Get festive this Halloween with these scrumptious Chocolate Mummy Cookies! Made more healthy with zero butter, oil or refined sugar and is the proper spooky deal with your children will love!

Halloween is correct across the nook and these cute chocolate mummy cookies are positive to be successful along with your children! Not solely are the cookies tremendous cute with these googly eyes and white chocolate bandages, however the mixture of chocolate and peanut butter in these fudgy cookies makes them such a winner! Excellent for Halloween events served with my Frankenstein rice krispie treats and this Halloween charcuterie board!

Why You may Love these Cookies

• Two phrases: TRIPLE CHOCOLATE 🙌🏻
• Made multi functional bowl for straightforward clean-up.
• These Halloween treats are gluten-free and tremendous easy to make.
• Festive and enjoyable dessert to make your children will love!

Elements You may Want

• Almond flour – this can be a tasty gluten-free/low carb flour that has nice taste and wholesome fat, simply ensure to make use of almond flour and never almond meal. If you do not have almond flour, some other gluten-free flour mix will work and even common all-purpose flour
• Unsweetened cocoa powder – add the chocolate to those cookies
• Baking soda – this acts as a leavening agent to assist these cookies bake up properly and make them chewy
• Peanut butter – I used creamy pure peanut butter with none added sugar, however you can use almond butter or some other nut butter should you want and SunButter is a good choice if in case you have any nut allergic reactions
• eggs – acts as a binding ingredient and offers the cookies construction and peak
• Coconut sugar – naturally sweetens these cookies with out utilizing any refined sugar, however it’s also possible to use maple syrup or honey
• Chocolate chips – I used these Lily’s chocolate chips that are sweetened with stevia making the sugar content material actually low and giving these cookies much more chocolate taste!
• Vanilla extract + salt – boosts of taste!
• Spooky additions – you will want white chocolate chips (once more I used Lily’s chocolate chips which can be sweetened with stevia) to drizzle on the “bandages” together with enjoyable sweet eyeballs which you could find at most grocery shops, craft shops or proper on Amazon

The way to Make Chocolate Mummy Cookies

This explicit chocolate mummy cookie recipe makes about 18 common sized cookies or I used a medium-sized cookie scoop to ensure they have been all even in dimension. Here is how one can make them:

1. Preheat oven and blend elements. Preheat oven to 375 levels and line a baking sheet with parchment paper or aluminum foil. In a big bowl, combine collectively the peanut butter, eggs and vanilla till all mixed. Subsequent add within the almond flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, coconut sugar and salt, stir the combination till easy, then fold within the chocolate chips. You can additionally use a stand mixer or an electrical mixer for this, however why soiled additional dishes!
2. Assemble cookies. Utilizing a medium-sized cookie scoop, drop tablespoonfuls of cookie dough onto a ready baking sheet and flatten the tops a bit with the again finish of a spatula. It is best to get about 18 cookies.
3. BAKE! Bake the cookies at 375 levels for 12 to fifteen minutes till the cookies are set and the sides begin to brown, then let the cookies cool on the baking tray for about 10 minutes earlier than transferring them to a wire rack. We would like the cookies to chill utterly earlier than adorning.
4. adorn. Add white chocolate chips (or white sweet melts) in a small microwave-safe bowl and microwave in 30 second intervals, mixing every time, till melted. Lower a small slit on the tip of a dishevelled plastic or piping bag and punctiliously pour within the melted white chocolate chips. Slowly pipe the chocolate onto the cookies to make them seem like “mummy bandages” after which use the melted chocolate to connect the sweet eyes on.

Ideas for Making Chocolate Mummy Cookies

• You possibly can simply swap out the peanut butter for any sort of nut butter! Another nice choices are almond butter, cashew butter and even sunflower seed butter if in case you have a nut allergy.
• Soften the chocolate chips in 15 to 30 second intervals, ensuring to stir nicely every time, till the chocolate is easy. You need to watch out to not overheat the chocolate as it could begin to clump. If this occurs, simply add a teaspoon of sizzling water to the clumped chocolate (or extra if wanted) and stir vigorously till easy.
• The melted white chocolate isn’t solely used to create the “bandages” on the mummies, however acts as a glue to stay on the sweet eyeballs. You can additionally use cream cheese, buttercream or white frosting to make the bandages.
• I wish to pipe the melted chocolate onto the cookies whereas they’re on a wire rack which catches any extra chocolate that drips off the perimeters. Then I simply switch the cookies to some parchment paper to let the chocolate set.

Prepping and Storage

To-Retailer: These cute chocolate mummy cookies could be saved in a sealed, hermetic container for as much as 1 week within the fridge.

To Freeze: These cookies will also be frozen for as much as 3 months in a sealed, hermetic container or you may individually retailer them in plastic wrap and take them out individually to thaw.

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