Monster Eye Sugar Cookies
This fun twist on peanut butter blossoms uses the sugar cookie recipe from Glorious Treats as a base to make spooky monster eye cookies for Halloween!
Ingredients
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 cup unsalted butter (at room temperature)
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1½ tsp vanilla extract
Extra ingredients for monster eyes
- 2 dozen small chocolate candies (like Kisses, peanut butter cups, or Rolos--unwrapped)
- colored sanding sugar
- candy eyeball sprinkles
Instructions
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In a medium bowl stir together flour and baking powder. Set aside.
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In your electric mixer bowl cream together butter and sugar.
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Add the egg and vanilla and beat together until blended.
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Add the flour mixture in a bit at a time. This part is best done with the dough hook attachment of your electric mixer.
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Let dough chill in refrigerator for 10-30 minutes. Unwrap chocolate candies for later.
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Preheat oven to 350℉. Make heaping tablespoon size balls of dough and roll in colored sanding sugar.
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Bake for approximately 10 minutes. Place an unwrapped candy in the middle of your cookies as soon as they come out of the oven (while still warm) and then immediately place a candy eye sprinkle on top.