Jack Skellington Cookie Skillet
Move over chocolate chip cookie skillet, this Jack Skellington Cookie Skillet is the new dessert worth heating up the oven over. It is so easy to make and requires just 9 ingredients you likely already have at home!
Equipment
Ingredients
For The Cookie:
- 2 Cups flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon kosher salt
- ¾ Cup unsalted sweet cream butter butter
- ¾ Cup sugar
- ¾ Cup light brown sugar
- 1 large egg
- 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- 1 ½ Cups Halloween M&M’s
For The Vanilla Frosting:
- 1 Cup unsalted sweet cream butter softened
- 2 Cups powdered sugar
- 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- 4 Tablespoons heavy whipping cream
- 2 disposable piping bags
- Black gel food coloring
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and spray a 9-inch cast iron skillet with nonstick baking spray.
- Add butter, sugar and brown sugar in a large mixing bowl.
- Using an electric mixing cream the butter, sugar, and brown sugar together until smooth.
- Add in the egg and pure vanilla extract to the mixing bowl. Beat until light and fluffy.
- Sift flour, salt, and baking soda in an additional large bowl.
- Slowly add 1/3rd of the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients.
- Beat after each addition to mix all ingredients.
- Fold in the 1 Cup of M&M’s.
- Scoop the batter into the prepared skillet.
- Smooth the top of the dough with an offset spatula or butter knife.
- Sprinkle the remaining M&M’s on top.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes.
- Set aside to cool completely before decorating.
- While the cookie is cooling, it's time to make the frosting. You can skip this step and just use premade cans of frosting if you prefer.
- Using a standing mixer, beat the butter, powdered sugar, vanilla and heavy whipping cream until combined, smooth, and thick.
- Scoop about 1 Cup of frosting into a small bowl and mix in a few drops of the black gel food coloring
- Scoop the black frosting into 1 piping bag and set aside.
- Scoop the white frosting into the other piping bag.
- Cut the tips off each piping bag or use a round tip.
- Using the white frosting, pipe an oval/circle onto the cookie
- Fill in the oval with white frosting and smooth evenly.
- Using the black frosting, pipe on the details of Jack Skellington's face
- Pipe a black outline around the white oval
- Serve and Enjoy!
Nutrition information is a rough estimate only; actual values will vary based on the exact ingredients used and amount of recipe prepared.
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