Play with Your Food: Halloween Cookie Pops

Here’s what they’ll look like when you’re finished. Silly? Spooky? You make the call.

Sandwich cookies, white chocolate melting chips (follow the package instructions to melt), food coloring, white sprinkles (for the fangs), black fondant or dark fruit leather (like grape), candy eyeballs, treat sticks (you can leave these off and just make decorated cookies), tweezers.

Poke a treat stick into the sandwich cookie filling. You can also carefully separate the cookie, put the stick in the filling and put the cookie back together.

Dip the cookie in pastel-colored chocolate and cover completely. Lay it on parchment paper/silicone mat (or stick it in a foam block) to harden.

Roll out the fondant (or use fruit leather) and cut three pieces as shown:

—Trace a sandwich cookie with the tip of a knife to make a circle (or use a cookie cutter the same size as the cookie); cut a wide M shape at the top of the circle to make Vampire’s hair.

—Cut a second, tiny circle, and cut it in half to make his collar.

—Cut a sliver for the mouth.

Use melted chocolate to attach the hair, collar and mouth as shown.

Use tweezers and melted chocolate to attach eyes.

Use tweezers and melted chocolate to attach white sprinkles to make the fangs. Mwah-ha-ha!

Here’s what they’ll look like when you’re all wrapped up. (Get it?)

Sandwich cookies, white chocolate melting chips (follow the package instructions to melt), food coloring (for the Mummy, you’ll need some colored chocolate for dipping and some left plain white in a squeeze bottle), candy eyeballs, treat sticks (you can leave these off and just make decorated cookies), tweezers

Poke a treat stick into the sandwich cookie filling. You can also carefully separate the cookie, put the stick in the filling and put the cookie back together.

Dip the cookie in pastel-colored chocolate and cover completely. Lay it on parchment paper/silicone mat (or stick it in a foam block) to harden.

Use a squeeze bottle to drizzle plain white chocolate back and forth over the cookies to make bandages. (You may have to heat the chocolate a little more to make it super-melty.)

Before the bandages harden, use tweezers to add two eyes.

Here’s what they’ll look like when you’re finished. See how cute they are?

Sandwich cookies, white chocolate melting chips (follow the package instructions to melt), food coloring, pastel sprinkles, candy eyeballs in different sizes, treat sticks (you can leave these off and just make decorated cookies), tweezers

Poke a treat stick into the sandwich cookie filling. You can also carefully separate the cookie, put the stick in the filling and put the cookie back together.

Dip the cookie in pastel-colored chocolate and cover completely. Lay it on a piece of parchment or silicone baking mat.

Before it hardens completely, add an eye—or three. (If it doesn’t stick, use a little extra melted chocolate.)

Add sprinkles for hair? Fur? Get creative with placement. (If they don’t stick, you can add a little more melted chocolate.) (TBH, you can reverse the steps for adding the hair/fur and eyes.)