Halloween Bat Cookies

These festive chocolate bat cookies are the perfect adorable Halloween treat. A simple chocolate sugar cookie made into a sandwich with a light and fluffy peanut butter filling. The kids will be asking for seconds.

Cook Time12

Total Time40

Servings: sandwich cookies

Calories: 317kcal

Author: Karin and Ken

Ingredients

Bat Cookies

½ cup butter softened
1 cup granulated sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon almond extract
½ teaspoon salt
1 large egg
1 teaspoon baking soda
½ cup cocoa powder
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon food grade activated charcoal or black food coloring gel, if desired

Peanut Butter Filling

½ cup creamy peanut butter
2 cups powdered sugar
3-4 tablespoons heavy cream
2 teaspoons maple extract or maple syrup

Instructions

Get out and measure all of your ingredients. Preheat to 375 degrees, line a baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
In a large bowl mix together butter and sugar for 30 seconds with an electric mixer.
Add in vanilla extract, almond extract, salt, and egg. Mix until all ingredients are combined.
In a separate bowl whisk together, baking soda, cocoa powder, and flour. Stir until blended.
Slowly add dry ingredients into wet. Add drops of black food coloring gel or a heaping tablespoon of activated charcoal at this point to get black bats.
Mix with a spoon until combined.
Add dough to parchment paper and place a piece of parchment paper on top.
Roll out dough with rolling pin. You will want the dough to be 1⁄4" thick.
Cut out dough with bat cookie cutter and place on lined cookie sheet.
Bake in the pre-heated oven for 10-12 minutes.
While the cookies are baking, mix together peanut butter, powdered sugar, heavy cream and maple extract in a medium bowl.
You can add an extra tablespoon of heavy cream until you have reached a creamy smooth texture.
Remove cookies and place on rack to cool.
Spread peanut butter filling to one side of a cooled cookie. Make a sandwich by adding another cookie on top.
Continue until all cookies have filling inside them.
Add a tiny drop of filing and place edible googly eyes on top, if desired.
Serve and enjoy every bite!

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Notes

Black food coloring gel is better than plain black food coloring because it makes a deeper black color.
Find bat cookie cutters online. You can also find them at most big box stores.
Be sure to lift your cookie cutter straight up without twisting to keep your bat shape intact. You don't want to damage your bat wings.
Are your bat cookies are browning too fast? Cover them with foil for the remainder of the baking time.
Be sure your baking soda is fresh. Old baking soda loses its ability to make baked goods rise, which results in a flat cookie.

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