HALLOWEEN CHOCOLATE CHERRY COOKIE SHOTS
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.
Servings: 6 servings
Calories: 485kcal
Ingredients
Cookie Shots
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- ½ cup dark cocoa powder
- ⅙ cup granulated sugar
- ⅓ cup brown sugar
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ⅛ teaspoon baking powder
- 6 Tablespoons butter
- 1 egg
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- ⅓ cup mini chocolate chips optional
- ½ cup chocolate or chocolate chips melted (for lining inside)
Filling:
- ½ can cherry pie filling or your favorite liqueur
Toppings:
- 1 cup Whipped cream sprinkles, 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.
- Insert a candy knife if you want.
Nutrition
Calories: 485kcal | Carbohydrates: 68g | Protein: 6g | Fat: 22g | Saturated Fat: 15g | Cholesterol: 66mg | Sodium: 245mg | Potassium: 327mg | Fiber: 4g | Sugar: 29g | Vitamin A: 580IU | Vitamin C: 1.8mg | Calcium: 106mg | Iron: 2.6mg
