Have you bought your Halloween candy yet? It’s less than two weeks away! Before you know it, you’ll have to start pulling out your pumpkins and leaf decorations for Thanksgiving.
If you still have to do your candy shopping, don’t fret. Peeps has a wonderful line of individually wrapped marshmallow chicks, easy for giving away to trick or treaters.
See? I know what I’m giving away to kids! I don’t get any trick or treaters in my apartment complex because it’s a little difficult to get into, but I’ll be giving these away at work.
They’re quite cute and the perfect size for snacking. Plus, they come in bright and festive Halloween colors!
But today, I’m focusing on the regular Peeps-sized ghosts. The sugar glistening on top always draws me in. Sugar’s a magical thing, I tell ya.
That middle row of ghosts look much friendlier than the bottom. I especially love the Elvis hairdo in the center.
All I did was bake dark chocolate cookies, stick a ghost on top of an upside down cookie, microwaved it for a couple of seconds to get the marshmallow mushy, and then twist another cookie on top. Voi-la! You just made a cookie sandwich.
The deep chocolate brown color of the cookies would look great on a Halloween themed plate, don’t you think?
I played with the microwaving time to see what would result in the best marshmallow consistency. Ten seconds is far too long, but five seconds is not enough. See the cookie on the bottom left? That was ten seconds.
It’s not a bad thing, it just wasn’t perfect. I wanted the marshmallow to stay in between the cookies, not ooze out.
No matter, I’ll eat them all.
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup softened butter
- 1/2 cup light brown sugar
- 1/4 cup white sugar
- 1 egg
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 2/3 cups dark chocolate chips
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- 1/4 cup dark cocoa powder
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
- pinch of salt
- Marshmallow Peeps
Directions
- Preheat oven to 330 degrees F.
- Cream together the butter and both sugars. Mix in the egg and vanilla.
- In a microwave safe bowl, melt the dark chocolate chips. With the mixer on low, beat the melted chocolate into the butter/sugar batter until smooth.
- Gradually add in the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt until just combined.
- Chill for at least 30 minutes.
- Roll the dough into large golf sized balls and drop onto a baking sheet. Bake for 16 minutes.
- To assemble the sandwiches, make sure your cookies have completely cooled. Then take one and flip it upside down so that the the flat end is facing up. Put a Peep on top and place in microwave for 6-7 seconds (10 seconds is too long!). Remove from the microwave and use another cookie to smash the marshmallow in between.
What a great idea! You might like our Halloween pumpkin pinata party cake :
http://littlebuttondiaries.com/2013/10/12/halloween-pumpkin-pinata-party-cake/