I’ve had an off week this week. I had all my ghoulish grub recipes made up and ready to go but just have not felt well this week and have been going to bed WAY early and sleeping much later than I should. I guess constantly burning the candle at multiple ends of the wick is eventually going to catch up with me and my flame is only expected to go out. Be sure and check back over the weekend to get the 3 remaining Halloweenie recipes I have brewed up (and check below for the winner of the $25 Walmart Gift Card).
But on with today’s recipe, which by the way is a twofer. I don’t know what my obsession is with making food look like eyeballs but it seems to be a common theme. The first Halloween recipe I ever blogged about (geez a whopping 3 years ago) was some Deviled Egg Eyeballs (side note check these totally cute Deviled Egg Spiders featured on The Sister’s Café today). Then last year as part of the first ever Ghoulish Grub week I made eyeballs out of powdered donuts and chocolate covered Oreos. This year a Bloody Eyeball Soup (it just darned on me how gross that sounds).
And today more eyeball cookies! I am sure you are all aware of the white chocolate dipped Nutter Butter cookies topped with two mini-chocolate chips to look like ghosts (well if you are unfamiliar with these cookies check out the second recipe below). Those cookies are so cute (who ever thought of that idea is a pure genius) but I decided to come up with my own version and of course my natural tendencies were eyeballs. Still super easy and of course eerie enough for Halloween!
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Eyeball Cookies
By Heather of Kitchen Concoctions: www.kitchen-concoctions.com
Printable Version
Nutter Butter cookies
White chocolate almond bark OR white candy melts
Gummy Life Savers
Skittles candies
Red decorator’s frosting
Melt almond bark or candy melts according to package directions.
Once melted, dip Nutter Butter Cookies in melted chocolate. Place dipped cookies on wax paper and allow chocolate to partially hardened and place two Life Saver candies on cookie. Place small amount of decorator frosting on Skittle candies and adhere to Life Saver. Using remaining decorator frosting, draw red lines around candies.
Ghost Cookies
Printable Version
Nutter Butter cookies
White chocolate almond bark OR white candy melts
Mini-chocolate chips
Melt almond bark or candy melts according to package directions.
Once melted, dip Nutter Butter Cookies in melted chocolate. Place dipped cookies on wax paper and allow chocolate to partially hardened and place two mini-chocolate chips on cookie.
recipe adapted from recipes as seen all over the web
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