Mini Halloween Mummy Cookies

These chocolate Halloween Mini Mummy Cookies are the perfect spooky addition to your Halloween celebrations. These delicious little cookies make plenty to share, and are so fun!

 

Why We Love These Mini Halloween Mummy Cookies

• Fun For Halloween– These spooky mummy cookies are so cute and spooky for Halloween
• Great For a Crowd– This recipe makes a lot of mini cookies quick and easily. Perfect for a Halloween parties or to share for a school party.
• Kids Can Help Make– These cookies are a fun project for kids to help bake, and easy enough that they can decorate.
• Prep Ahead– You can make the dough ahead of time in the fridge, or even freeze the dough and slice when ready to bake.

Ingredients For Mummy Cookie Dough

For these adorable mummy cookies, you’ll need ingredients for both the cookie dough and the frosting.

Ingredients For The Cookie Dough

• unsalted butter – softened
• granulated sugar – I’ve used cane sugar in this picture but regular white granulated sugar works just fine for this recipe.
• egg
• vanilla
• flour
• corn starch
• salt
• cocoa powder – unsweetened

Ingredients For The Frosting

• unsalted butter – softened
• powdered sugar
• milk
• vanilla extract
• candy eyes– not pictured but find them in the baking or Halloween aisle

How Do I Make Mini Mummy Cookies?

To Make The Cookie Dough

1. With an electric mixer, cream together butter and sugar until mixed and fluffy. Add egg and vanilla then continue to mix until smooth.

2. In a second bowl mix together flour, corn starch, cocoa powder, and salt until well combined
3. A little at a time add in the dry flour and cocoa mixture to the butter and sugar mixture.

4. Mix well each time until the dry ingredients are fully mixed into the wet ingredients to form a dough.

5. Roll the cookie dough into a long log with a diameter of 1 ½ inches. Wrap the cookie dough with parchment paper. (You can also use wax paper to wrap the dough, but you can not bake in the oven on wax paper.) Place the dough in the refrigerator for at least one hour to chill.

To Bake The Cookies

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
2. Slice the dough into round sliced that are about 3/8 inch slices. Place cookie slices on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper with about an inch of space in between slices.

3. Bake cookies for 8-10 minutes or until cookies are a just a little crispy on the edges. Remove cookies from the oven.
4. Allow the cookies to cool on the baking sheet for 2-3 minutes, they will continue to cook on the baking sheet. Move cookies to a wire rack or a clean kitchen towel to finish cooling completely.

How To Frost And Decorate Cookies

1. In the bowl of an electric mixer beat the butter until light, fluffy and has no lumps.
2. Add in powdered sugar one cup at a time, mixing well in between. Add in milk and vanilla, mixing until smooth.
3. Scoop frosting into a piping bag or a strong zip-top bag. Twist the top of the bag and carefully snip the corner of the bag with scissors.
4. Decorate the cookies in strips across each cookie with frosting. This creates the mummy’s wrappings. Use a small dot of frosting on the back of each candy eye to attach them to the cookie.

5. Let the frosting to dry on the cookies before storing in an airtight container until ready to serve!

How Do I Freeze This Cookie Dough?

These mummy cookies are icebox-style cookies which means they are really easy to freeze. Once you make the long log of dough, wrap the dough in freezer paper. Then place the dough in a freezer-safe container or zip-top bag.

When you are ready to bake the dough, take the dough out of the freezer and let it thaw for about five minutes on the counter so it’s easier to slice. Slice the cookie dough into 3/8 inch slices then bake and frost following the rest of the instructions to decorate.

Cookie dough in the freezer lasts for up to three months.