Halloween Brain Snacks

Create eerie Halloween snacks that look like brains using just cookies, crackers, and cream cheese.

15 min Easy American

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These Halloween brain snacks are quick and fun to make. Use Oreo cookies or Ritz crackers as the base, pipe on flavored cream cheese in a brain pattern, and add red gel icing or hot sauce for a bloody effect. Perfect for a spooky party treat.

Ingredients

12-16 OREO Cookies

1 tub of Strawberry Cream Cheese

1 tube of red gel icing

14-18 RITZ Crackers

1 tub of Smoked Salmon Cream Cheese

Hot sauce for garnish I used sriracha.

Directions

Fill a piping bag fitted with a small or medium round tip with one tub of flavored cream cheese. Secure the open end.

If you chose a small tip, add a dab of cream cheese in the middle of each cracker or cookie first so the piped line sticks. This is unnecessary with a medium tip.

Pipe a straight line down the center of each cracker or cookie, leaving gaps at both ends. Then pipe a wavy swirl on each side of the center line to form the brain shape.

Finish by squeezing a few small dots of red gel icing or hot sauce around the edges of the cream cheese brains, and a dot in the middle if desired.