Chocolate Mummy Cookies – Eat Yourself Skinny

Get festive this Halloween with these scrumptious Chocolate Mummy Cookies!  Made more healthy with zero butter, oil or refined sugar and are the proper spooky deal with your children will love!

Halloween is correct across the nook and these lovable chocolate mummy cookies are positive to be successful together with your children!  Not solely are the cookies tremendous cute with these googly eyes and white chocolate bandages, however the mixture of chocolate and peanut butter in these fudgy cookies makes them such a winner!  Good for Halloween events served with my Frankenstein rice krispie treats and this Halloween charcuterie board!

Why You’ll Love these Cookies

• Two phrases: TRIPLE CHOCOLATE 🙌🏻
• Made multi functional bowl for simple clean-up.
• These Halloween treats are gluten-free and tremendous easy to make.
• Festive and enjoyable dessert to make that your children will love!

Elements You’ll Want

• Almond flour – this can be a tasty gluten-free/low carb flour that has nice taste and wholesome fat, simply be sure to make use of almond flour and never almond meal.  If you happen to don’t have almond flour, another gluten-free flour mix will work and even common all-purpose flour
• Unsweetened cocoa powder – provides the chocolate to those cookies
• Baking soda – this acts as a leavening agent to assist these cookies bake up properly and make them chewy
• Peanut butter – I used creamy pure peanut butter with none added sugar, however you may use almond butter or another nut butter for those who favor and SunButter is a superb possibility when you have any nut allergic reactions
• Eggs – acts as a binding ingredient and provides the cookies construction and top
• Coconut sugar – naturally sweetens these cookies with out utilizing any refined sugar, however you may additionally use maple syrup or honey
• Chocolate chips – I used these Lily’s chocolate chips that are sweetened with stevia making the sugar content material actually low and provides these cookies much more chocolate taste!
• Vanilla extract + salt – boosts of taste!
• Spooky additions – you’ll want white chocolate chips (once more I used Lily’s chocolate chips which can be sweetened with stevia) to drizzle on the “bandages” together with enjoyable candy eyeballs which you will discover at most grocery shops, craft shops or proper on Amazon

How you can Make Chocolate Mummy Cookies

This explicit chocolate mummy cookie recipe makes about 18 common sized cookies or I used a medium-sized cookie scoop to verify they have been all even in dimension. Right here’s the best way to make them:

1. Preheat oven and blend components.  Preheat oven to 375 levels and line a baking sheet with parchment paper or aluminum foil.  In a big bowl, combine collectively the peanut butter, eggs, and vanilla till all mixed.  Subsequent add within the almond flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, coconut sugar and salt, stirring the combination till clean, then fold within the chocolate chips.  You can additionally use a stand mixer or an electrical mixer for this, however why soiled additional dishes!
2. Assemble cookies.  Utilizing a medium-sized cookie scoop, drop tablespoonfuls of cookie dough onto a ready baking sheet and flatten the tops a bit with the again finish of a spatula.  It is best to get about 18 cookies.
3. BAKE!  Bake the cookies at 375 levels for 12 to fifteen minutes till cookies are set and the perimeters begin to brown, then let the cookies cool on the baking tray for about 10 minutes earlier than transferring them to a wire rack.  We would like the cookies fully cool earlier than adorning.
4. Beautify.  Add white chocolate chips (or white candy melts) in a small microwave-safe bowl and microwave in 30 second intervals, mixing every time, till melted.  Lower a small slit on the tip of a plastic dishevelled or piping bag and thoroughly pour within the melted white chocolate chips.  Slowly pipe the chocolate onto the cookies to make them appear to be “mummy bandages” after which use the melted chocolate to attach the candy eyes on.

Suggestions for Making Chocolate Mummy Cookies

• You may simply swap out the peanut butter for any sort of nut butter!  Another nice choices are almond butter, cashew butter and even sunflower seed butter when you have a nut allergy.
• Soften the chocolate chips in 15 to 30 second intervals, ensuring to stir properly every time, till the chocolate is clean.  You need to watch out to not overheat the chocolate as it may possibly begin to clump.  If this occurs, simply add a teaspoon of scorching water to the clumped chocolate (or extra if wanted) and stir vigorously till clean.
• The melted white chocolate is just not solely used to create the “bandages” on the mummies, however acts because the glue to stay on the candy eyeballs.  You can additionally use cream cheese, buttercream or white frosting to create the bandages.
• I prefer to pipe the melted chocolate onto the cookies whereas they’re on a wire rack which catches any extra chocolate that drips off the edges.  Then I simply switch the cookies to some parchment paper to let the chocolate set.

Prepping and Storage

To Retailer:  These cute chocolate mummy cookies might be saved in a sealed, hermetic container for as much as 1 week within the fridge.

To Freeze:  These cookies will also be frozen for as much as 3 months in a sealed, hermetic container or you’ll be able to individually retailer them in plastic wrap and take them out individually to thaw.

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