Spooky and delicious Halloween Chocolate Cherry Cookie Shots are perfect for holiday parties. The cookie shots are made of a rich chocolate cookie and filled with sweet cherry pie filling or your favorite shot. Top them with whipped cream, a bloody knife and colorful Halloween sprinkles to complete an awesomely gruesome dessert.
½cupchocolate or chocolate chipsmelted (for lining inside)
Filling:
½cancherry pie filling or your favorite liqueur
Toppings:
1cupWhipped creamsprinkles, candy knives
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray cookie mold cavities and inserts with nonstick spray.
Combine flour, cocoa powder, both sugars, salt and baking powder in a large mixing bowl.
Melt butter in a microwave safe bowl. Let cool slightly.
Whisk egg and vanilla extract into butter.
Pour butter mixture into dry ingredients and mix well. You can do all this by hand or use a stand mixer.
Stir in chocolate chips if desired.
Using a medium cookie scoop, scoop balls of dough into the bottom of each cavity.
Take an insert and press down firmly into cavity all the way to bottom. Make sure to keep the insert in the center of the cavity.
Repeat with all inserts.
Bake in oven for 17-19 minutes or until the top's of cookies feel firm and dry.
Remove to wire rack and trim edges of cookies that have risen above baking pan.
Let cookies cool for 10 minutes then remove inserts by gently twisting. Remove cookies and let cool completely on wire rack.
Pour sprinkles on to a flat plate.
When cool, melt ½ cup chocolate in microwave. using a paint brush, brush the inside of the cookie cups making sure to coat well and seal up any cracks.
Brush extra chocolate on the rims of cookie shots and dip into the plateful of sprinkles.
Let dry. (I like to place mine in the refrigerator for about 30 minutes then I proceed with filling)
Take a can of cherry pie filling and spoon some into each cookie shot or you can pour a shot of your favorite liqueur in just prior to sipping.
Top with whipped cream, either fresh or canned.
Color some of the whipped cream red or drop some red food coloring down side for blood.