These Spiral Slice and Bake Halloween Cookies are the perfect, easy treat for your Halloween celebrations! A delicious cookie filled with your choice of colored sprinkles makes for a fun and festive Halloween treat! Getting ready for Halloween? Try these Pumpkin Popcorn Balls and Black Widow Brownie Bites too!
Halloween Cookies
I’ve got one more Halloween recipe here for you today! Spiral cookies are always a lot of fun and they are super easy to adapt to various holidays and celebrations. All you have to do is change the color of sugar you use! I’ve made rainbow pinwheel cookies and red, white and blue sparkler cookies for the 4th of July and both were huge hits.
I went with orange, purple and black for Halloween and I have to say that I just adore how they turned out! If you can’t find the color of sugar you need, check out my DIY Colored Sugar tutorial for some help.
Now there is really no rhyme or reason to my sugar placement but you an see I did kind of a patchwork quilt look here. As long as you have large sections of color before rolling up the dough, the cookies will look fantastic.
What Ingredients Do I Need
These cookies don’t use a lot of ingredients (6 ingredients total – including the colored sugar!) so it’s important to use the highest quality ingredients you can afford. I used Challenge butter for these cookies. I love the quality and taste – so creamy and delicious!
- butter softened
- sugar
- almond extract or vanilla
- egg
- flour
- colored sugar (I used orange, black and purple)
After sprinkling the sugar in patches, roll up the dough like you would a cinnamon roll.
The dough gets thrown in the fridge for an hour or two…or three days if you run out of time like I did 😉 The cookies get sliced and bake up to this festive awesomeness:
This recipe makes a lot of cookies (three dozen) which makes it perfect for classroom treats or parties.
Almond or Vanilla Extract
You’ll notice that the recipe calls for almond extract. It’s almost magical what it does for these cookies. Vanilla extract will work just as well but if you have almond extract on hand – give it a try. You won’t be disappointed!
Other Halloween Treats
- Spooky Easy Ghost Treats
- Easy Pumpkin Patties
- Caramel Apple Cupcakes
- Pumpkin Popcorn Balls
- Black Widow Brownie Bites
How To Make Halloween Cookies
Halloween Spiral Slice and Bake Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup Challenge butter softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 3/4 tsp almond extract or vanilla
- 1 egg room temperature
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- colored sugar I used orange, black and purple
Instructions
- Cream butter and sugar together.
- Add egg and extract and mix until well combined.
- Stir in flour, mixing until fully incorporated.
- Divide dough in half.
- Cover cutting board with plastic wrap and press out half of dough into an 8x8 square.
- Sprinkle sugars onto the dough in patches.
- Use the plastic wrap to to lift and roll up dough - just like sushi.
- Repeat with second half and refrigerate dough rolls for 1-2 hours or until nice and firm.
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- Line baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Remove plastic wrap from rolls and cut into 1/4 inch slices.
- Place slices about 2 inches apart on cookie sheet.
- Bake for 6-8 minutes or until edges just turn golden. Let cool for 1-2 minutes and remove to wire rack.
Nutrition
Originally published October 18, 2014.
For all dinner recipes, go HERE.
For all dessert recipes, go HERE.
Sign up to get emails when I post new recipes!
For even more great ideas follow me on Facebook – Pinterest – Instagram – Twitter – Bloglovin’.
Have a great day!
Disclosure: I was compensated for this post by Challenge Butter. All opinions are, as always, 100% my own.
Ann says
You are very inventive! I’m already an adult, but I myself am delighted to see these treats for Halloween. I would have thought for a long time to make such a thing with sprinkles! Be sure to take note of this recipe and cook it. Of course, cooking Halloween treats is a matter of creative people, here I can not do without the help of such original culinary blogs as yours. Thank you for the ideas, keep it up!
Trish - Mom On Timeout says
Thanks so much Ann!
Julie says
Just made these- delicious ?, and so cute! One suggestion, how about a quick role in more sugar or Halloween colored cookie decoration to make them even more festive. Thanks for the recipe.
Ivory says
These look amazing. I don’t know how you do it, but you always make my tongue salivate for your yummy posts.