Halloween Monster Cookies are a fun and spooky treat. Fudgey cookies full of chocolate flavor and black coco powder. They are then embellished with Googley Candy Eyes and finished off with a Reese’s Peanut Butter Franken Cup.
This might not be my most favorite holiday, but I truly do enjoy making fun and festive recipes for Halloween. It all kind of started with my famous Feet Loaf. If you are here for desserts only then my Ghost Brownies are a definite must! Since you might have more Franken Peanut Butter Cups on hand from this recipe then you can always make my Monster Peanut Butter Cookie Bars. They are a huge hit!
Easy Halloween Recipes
Cake mix cookies are great to make when you don’t have a lot of time on your hands. I also love the texture of them when they are baked up. You can use any cake mix to create any flavor. I once won a huge cooking contest using them when I created my Chocolate Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies.
These are super fudgy and pair really well with the milk chocolate and peanut butter combination from the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. I absolutely love the green creme bottoms of the festive Halloween version.
How To Make Cake Mix Cookies
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- In a medium bowl whisk together the oil, eggs and vanilla together until it is all well blended.
- Add In the cake mix and black cocoa powder. Mix it until combined.
- Using a 1/4 cup measuring cup, measure out cookie dough.
- Place 6 cookie dough ball evenly spaced on a baking sheet.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes until the center is just set and cooked through.
- Remove from the oven and immediately press a peanut butter cup (green side up) into the center of each cookie.
- Then gently press eyes Into the cookie and the peanut butter cup.
- Let them cool completely before serving.
You must check out these other Halloween dessert recipes!
- Halloween Sugar Cookie Bars
- Mummy Brownies
- Trick or Treat Pancakes
- Skewered Eyeballs Donut Holes
- Graveyard Pudding Cups
- Hocus Pocus Cupcakes by House of Nash Eats
Halloween Monster Cookies Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 Box Devil's Food Cake Mix
- 2 Large Eggs
- 1/2 Cup Vegetable Oil
- 1/4 Cup Black Cocoa Powder
- 1/2 tsp Pure Vanilla Extract
- 12 Reese's Peanut Butter Franken Cups
- Googley Candy Eyes
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a medium bowl whisk together oil, eggs and vanilla together until well blended.
- Add In cake mix and black cocoa powder. Mix until combined.
- Using a 1/4 cup measuring cup, measure out cookie dough.
- Place 6 cookie dough ball evenly spaced on a baking sheet.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes until the center is just set and cooked through.
- Remove from the oven and immediately press a peanut butter cup (green side up) into the center of each cookie.
- Then gently press eyes Into the cookie and the peanut butter cup.
- Let them cool completely before serving.
Karalee
October 10, 2021 at 4:41 pmThese turned out so cute! Thanks for the fun recipe!