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!
Ingredients
For The Cookie Dough
1cupunsalted buttersoftened, 2 sticks
1cupsugar
1egg
2teaspoonsvanilla
2cupsflour
2tablespoonscorn starch
½teaspoonsalt
¾cupcocoa powderunsweetened
For The Frosting
1/2cupunsalted buttersoftened, 1 stick
2cupspowdered sugar
1 ½tablespoonsmilk
½teaspoonvanilla extract
candy eyes
Instructions
To Make The Cookie Dough
With an electric mixer, cream together butter and sugar until mixed and fluffy. Add egg and vanilla then continue to mix until smooth.
In a second bowl mix together flour, corn starch, cocoa powder, and salt until well combined
A little at a time add in the dry flour and cocoa mixture to the butter and sugar mixture. Mix well each time until the dry ingredients are fully mixed into the wet ingredients to form a dough.
Roll the cookie dough into a long log with a diameter of 1 ½ inches. Wrap the cookie dough with parchment paper. Place the dough in the refrigerator for at least one hour to chill.
To Bake The Cookies
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
Slice the dough into round sliced that are about 3/8 inch slices. Place cookie slices on a baking sheet lined with parchement pape with about an inch of space in between slices.
Bake cookies for 8-10 minutes or until cookies are a just a little crispy on the edges. Remove cookies from the oven.
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 completly.
To Frost And Decorate Cookies
In the bowl of an electric mixer beat the butter until light, fluffy and has no lumps.
Add in powdered sugar one cup at a time, mixing well in between. Add in milk and vanilla, mixing until smooth.
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.
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.
Let the frosting to dry on the cookies before storing in an airtight container until ready to serve!
Notes
I've used cane sugar in this recipe in place of granulated sugar, but regular white granulated sugar works just fine for this recipe.
This cookie dough can also be frozen as a log and then sliced when ready. Frozen cookie dough can be kept in the freezer for up to three months.