Witch Hat Cookies

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Witch hat cookies are a simple and fun treat that’s perfect for Halloween. The base is a chocolate cookie topped with a creamy homemade buttercream frosting and a Hershey’s kiss.

four chocolate cookies with geen, orange, and purple sprinkles with hershey's kiss on top

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Witch Hat Cookies

Halloween treats are so much fun to make. They’re perfect for Halloween parties, class parties, and just for a special at home treat.

These Halloween witch hat cookies are super simple to make with a rolled chocolate cookie dough that you slice and bake. Then decorate with orange frosting and Halloween sprinkles and top with a Hershey’s kiss.

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Ingredients

For the Cookies :

2 Cups Flour
2 Tbsp Corn Starch
½ tsp Salt
¾ Cup Cocoa Powder
1 Cup Sugar
1 Cup Butter (softened)
1 Egg
2 tsp Vanilla

For the Frosting:

8 Tbsp Butter (softened)
2 Cups Powdered Sugar
1 ½ Tbsp Heavy Cream
½ tsp Vanilla
Orange Gel Food Coloring
60 Hershey’s kisses
sprinkles

Instructions

four photos: mixing dough and adding cocoa, rolled dough wrapped in parchment, knife slicing chilled dough into coins

Whisk together flour, corn starch, cocoa powder, and salt.
With an electric mixer combine butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add in egg and vanilla and continue to mix until well blended.
Gradually add in flour mixture, mixing well after each addition.
Roll dough into a log with a diameter of about 1 ½ inches. Wrap with parchment or wax paper and place in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
Preheat the oven to 350
Carefully slice the dough into ¼- ½ inch slices and place on a baking sheet.
Bake for 8-12 minutes or until set.
Remove from oven and allow to cool on the baking sheet for 2-3 minutes, remove to cooling rack to cool completely.

four photos: sliced baked cookies; dollop of orange frosting on bottom of Hershey's kiss, Hershey's kiss on top of chocolate cookie; orange frosting around Hershey's kiss and sprinkles

To make the frosting:

In the bowl of an electric mixer mix butter until light and fluffy. Add in powdered sugar a little at a time mixing between each addition. Add in cream vanilla, and orange food coloring and mix thoroughly. Add additional food coloring if needed to achieve desired flavor.
Using a piping bag pipe a small dot of frosting on the bottom of an unwrapped Hershey’s kiss. Place it in the center of a cookie. Pipe frosting around the edge of the Hershey’s Kiss and sprinkle with sprinkles.
Repeat until all cookies are decorated.
Store in an airtight container until ready to serve.

chocolate cookies with Hershey kisses and Halloween sprinkles

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