Why serve your guests boring Halloween candy, when you can scare them BOO-TIFUL cookies and brownies! I love adding sugar cookies to my dessert menus as they can be both decorative and delicious. While you can save time by buying them from any bakery or through Etsy, I recommend making them yourself. I placed these sugar cookies on top of homemade brownies to create a FRIGHTFUL GRAVEYARD filled with coffins, tombstones and skeletons. Follow my tips and you will have no fear in making this BOO-TIFUL cemetery!
Baked by Archana Tips
- Allow refrigerated items to warm to room temperature (butter, milk, eggs)
- Bake and assemble over two – three days! This dessert involves a lot of components: cookies, brownies, glazing icing, vanilla and chocolate buttercream
- Roll cookie dough and then refrigerate before stamping with cookie cutters
- It’s a lot easier to roll dough when it’s at room temperature
- Line the brownie and cookie pans with parchment paper
- Make sure to spread the brownie mixture evenly around the edges of the pan (otherwise you will end up with fudgy, soft brownies on the inside and crispy, crunchy along the edge of the pan)
- You only need a little bit of green frosting, so I suggest starting with Toba Garrett’s vanilla buttercream and then removing a small portion and coloring it green and add the chocolate ganache to make the chocolate buttercream
Mini Chocolate Chip Sugar Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter
- 1/3 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup light-brown sugar
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 large egg
- 2 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup semisweet chocolate mini chips
Instructions
- Using a Kitchen-Aid Stand Mixer, cream the butter, sugars and salt until creamy (about 3 minutes with an electric mixer on medium speed)
- Add vanilla and egg and beat well
- Gradually add the flour and beat just until combined
- Stir in the chips
- Roll the dough and then refrigerate for 30 minutes
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- Lightly flour the work surface and rolling pin and roll dough to 1/4″ thickness
- Cut into desired shapes and place on parchment parchment or silicone-lined baking sheets
- Bake 8-10 min or till golden brown
- Cool on sheet for 5 min. and then transfer to wire rack
If you prefer a more cake-like brownie, you can use Thomas’s cake-like brownie recipe.
Fudgy Brownies Thomas Joseph (found on marthastewart.com)
Ingredients
- Ingredients
- 2 sticks unsalted butter cut into large pieces
- 12 ounces bittersweet chocolate chopped
- 3 cups sugar
- 6 large eggs
- 1/2 cup unsweetened Dutch-process cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon coarse salt
- 1 1/4 cup flour
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- Line a 10×15 baking pan with parchment paper, leaving a slight overhang on all sides
- Melt butter and chocolate in a heatproof bowl set over a pot of simmering water, stirring until smooth
- Remove from heat, and whisk in sugar
- Whisk in eggs, one at a time, until combined
- Whisk in cocoa and salt
- Fold in flour until combined
- Pour batter into pan and spread batter along edges
- Bake until set and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out with moist crumbs, 35 to 40 minutes
- Let cool slightly in pan, about 15 minutes
- Lift brownies from pan using parchment
- Remove parchment and transfer to a wire rack
- Let cool completely
- If you prefer a more cake-like brownie, you can use Thomas’s cake-like brownie recipe.
Assemble the Graveyard
- Decorate the sugar cookies with glaze icing
- Frost the brownies with a thin layer of chocolate buttercream
- Use the buttercream to stick a tombstone cookie to the top of the brownie and place the tombstones directly on the brownie
- Pipe green grass using a Wilton 233 tip
- Finish with pumpkin, bat and skeleton candies
Recipes From This Post:
Glaze Icing: JBS Box (I needed to triple the recipe for my cookies)
Vanilla Buttercream Frosting: Toba Garrett
Chocolate Buttercream Frosting: Toba Garrett
On my tombstone it will say: ‘I tried everything – nothing was easy.
Rita Rudner
These are really cool! My niece would love this because her favorite occasion was Halloween and she loves to dress up a lot. These are great ideas and seemingly easy to prepare. I would love to try this!
BROWNIES!!! So yummmy recipe thank you so much for sharing with us. I gonna print this recipe now.
I don’t know what it is about Halloween, but it’s the time of year that makes me want to bake all the spooky treats! Love these!
I love all these treats especially the graveyard brownies! You made me excited for Halloween.
I love these cute recipe ideas. I’ll definitely try these cookies and brownies. I’m sure Halloween this year will once again be celebrated in the safety of our homes, but that doesn’t mean that it has to be boring.
These are cool and cute ideas, the candy tackle box looks interesting. Would be awesome for Halloween!
Fransic – https://www.querianson.com/
This is perfect for the upcoming Halloween! Time flies so fast! OMG!
Nnniiiccceeeee…I love their guitar-like and halloween-like shape! I think I should make myself a plate of them!
An excellent Graveyard theme ! Feels like Halloween has arrived early! I think I will try to make them too.
Glad I came over this post as early as now. I will definitely take note of this so my sister can do this for the coming Halloween.
Those cookies and brownies are looking quite delicious! Halloween is nearly there and I love making spooky treats.