These Creepy Chocolate Chip Eyeball Cookies are Perfect for Halloween treats. They’re easy and fun to make for parties or snack time. With chocolate chip cookies filled with a marshmallow center, the kids will love them!
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Halloween Eyeball Cookies
These Easy Halloween Eyeball Cookies are the perfect Halloween treat for the kids. I can’t wait to share this recipe with you. Let me tell you, I have had plenty of experience creating this fun Halloween dessert. I had many recipe tests on this one, and wouldn’t you know, I ended up going with my first version. Isn’t that always the case? I love how each eyeball expression changes from one cookie to the next, and you’ll love how easy these are to make.
If you are looking for fun Halloween Snacks to make for the kids, check out Twelve Halloween Cookies Ideas, Candy Corn Fruit Parfaits, and Halloween Dirt Cups.
What You’ll Love About this Recipe
So Easy: This recipe is made with refrigerated cookie dough making this a shortcut Halloween cookie to make
Festive: This recipe is just spooky and creepy enough to qualify it as a Halloween recipe, but fun enough to be a lighthearted kid’s snack
Budget Friendly: With easy-to-find ingredients, you won’t be heading all over town trying to find something fancy for this recipe
Ingredients
You’ll Only need a few ingredients for this recipe unless you make homemade chocolate chip cookies which is totally fine to do, but you might need to adjust the baking time to suit your recipe.
- Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough – I used Pillsbury Cookie Dough. It says right on the package that it’s safe to eat raw. I’ve never noticed that before!
- Marshmallows – Just your regular sized marshmallows are perfect for this recipe. I would not use jumbo, or mini marshmallows for this cookie recipe.
- Halloween Candy Eyeball Cupcake Toppers – I would get these exact sprinkles unless you can find some similar candy eyes at your local grocery store. I ordered mine on Amazon a year ago and I use them all of the time.
Equipment Needed
Baking Pan – or as I like to call it a Cookie Sheet
Parchment Paper – This is so important when baking these cookies. The marshmallow will stick to a baking pan, and the cookies will turn darker brown on the bottom without parchment paper.
How to Make Eyeball Cookies
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper
Cut off a cookie dough section and roll it into a ball about one inch wide.
Place that cookie ball onto the parchment paper and cut it down the middle
Spread the two halves a little bit apart
Take a marshmallow and cut the length of it in half so it is a little bit shorter.
Place the half marshmallow piece in between the two cookie dough halves.
Form a circle around the marshmallow with the cookie dough and press the ends together to seal the edges.
Partially bake the cookies. Bake them for about 8 minutes.
Take them out and place the candy eyes onto the marshmallow center.
Bake for an additional 3-4 minutes.
Take them out and let them cool slightly before transferring them. The middle will be melted marshmallows, so you want to let them harden a bit before moving them.
Pro Tips
I tested this recipe out a lot. Here’s what I learned
You don’t want to add the eye sprinkles at the beginning. They will melt into the marshmallow and literally disappear
I tried to shape the cookies to look like an eye – wider in the center, coming to points at the edges. I’m not sure if it made a difference. Once the cookies start to bake, the shape has a mind of its’ own.
Variations
If you want to add a little more spooky quality, try making bloodshot eyes with an edible red marker.
Yes. Adding the candy eye at the beginning of the baking process will melt into the marshmallow. You don’t want it to dissolve fully, but baking it for a few minutes will allow it to sink into the marshmallow, creating that spooky eye.
I have found that parchment paper prevents over-browning of the cookie bottom.
I would not recommend refrigerating these cookies. The condensation from the fridge will cause the candy eye to take on moisture and the colors will blend together. The marshmallow will also harden too much.
Make-Ahead and Storage
Store these cookies covered at room temperature for a few days.
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Serving Size
This recipe should make around 30 cookies.
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Equipment
- baking pan lined with parchment paper
Ingredients
- 30 oz. chocolate chip cookie dough I used a large tube of Pillsbury refrigerated cookie dough
- 15 marshmallows
- 30 candy eyeballs Halloween
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper
- Cut off a cookie dough section and roll it into a ball about one inch wide.
- Place that cookie ball onto the parchment paper and cut it down the middle
- Spread the two halves a little bit apart
- Take a marshmallow and cut the length of it in half so it is a little bit shorter.
- Place the half marshmallow piece in between the two cookie dough halves.
- Form a circle around the marshmallow with the cookie dough and press the ends together to seal the edges.
- Partially bake the cookies. Bake them for about 8 minutes.
- Take them out and place the candy eyes onto the center of the marshmallow center.
- Bake for an additional 3-4 minutes.
- Take them out and let them cool slightly before transferring them. The middle will be melted marshmallows, so you want to let them harden a bit before moving them.
