Halloween cookies are delicious monstrously soft and tasty orange treats, a reinterpretation of my Christmas crinkle cookies characterized by the intense red color and the delightful orange flavor.
Incredibly easy to make, they are ready in a few minutes, after a short rest you will need to create many small spheres, roll them in sugar, add the colorful eyes, and bake them for about 20 minutes; during baking, they will slightly flatten forming the typical cracks on the surface of this cookie.
I don’t really like Halloween, but I’ve wanted to make eyeball crinkle cookies since last year; I saw them on various American sites and they seemed really fun to make, and I can confirm it, today I made them with my daughter and we laughed a lot.
If you don’t want to use red gel food coloring, you can buy natural colorings, you can find them in well-stocked supermarkets or online.
If you like crinkle cookies, I recommend trying the soft coconut cookies or the almond ones, two irresistible variants.
Also try:
- Difficulty: Very easy
- Cost: Cheap
- Rest time: 1 Hour
- Preparation time: 15 Minutes
- Portions: 17 Pieces
- Cooking methods: Electric oven
- Cuisine: Italian
- Seasonality: Autumn
- Energy 183.67 (Kcal)
- Carbohydrates 32.23 (g) of which sugars 18.39 (g)
- Proteins 2.60 (g)
- Fat 5.54 (g) of which saturated 3.46 (g)of which unsaturated 1.96 (g)
- Fibers 0.43 (g)
- Sodium 5.42 (mg)
Indicative values for a portion of 40 g processed in an automated way starting from the nutritional information available on the CREA* and FoodData Central** databases. It is not food and / or nutritional advice.
* CREATES Food and Nutrition Research Center: https://www.crea.gov.it/alimenti-e-nutrizione https://www.alimentinutrizione.it ** U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. FoodData Central, 2019. https://fdc.nal.usda.gov
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2/3 cup sugar
- 7 tbsp butter
- 1 egg (medium – 50 g)
- 3 tbsp orange juice (or lemon or milk)
- 2 1/2 tsp baking powder
- orange zest (grated, you need the zest of one natural orange)
- 1 tsp red food coloring (gel)
- to taste granulated sugar
- to taste powdered sugar
- 17 sugar eyes
Tools
- 1 Bowl
- 2 Small Bowls
- 1 Baking sheet
- Baking paper
- 1 Electric whisk
Procedure
Let the butter sit at room temperature for 15/20 minutes or soften it in the microwave for 30 seconds.
Put the softened butter in a bowl, add the sugar, and beat it with electric whisks.
Add the egg at room temperature and, once incorporated, add the orange juice and zest and a teaspoon of red gel food coloring (or natural powder colorings).
Sift the flour with the baking powder, add it to the mixture, working it with your hands or a spatula until you get a homogeneous dough.
Form a loaf, wrap it in cling film, and place it in the fridge for 1 hour.
After resting, form 1.25 oz balls and roll them first in granulated sugar then in powdered sugar.Place the cookies on the baking sheet lined with baking paper, slightly wet the undecorated side of the sugar eyes, and place them in the center of the cookies, pressing gently.
Bake the cookies in a preheated static oven at 340°F for 20 minutes, they should remain soft and double in volume.
Let the cookies rest on the baking sheet until completely cooled, then transfer them to a tray or decorated plate.
The soft Halloween cookies are ready, you can serve them with tea or put them in special bags for a monstrous gift.
Tips
Storage
The soft Halloween cookies can be kept for 4/5 days in a tin box.
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