Taste of Home
Halloween Chocolate Cookie Pops
TOTAL TIME: Prep: 25 min. Bake: 10 min./batch + cooling
YIELD: 2 dozen.
Our children look forward to making these cute cookies each year. They've become experts at making silly faces with little candies.
Ingredients
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1 cup butter, softened
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2 cups sugar
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2 large eggs, room temperature
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3 teaspoons vanilla extract
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3 cups all-purpose flour
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1 cup baking cocoa
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1/2 teaspoon baking powder
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1/2 teaspoon baking soda
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1/2 teaspoon salt
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24 lollipop sticks
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Prepared vanilla frosting
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Food coloring
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Black and yellow decorating gels
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Optional decorations: Candy corn, candy eyeballs, M&M's minis and cinnamon hearts
Directions
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1.
Preheat oven to 350°. In a large bowl, beat butter and sugar until blended. Beat in eggs and vanilla. In a small bowl, whisk flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt; gradually beat into sugar mixture. Shape dough into 1-1/2-in. balls. Place 3 in. apart on greased baking sheets.
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2.
Insert a lollipop stick into each cookie. Flatten with a glass dipped in sugar. Bake 10-12 minutes or until cookies are set. Remove from pans to wire racks to cool completely. Tint frosting; frost cookies. Decorate with gel and optional decorations as desired.
Nutrition Facts
1 cookie pop (calculated without decorations): 207 calories, 9g fat (5g saturated fat), 36mg cholesterol, 151mg sodium, 31g carbohydrate (17g sugars, 1g fiber), 3g protein.
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