Halloween Monster Cookies

These Halloween Monster Cookies are thick, soft brown sugar cookies made with orange, purple, and black dough, then decorated with candy eyes, white chocolate stitches, and Oreo spiders for an easy Halloween cookie that’s as fun to make as it is to eat.

If there’s ever a time for cookies that look a little weird, it’s Halloween.

These Halloween Monster Cookies start with a soft brown sugar cookie dough, but instead of scooping and baking it as-is, the dough gets divided into three colors and pressed back together. The result is a different orange, purple, and black pattern on every cookie.

Then comes the fun part. Add mismatched candy eyes, pipe on a few white chocolate stitches, or stick an Oreo on top and turn it into a spider. There’s no precision required here. In fact, the uneven eyes and crooked stitches are what make them look better.

And unlike decorated sugar cookies, there’s no rolling, cutting, flooding, or waiting around for layers of icing to dry. You get all the Halloween payoff with a fraction of the decorating work.