Store bought ingredients and you're on your way to a fun filled family edible creation the kids are going to love.
You can actually make your own Shortbread Cookies too if you're feeling really energenic, I just make this the quickest easiest cookie as possible.
Not only are these simple cookies to make they're delicious and fun to eat and totally bewitching!
Check out these easy instructions and let get started on making this fun projects along with a great Halloween memory.
Creative Ideas
When I make these the kids like the colored sugars to place around the rim, it's a little messier but you can get newspaper down and let them have a blast.
Change the frosting colors to purple, yellow or any bright color you prefer, they can all be different.
Whether it's a school fun project, making them for a party or any just about any event, these are quick and a great addition to the party tables.
Ingredient Suggestions for Making Fun Witch Hats
- fudge stripe cookies (from any dollar store or the original Keebler kind)
- white canned frosting or homemade
- food coloring to make the rim of the hat red and orange make yellow
- sugar colors for the Halloween like purple, orange or black (this will make a glitter)
- hershey's kisses in either dark or milk chocolate
Tool You Will Need
- cookie sheet
- wax paper
- butter knife or offset spatula
- bowl
- spoon
- storage container for cookies
- optional pastry bag with round tip
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Make a recipe of shortbread from the Samoas Recipe CLICK HERE using a fluted edged cookie cutter and leaving in the middles, or use store-bought fudge striped cookies!
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There you have it, a happy Halloween witch hat and a party of fun treats!
Yield: 30
Easy Witch Hats
A fun project for the kids for Halloween using all store-bought ingredients. These fudge stripe cookies will turn into delicious witch hats.
Ingredients
- 1 package of store-bought fudge striped cookies of any kind
- 1 package of Hershey Kisses enough for each cookie in milk or dark chocolate unwrapped
- 1 can white frosting
- 1 tube of red food coloring
- 1 tube of yellow food coloring
- Note: you can use any color frosting you prefer Halloween colors
- Halloween colored sugars (orange, black, purple) or use sprinkles in any colors
- Wax paper
- Cookie sheet
- Container with a cover
- Butter knife
- Bowl to mix and color the frosting in
- Optional: Cake decorating pastry bag is optional using a large round tip to make the rim you can leave it just with the color that will seep under the Hershey kiss when pressing down.
Instructions
- Place a piece of wax paper on a cookie sheet.
- Line the cookies with the full chocolate icing side up.
- Mix the white frosting with a drop of red then yellow to make orange.
- Place a dollop of frosting on the bottom of each Hershey kiss.
- Press the unwrapped Hershey kiss into the center of the cookie squishing some of the frosting out and ( this will the rim orange color.
- Optional: using a piping cake decorating bag you can make a rim if you like bigger.
- Note: if using colored sugars and sprinkles use white frosting not tinted. ( I shake it on over the sink)
Calories
146.14Fat (grams)
6.89Sat. Fat (grams)
2.53Carbs (grams)
21.26Fiber (grams)
0.43Net carbs
20.83Sugar (grams)
17.34Protein (grams)
1.04Sodium (milligrams)
76.71Cholesterol (grams)
4.98
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Disclosure: This recipe was originally shared in 2012. It was edited and re-published in 2020.