Embark on a spooky baking adventure with our "Haunted House Chocolate Cookies" recipe. These delectable treats are not just a feast for the taste buds, but also a visual masterpiece that will add a touch of eerie charm to your Halloween festivities. With a combination of rich chocolate flavors and a ghostly appearance, these cookies are sure to cast a spell on your taste buds and leave your guests in awe. Get ready to whip up a batch of these hauntingly delicious cookies that will make your Halloween party a memorable one.
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HAUNTED-HOUSE CHOCOLATE COOKIES
These cookies are used to make our Haunted-House Cake. For cookie dimensions: Photocopy the haunted-house template at 125 percent. Photocopy the spooky tree template at 100 percent. Photocopy the door, tombstone, and triangle stand templates at 100 percent.
Provided by Martha Stewart
Categories Food & Cooking Dessert & Treats Recipes Cookie Recipes
Yield Makes 1 haunted house, 2 doors, 1 spooky tree, 2 triangle stands, and assorted tombstones
Number Of Ingredients 17
Steps:
- Make the cookies: Sift together flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, and salt into a large bowl. With an electric mixer on medium-high speed, beat butter and sugar until pale and fluffy, 3 to 4 minutes. Beat in whole egg, yolk, and vanilla. Reduce speed to low, and add flour mixture in three additions. Shape dough into 2 disks, wrap each in plastic, and refrigerate until cold and firm, about 2 hours (or up to 1 day).
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Remove 1 disk of dough from refrigerator, and let stand until room temperature. Lightly dust two large sheets of parchment with cocoa powder, and roll out disk of dough between sheets to a 1/4-inch thickness. Transfer to a baking sheet, and freeze until very firm, about 15 minutes. Remove top parchment sheet, and place haunted-house template on dough. Using a craft knife, cut out house. Transfer to a parchment-lined baking sheet, and freeze until firm, about 15 minutes. Repeat with remaining dough and templates.
- Bake, rotating sheets halfway through, until firm, 10 to 12 minutes. Transfer parchment with cookies to wire racks, and let cool completely.
- Decorate the cookies: Place a large sheet of parchment on a baking sheet, and lightly butter parchment. Transfer cookie house and doors to parchment.
- For the windows, prepare an ice-water bath. Combine 1 cup water and 1 cup sugar in a medium saucepan over medium-high heat. Cook, stirring occasionally, until sugar dissolves. Continue to cook, washing down sides of pan with a wet pastry brush, until syrup comes to a boil. Boil, swirling pan occasionally, until syrup turns medium amber. Immediately remove from heat, and place pan in ice bath. Working quickly, carefully pour some caramel into haunted-house windows, doorway, and door windows, filling each flush with top of cookie. Let stand until cool and hardened.
- For the roof, fill a pastry bag fitted with a 1/4-inch plain tip (#802) with melted bittersweet chocolate. Starting at base of roof, pipe 1 line of chocolate along entire edge, then press shelled sunflower seeds into chocolate in a straight row, pointed edges down. Repeat with chocolate and remaining seeds, "tiling" both roofs, and slightly overlapping rows of seeds.
- Decorate the windows and doors: Cut remaining licorice laces to match dimensions of windows. Halve each lace lengthwise. Pipe thin lines of melted chocolate along window panes. Press licorice into chocolate. Pipe a thin line of chocolate over doorway, and press 4 shelled sunflower seeds into chocolate, centering the unshelled seed in middle. Let set.
- Make the chimney and spires: Cut 1 licorice lace diagonally into 1-inch pieces. Fill a pastry bag fitted with a fine plain tip (#1) with royal icing. Carefully flip house over. Make a vertical 1/2-inch cut in bottom half of licorice twist, then cut off 1 flap; insert a piece of licorice lace into top hole of licorice twist. Pipe a 1/2-inch-long vertical line of icing just below edge of top roof, and press flat end of licorice twist against house into icing. Pipe a horizontal line of icing just below top edge of lower roof. Press 1 end of each halved licorice lace into icing to form a row of spires. Let stand until set, about 10 minutes.
- Assemble the cookie house: Using a small offset spatula, spread a thick line of royal icing along the long, straight edge of haunted-house triangle stand. Gently press triangle against back of haunted-house cookie on left-hand side, supporting cookie between two large cans. Repeat with second triangle on right-hand side, and let stand until icing is set, about 30 minutes. Cookie house will keep at room temperature up to 1 week.
- Make the windows and doors: Cut remaining licorice laces to match dimensions of windows. Halve each lace lengthwise. Pipe thin lines of chocolate along window panes. Press licorice into chocolate. Pipe a thin line of chocolate over doorway, and press 4 shelled sunflower seeds into chocolate, centering the unshelled seed in middle. Let stand until set.
- Using a small offset spatula, spread a thick line of royal icing along long, straight edge of haunted-house triangle stand. Gently press triangle against back of haunted-house cookie on left-hand side, supporting cookie between 2 large cans. Repeat with second triangle on right-hand side, and let stand until icing is set, about 30 minutes. (Cookie will keep at room temperature for up to 1 week.)
OUTRAGEOUS CHOCOLATE COOKIES
Don't bake these rich double-chocolate cookies to a crisp; they are meant to be soft and chewy.
Provided by Martha Stewart
Categories Food & Cooking Dessert & Treats Recipes Cookie Recipes
Time 45m
Yield Makes 2 dozen
Number Of Ingredients 9
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Heat chopped chocolate and butter in a microwave-safe bowl in 20-second increments, stirring between each, until almost melted; do not overheat. In another bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt.
- In a mixing bowl, beat eggs, brown sugar, and vanilla on high speed until light and fluffy. Reduce speed to low; beat in melted chocolate. Mix in flour mixture until just combined. Stir in chocolate chunks.
- Drop heaping tablespoons of dough 2 to 3 inches apart onto baking sheets. Bake, rotating sheets halfway through, until cookies are shiny and crackly yet soft in centers, 12 to 15 minutes. Cool on baking sheets 10 minutes; transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
TOLL HOUSE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES
In the 1930s, Ruth Wakefield, the inventor of the chocolate chip cookie, ran the Toll House Inn, a popular restaurant in eastern Massachusetts, with her husband. Using an ice pick, Wakefield broke a semisweet chocolate bar into little bits, mixed them into brown-sugar dough, and the chocolate chip cookie was born. In 1939, she sold Nestlé the rights to reproduce her recipe on its packages (reportedly for only $1) and was hired to write recipes for the company, which supposedly supplied her with free chocolate for life. This recipe is very close to Mrs. Wakefield's original (hers called for a teaspoon of hot water and 1/2-teaspoon-sized cookies), and the one you'll still find on the back of every yellow bag of Nestlé chocolate chips.
Provided by The New York Times
Categories cookies and bars, dessert
Time 30m
Yield 5 dozen
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- Heat oven to 375. Combine flour, baking soda and salt in small bowl. Beat butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar and vanilla extract in large mixing bowl until creamy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Gradually beat in flour mixture. Stir in chocolate chips and nuts, if using. Drop by rounded tablespoon onto ungreased baking sheets.
- Bake for 9 to 11 minutes or until golden brown. Cool on baking sheets for 2 minutes; remove to wire racks to cool completely.
Nutrition Facts : @context http, Calories 94, UnsaturatedFat 2 grams, Carbohydrate 12 grams, Fat 5 grams, Fiber 0 grams, Protein 1 gram, SaturatedFat 3 grams, Sodium 49 milligrams, Sugar 8 grams, TransFat 0 grams
ORIGINAL NESTLE® TOLL HOUSE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES
This famous classic American cookie is a treat no matter what the age or occasion. Enjoy it with a glass of cold milk.
Provided by Nestle Toll House
Categories Trusted Brands: Recipes and Tips Nestle® Toll House®
Time 39m
Yield 60
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
- Combine flour, baking soda and salt in small bowl. Beat butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar and vanilla extract in large mixer bowl until creamy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Gradually beat in flour mixture. Stir in morsels and nuts. Drop by rounded tablespoon onto ungreased baking sheets.
- Bake for 9 to 11 minutes or until golden brown. Cool on baking sheets for 2 minutes; remove to wire racks to cool completely.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 108.3 calories, Carbohydrate 12.7 g, Cholesterol 14.3 mg, Fat 6.2 g, Fiber 0.7 g, Protein 1.4 g, SaturatedFat 3.1 g, Sodium 84.8 mg, Sugar 8.5 g
BETTER THAN NESTLE TOLL HOUSE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES!
I found this recipe among my grandmother's many, many cookie recipes and with a couple of minor changes, everyone says these are much better than the ones I usually make (those being the chocolate chip cookies straight off the back of the Nestle Tollhouse Chocolate Chip bag!) You'll absolutely love them!
Provided by Jen O.
Categories Dessert
Time 28m
Yield 20 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 11
Steps:
- With electric mixer, blend the butter with both sugars until fluffy.
- Mix in the egg and the vanilla extract.
- Add dry ingredients to mixture- blend well.
- Stir in chocolate chips.
- With your hands, form 1 1/2" to 2" balls and place widely apart on greased cookie sheets (I sprayed my cookie sheets with PAM- the kind with flour in it for baking).
- Bake at 375 degrees for 8-10 minutes.
- Makes approximately 20 cookies.
- Enjoy!
TOLL HOUSE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES (CA 1948)
This is from the re-print of the Toll House 1948 cookbook, originally called Chocolate Crunch Cookies. Ruth Graves Wakefield had some wonderful recipes. This is the latest in my search for her original recipe that was the first chocolate chip cookie.
Provided by Countrywife
Categories Dessert
Time 20m
Yield 100 cookies
Number Of Ingredients 11
Steps:
- Cream butter.
- Add sugars.
- Add eggs.
- Sift flour and salt.
- Dissolve soda in water and add alternately with sifted flour mixture to butter and sugars.
- Add nuts and chocolate morsels.
- Stir in vanilla.
- Drop by half-teaspoonfuls onto lightly greased cookie sheet.
- Bake 10-12 minutes at 375°F.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 65.8, Fat 3.5, SaturatedFat 1.8, Cholesterol 8.7, Sodium 63.2, Carbohydrate 7.9, Fiber 0.4, Sugar 5, Protein 0.8
Tips:
- Use high-quality chocolate. This will make a big difference in the flavor of the cookies.
- Don't overmix the dough. Overmixed dough will make tough cookies.
- Chill the dough before baking. This will help the cookies hold their shape and prevent them from spreading too much.
- Bake the cookies until they are just set. Overbaked cookies will be dry and crumbly.
- Let the cookies cool completely before decorating them. This will help the frosting set properly.
Conclusion:
These haunted house chocolate cookies are a fun and easy treat to make for Halloween. They are perfect for parties or as a spooky snack. With a few simple tips, you can make delicious and impressive haunted house chocolate cookies that will be a hit with everyone who tries them.
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