Halloween Cookies with Colorful Candy Pieces and a Gift Jar Idea

Halloween Cookies with colorful candy pieces make a great gift in a mason jar!

Halloween Cookies

I’m sharing with you today the recipe for Halloween Cookies with Colorful Candy Pieces and a fun idea to give the dry ingredients as a gift to someone in a mason jar.

A few weeks ago, a friend of mine gave me a cute gift…all the dry ingredients needed to make cookies, packaged in a jar with the baking instructions attached.  All I had to do was add the liquid ingredients.  The jar was so cute, it sat on my counter for a few weeks until we started craving something sweet a few days ago.

I love the idea of giving homemade gifts to family and friends.  And receiving something like these Halloween Cookies in a mason jar was really thoughtful.  Everything was ready for me to easily put together and have cookies on our table in under 30 minutes.

How to Make Halloween Cookies

INGREDIENTS:

• 1/4 cup butter
• 1/4 cup oil
• 1/2 cup brown sugar; packed
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 1/2 tsp. vanilla
• 1 egg
• 1 1/2 cups flour
• 1/2 tsp. baking powder
• 1/2 tsp. baking soda
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 2/3 cup Reese Pieces
• 2/3 cup milk chocolate chips

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Preheat oven to 350°. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
2. Add the butter, oil and both sugars to a medium mixing bowl. With an electric mixer, cream together until smooth and creamy.
3. Add the egg and beat until incorporated. Then add the vanilla.
4. Combine the flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt together in a bowl.
5. Add half of the dry ingredients to the creamed mixture and stir until just combined. Add the remaining half and stir until all of the ingredients are wet.
6. Add the chocolate chips and Reeses Pieces and combine. Cover and chill dough for 15 minutes.
7. Once chilled, remove from refrigerator. Using a cookie scoop, add the cookie dough on the lined cookie sheet, 2 inches apart.
8. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes (depending on oven temperatures). Remove from oven and allow the cookies to cool on the pan for 2-3 minutes.
9. Transfer the cookies to a wire rack to completely cool before serving.

How to Give Halloween Cookies as a Gift

Here’s the jar with the dry ingredients.  So cute, right?  They’re easy to put together too.  Just start layering the dry ingredients into the jar and top it off with the Reese’s Pieces Candies.

Print out the recipe card below or copy the recipe onto a fun colorful paper.  Tie the recipe onto the mason jar with twine and you have a really cute gift for a friend, a teacher or someone who helped you recently!

Printable Halloween Gift Tags

I have cute Halloween Gift Tags available for you to use as well.  These will really make the kid’s packages look great!  There are two different sets to choose from, Classic Halloween Tags and Cute Monster Halloween Tags.

Helpful Kitchen Tools

• Kitchen Aid Mixer
• Pyrex Measuring Cups
• Mason Jars
• Reeese’s Pieces
• Cookie Scoop

Thanks Jani for a great gift, delicious cookies and a fun blog post!

Print

Halloween Cookies

Prep Time

15 mins

Cook Time

12 mins

Total Time

27 mins

 

A delicious colorful cookie that your family is going to love this Halloween with instructions to make a cookie gift jar for teachers, family and friends.

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Keyword: Candy Pieces, Cookies, Halloween

Ingredients

• 1/4 cup butter
• 1/4 cup oil
• 1/2 cup brown sugar; packed
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 1/2 tsp. vanilla
• 1 egg
• 1 1/2 cups flour
• 1/2 tsp. baking powder
• 1/2 tsp. baking soda
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 2/3 cup Reese Pieces
• 2/3 cup milk chocolate chips

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350°. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper and set aside.

2. Add the butter, oil and both sugars to a medium mixing bowl. With an electric mixer, cream together until smooth and creamy.

3. Add the egg and beat until incorporated. Then add the vanilla.
4. Combine the flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt together in a bowl.
5. Add half of the dry ingredients to the creamed mixture and stir until just combined. Add the remaining half and stir until all of the ingredients are wet.
6. Add the chocolate chips and Reeses Pieces and combine. Cover and chill dough for 15 minutes.
7. Once chilled, remove from refrigerator. Using a cookie scoop, add the cookie dough on the lined cookie sheet, 2 inches apart.
8. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes (depending on oven temperatures). Remove from oven and allow the cookies to cool on the pan for 2-3 minutes.
9. Transfer the cookies to a wire rack to completely cool before serving.

Halloween Gift Tags