Halloween Cookies

If you have bags of candy after Halloween, then I have the recipe for you to use up some of your stash. I’ve tried this recipe with Oreos, M&Ms, Hershey bars, and good old chocolate chips… and I think they’d be pretty awesome with whatever chocolate candy you have on hand. This recipe is so good, you will have to hide the results from your family. Seriously… I had a box of these to take to a friend and my husband went through all but two of them in about an hour…

1 cup soft butter
1 1/2 cups packed brown sugar
1/4 cup white sugar
1/4 cup turbinado sugar
2 large eggs
1 tsp vanilla (I used butter vanilla emulsion)
2 tsp baking soda
3 cups flour
2 cups chopped candy bars (or chocolate chips if you like a classic cookie)

Preheat oven to 350 . Whisk the dry ingredients together in a bowl and set aside. Cream the butter and sugars together until light and fluffy (if you have a Bosch, you can even double this recipe). Add eggs one at a time and vanilla, and mix until smooth.

Slowly mix in the dry ingredients, just until they are incorporated into the wet mixture…do not overmix. Fold in your mix-ins, just to get them spread around.

I use a 2-ounce scoop for smaller cookies, but you could also use a big scoop if you want to do big monster cookies.

Scoop the dough onto parchment-paper lined cookie sheets and bake about 7-9 minutes. Allow them to cool on the tray (if you can wait that long).

I’m a bit of a cookie snob, and let me tell you, this is my new favorite cookie recipe! Try them with your favorite candy bars and let me know what you think!