Halloween Cookie Cake Recipe
Haunted Tree Halloween Cookie Cake Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 C flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp kosher salt
- ¾ C unsalted sweet cream butter
- ¾ C sugar
- ¾ C light brown sugar
- 1 large egg
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 C Halloween sprinkles reserve ½ cup for topping
Vanilla Frosting
- 1 C unsalted sweet cream butter softened
- 2 ½ C powdered sugar
- Black gel food coloring
- Orange gel food coloring
- 1 disposable piping bag with star tip
- 1 disposable piping bag with number 4 tip
- 1 disposable piping bag with number 2 tip
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 3 tbsp heavy whipping cream
Instructions
Cookie Cake Directions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and spray a 9in cast iron with baking spray
- Use an electric mixer to cream butter, sugar, and brown sugar together in a bowl.
- Continue to beat with the electric mixer while adding in the egg and vanilla.
- Set out a second bowl to sift the flour, baking soda, and salt together.
- Slowly add ⅓ of the flour mixture at a time to the wet ingredients. Beat to mix well.
- Repeat until all of the dry ingredients have been blended with the wet ingredients.
- Add 1 ½ cups of the sprinkles to the cookie dough.
- Transfer the cookie dough to the prepared skillet.
- Press the top of the cookie dough into the skillet.
- Top the cookie dough with the remaining ½ cup of the sprinkles.
- Spread the sprinkles evenly on the top of the unbaked cookie.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 35-45 minutes.
- Set aside to cool completely.
Frosting Directions
- Using a standing mixer, beat the butter, powdered sugar, vanilla, and heavy whipping cream together, until combined and smooth but with stiff peaks
- Scoop about 1 C of frosting into a small bowl and mix in about 4 drops of the orange food
- coloring
- Beat in a few drops of the black gel food coloring and mix until combined
- Beat in a few more drops of the black gel food coloring until you get the shade that you want
- Scoop about ½ C of the frosting between the piping bags with the number 2 and 4 tip
- Scoop the orange frosting onto 1 side of the star tip piping bag
- Scoop the rest of the black frosting onto the other side of the same piping bag
- Set aside
Decorating Directions
- Using the number 4 tip piping bag, start by piping out a crooked hill for the tree to sit on
- Pipe the base of the tree and then start piping out branches for the tree. Make sure to curl the ends to make the branches look creepy.
- Using the number 2 tip piping bag, pipe of little bats around the tree
- Using the star tip, pipe dollops of the orange and black frosting around the edge
- Allow the frosting to harden slightly before enjoying it!
*Nutritional information is a calculated guesstimate. Please note that this can change with different brands and modifications you may make to the recipe. For the most accurate information, use a nutritional calculator with the exact brands and measurements you're using with each recipe.
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