coloring
- Purple gel food coloring
- Halloween Sprinkles
How to Make Easy Witch Hat Cookies
Divide the tub of decorating icing evenly into a separate small bowl for each color.
To one bowl, add about ½ tsp. orange gel food coloring, and stir until well combined.
To the second bowl, add about ½ tsp. lime green gel food coloring, and stir until well combined.
To the last bowl, add about ½ tsp. purple gel food coloring, and stir until well combined.
Lay out your Fudge Stripe Cookies upside down onto a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper.
Add each color of frosting to its own piping bag (or a plastic bag with a small corner of the bag snipped off).
Take the orange icing and pipe a generous circle onto 8 of the cookies.
Repeat with the lime green and then the purple frostings.
Place a Hershey Kiss candy onto the center of each cook to make the witch hats, pressing down to form the ring of frosting around the "brim of the hat."
Work quickly and sprinkle with Halloween sprinkles as you go, so that the sprinkles can attach before the frosting sets.
Let set before serving.
Tips for the Best Results
- Make sure your decorating icing is at room temperature for easy piping.
- To store leftover icing, cover the bowls with plastic wrap and keep it in an airtight container in the refrigerator.
- For a different flavor twist, use different flavored Hershey Kiss candies, such as almond or peanut butter.
- Allow the cookies to fully set and dry before stacking or storing.
Substitutions and Variations
- Experiment with different colors to match the them of your halloween parties or personal preferences.
- Swap out the Fudge Stripe Cookies for chocolate chip cookies or even peanut butter cookies for a unique twist.
- Experiment with different toppings like maybe some festive sprinkles, maybe even some black sprinkles with edible glitter!
- To create a more realistic-looking hat, you can pipe a small line of frosting around the top of the hat to create a band.
- You can also use different colors of frosting to decorate the hats. For example, you could use green frosting for the brim and orange frosting for the band.
FAQs About This Recipe
Yes, you can use homemade frosting, just make sure it's a thick consistency suitable for piping.
Absolutely! These cookies can be made a day in advance and stored in an airtight container in a cool place.
If you're concerned about the Hershey Kisses melting, you can refrigerate them for a short while before placing them on the cookies.
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📖 Recipe
Witches Cookies
Ingredients
- 24 Fudge Stripe Cookies
- 24 Hershey Kiss Candies
- 1 16 ounce tub of decorating icing
- Orange gel food color
- Lime green gel food color
- Purple gel food color
- Halloween Sprinkles
Instructions
- Divide the tub of decorating icing evenly into 3 bowls.
- To one bowl, add about ½ tsp. orange gel food coloring, and stir until well combined.
- To the second bowl, add about ½ tsp. Lime green gel food coloring, and stir until well combined.
- To the last bowl, add about ½ tsp. purple gel food coloring, and stir until well combined.
- Lay out your fudge stripe cookies upside down onto a cutting mat.
- Add each color of frosting to its own piping bag.
- Take the orange frosting and pipe a generous circle onto 8 of the cookies.
- Repeat with the lime green and then the purple frostings.
- Place a Hershey kiss candy onto each, pressing down to form the ring of frosting around the “brim of the hat”.
- Work quickly and sprinkle with Halloween sprinkles as you go, so that the sprinkles can attach before the frosting sets.
Notes
- Experiment with different colors to match the them of your halloween parties or personal preferences.
- Swap out the Fudge Stripe Cookies for chocolate chip cookies or even peanut butter cookies for a unique twist.
- Experiment with different toppings like maybe some festive sprinkles, maybe even some black sprinkles with edible glitter!
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