Cookies & BarsNo. 3738 · The 2026 edition
Halloween Crinkle Cookies
Spooky and sweet, these Halloween Crinkle Cookies are a festive treat that's easy to make and fun to decorate.
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These Halloween Crinkle Cookies use a vanilla cake mix as a shortcut, tinted with orange, black, and purple gel coloring. After chilling and coating in icing sugar, they're baked with monster eye candies for a creepy-cute finish.
Ingredients
Directions
- Heat your oven to 350°F.
- In a mixer bowl, combine the cake mix, food coloring gel, oil, and eggs until smooth.
- Refrigerate the dough for 15 minutes.
- Scoop out a tablespoon of dough, roll it into a ball, then coat it in icing sugar.
- Place the sugar-coated balls in the freezer for 10 to 15 minutes.
- Arrange the dough balls on a parchment-lined baking sheet and press a monster eye candy into the center of each.
- Chill the baking sheet with cookies in the fridge for 15 minutes.
- Bake for 6 to 8 minutes.
- Let the cookies cool on the pan, then transfer them to a wire rack to cool completely.
