Pillsbury Halloween Cookies are an easy way to dress up store bought cookie dough and an adorable addition to your next Halloween gathering!
It feels like Halloween is the kickoff to an incredibly busy time of year. Everything snowballs from here! That’s why recipes like this are so great.
You do not have to be a baker to pull this recipe off. Just take simple, pre-made dough and you come out with a dessert that is tasty, fast and so cute! It is probably the easiest way to dress up an already simple dessert and it’s perfect for any Halloween party.
What’s not to love about a melty-chocolate chip cookie combined with the sweet taste of a classic sugar cookie? Both are simple and delicious alone but the pairing of the two is perfection.
The best part is it’s almost impossible to get it wrong. Just stack your ingredients, throw them in the oven, set your timer, and get ready for rave reviews!
Why Make This Recipe?
- Fast: The most time-consuming part of this recipe is the baking time. You can spend that time sitting back and enjoying the beautiful, fresh-baked cookie smell that is filling your home–or cleaning or finishing getting ready for a party. Whatever!
- Easy: Putting together a simple Halloween dessert does not get any easier. No mixing, minimal measuring, just put it together!
- Adorable: Pillsbury Halloween Cookies with those jack-o-lantern pumpkins are so cute! It’s a perfect way to add some Halloween spirit to your cookies.
What Do I Need to Make This Recipe?
Ingredients
Here is a visual overview of the ingredients in the recipe. Scroll down to the recipe at the bottom for quantities.
- Cookie Dough: Two ingredients. That’s it. You can find Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough and Pillsbury Sugar Dough cookies in most grocery stores. Pillsbury Halloween Cookies comes with lots of fun designs like ghosts, cats or pumpkins. Choose your favorite!
If you want to get really fancy you could make your own chocolate chip cookie dough but the goal of this recipe is keeping things simple. It’s OK to save time and use the premade dough.
Tools
- Cookie Sheet: You can use any cookie sheet for this recipe. Feel free to cover your cookie sheet with some parchment paper for easy cleanup.
How to Make This Recipe?
Step 1: Preheat your Oven
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
Step 2: Prepare your Dough
Portion the chocolate chip cookie dough out into 20 different portions of 2 tablespoons each.
Roll the dough into a ball shape between your palms. Place each dough ball on an ungreased cookie sheet, gently pressing the ball to slightly flatten the top. You will probably need to use 2 cookie sheets.
On top of each chocolate chip cookie dough ball, place 1 uncooked Pillsbury Pumpkin Shape Sugar Cookie.
Step 3: Bake your Cookies
Bake for 10-11 minutes or until the edges of the chocolate chip cookies are set. Allow the cookies to rest on the cookie sheet for 5 minutes before removing them to a cooling rack.
Enjoy! Happy Halloween! Be sure to make the Pillsbury Christmas Cookies when they roll around!
Expert Tips
- I’ve seen some recipes for these cookies use just 16 ounces of chocolate chip cookie dough for 20 cookies. I prefer to use much more dough to give yourself a more substantial cookie. Feel free to play around with your dough-to-dough ratios.
- Portioning your chocolate chip cookie dough can be difficult. That’s why I recommend portioning out the dough first before adding your sugar cookie dough on top. If you are using a tube of dough try cutting it in half and then cutting each half in half and continuing in that way for even portions.
- It’s important to flatten your chocolate chip cookie dough slightly before adding the sugar cookie dough on top. It would be a shame if that cute design slid off the top during baking!
- The sugar cookies usually come in pre-sliced sections. As you pull them apart, you may notice one side is clearer than the other. Make sure the side with any streaks or smudges to the design goes on the bottom and the nicer design is on the top.
Recipe FAQs
You can use any chocolate chip cookie dough you like for this recipe. The Pillsbury Halloween Cookie dough is what makes this recipe fun because of the cute design it lends to the finished product.
You should not need to grease your cookie sheet for this recipe, especially if you use parchment paper over your cookie sheet. If you notice your cookies starting to stick, you can try spraying a light layer of grease on your sheet.
Did you like this Pillsbury Halloween Cookies recipe? If so, make sure to check out these other recipes I picked out just for you:
- Mummy Brownies
- Fast and Easy Maple Cookies
- Hot Buttered Rum Cookies
- Italian Pistachio Cookie Recipe
- Melted Snowman Cookies
Pillsbury Halloween Cookies
Equipment
- Cookie Sheet
Ingredients
- 1 36 oz Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough
- 1 package Pillsbury Pumpkin Shape Sugar Cookie Dough
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Portion the chocolate chip cookie dough out into 20 different portions of 2 tablespoons each.
- Roll the dough into a ball shape between your palms. Place each dough ball on an ungreased cookie sheet, gently pressing the ball to slightly flatten the top. You will probably need to use 2 cookie sheets.
- On top of each chocolate chip cookie dough ball, place 1 uncooked Pillsbury Pumpkin Shape Sugar Cookie.
- Bake for 10-11 minutes or until the edges of the chocolate chip cookies are set. Allow the cookies to rest on the cookie sheet for 5 minutes before removing them to a cooling rack.
- Enjoy! Happy Halloween!
Notes
- Cookie Dough: Two ingredients. That’s it. You can find Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough and Pillsbury Sugar Dough cookies in most grocery stores. Pillsbury Halloween Cookies comes with lots of fun designs like ghosts, cats or pumpkins. Choose your favorite!
- I’ve seen some recipes for these cookies use just 16 ounces of chocolate chip cookie dough for 20 cookies. I prefer to use much more dough to give yourself a more substantial cookie. Feel free to play around with your dough-to-dough ratios.
- Portioning your chocolate chip cookie dough can be difficult. That’s why I recommend portioning out the dough first before adding your sugar cookie dough on top. If you are using a tube of dough try cutting it in half and then cutting each half in half and continuing in that way for even portions.
- It’s important to flatten your chocolate chip cookie dough slightly before adding the sugar cookie dough on top. It would be a shame if that cute design slid off the top during baking!
- The sugar cookies usually come in pre-sliced sections. As you pull them apart, you may notice one side is clearer than the other. Make sure the side with any streaks or smudges to the design goes on the bottom and the nicer design is on the top.
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