Halloween Chocolate Cookies with White Chocolate Chips

Halloween Chocolate Cookies with White Chocolate Chips and Peanut Butter Chips are festive perfect for sharing! These super soft dark chocolate cookies are studded with white chocolate, semisweet chocolate, peanut butter chips and Reese’s Pieces for the ultimate treat! Makes 30 cookies.

I realize it’s only September, but I’m so excited for fall and pumpkins and HALLOWEEN.

Which is why, for this here Freaky Friday recipe post, that I wanted to share something festive and fall-like.

And since I was assigned Amy from House of Nash Eats, I had a tough task ahead of me because holy cow, does Amy have some great fall recipes!

I ended up wanting to make her DARK CHOCOLATE HALLOWEEN CHIP COOKIES because they’re festive and fun… but also because I can’t resist a cookie. And they did NOT disappoint!

Why I love this recipe:

If you like chocolate and peanut butter, you’re going to swoon over these cookies!

I decided on this recipe a long time ago and was waiting for one of the ingredients to appear in my grocery.

Last week, I learned that the product was discontinued, so I had to make some adjustments to Amy’s original recipe.

I would like to think that these cookies capture the essence of hers.

Scroll on down to see how mine differ from hers and how you can make ’em yourself!

More festive Halloween recipes: Halloween Funfetti Cookies | Halloween Dessert Nachos | Melting Monster Halloween Punch | Halloween Caramel Corn | Caramel Corn Cookies | Halloween Trail Mix

Looking for more Halloween food ideas? Check out these 31 Halloween Recipes and my Halloween Recipe Index.

First, let me tell you about Amy from House of Nash Eats

Amy is the reason I learned about the Freaky Friday! She and I knew each other, thanks to being members of various blogger groups, but we never met until the 2018 Everything Food Conference.

We hit it off over lunch one day and have been friends ever since. 🙂

We’ve been known to chat about any and all blogging-related things. And she’s always been so kind in sharing her knowledge.

She also wrote a guest blog here last fall when I was on maternity leave. (Have you seen her Corn Dog Mini Muffins?)

I was thrilled when Amy was my assigned blogger because I’ve been itching to make some of her recipes. Also, maybe it’s just me, but there’s something SO MUCH FUN about being able to cook a friend’s site!

Some of the ones I’ve been drooling over include her Blue Bayou Monte Cristo Sandwiches, Smoked Pork Belly Burnt Ends and Halloween Chocolate Blossom Sprinkle Cookies.

So… What Is Freaky Friday?

It’s an old-fashioned blog hop.

A blog hop, for those of y’all who haven’t been around the blogosphere for forever, is a collaboration between bloggers where everyone brings something to the table, then you link to one another when the posts go live.

Michaela from An Affair from the Heart, the lady who founded this quarterly collab, secretly assigns everyone another blogger, who we will choose and make a recipe from.

We make their recipe, photograph it as if it were our own, write a post about it with our own personal anecdote and then all share our posts on the selected Friday.

We hope that this collaboration helps you discover some amazing new recipes, as well as find new bloggers to follow!

Some other recipes I’ve made for Freaky Friday include:

• Boozy Bacon Pretzel Peanut Butter Bars
• Instant Pot Macaroni and Cheese
• Cherry Bourbon Slush

What you’ll need to make this recipe:

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• Stand mixer.
• Cookie scoop (I used my 1 tablespoon scoop, but there is a 2 tablespoon scoop available, too)
• Sheet pan
• Parchment paper or nonstick baking mat

Here’s what you’ll need:

• Unsalted butter—this is the fat that’s the base of the cookie dough. Use unsalted butter so you can control the salt content added.
• Granulated sugar—also known as “white sugar,” this is one of the sweeteners we add to our cookie dough.
• Light brown sugar—I love light brown sugar for most cookies because it gives a mild molasses flavor and balances the texture between chewy and crunchy.
• Eggs—these help our cookies keep their structure, as well as give them a little lift.
• Pure vanilla extract—the real deal adds such lovely undertones of vanilla to the batter!
• All-purpose flour—we keep unbleached AP flour in our house, but the regular kind works, too. I have no tried this Halloween cookie recipe with a gluten free flour substitute.
• Dark cocoa powder—this is the chocolate base for our cookies.
• Baking soda—this is our leavener, and it will cause the cookies to puff up as they bake.
• Kosher salt—when I’m baking cookies, I like to use a fine grain kosher salt. You may also use the same amount of fine grain sea salt.
• Fillings—you’ll need a combination of semisweet chocolate chips, peanut butter chips, white chocolate chips and Reese’s Pieces

How to make Chocolate Cookies with White Chocolate Chips and Peanut Butter

You’re going to want to use your stand mixer for this recipe, so be prepared. It’ll make the process a lot easier since we’re making a ton of batter.

Also, make sure your ingredients are at room temperature! That means the butter AND the eggs. They’re easier to work with this way.

Make the cookie dough

Measure the butter and sugars into the bowl of the stand mixer. Cream them, beating for 3-4 minutes until light.

Crack the eggs. Add them one at a time. Measure in the vanilla, and mix until nice and smooth.

Add the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt. Mix on the lowest speed so the ingredients don’t dust your kitchen. Mix until combined.

Combine the mix-ins—semisweet chocolate chips, peanut butter chips, white chocolate chips and Reese’s Pieces—in a bowl.

Give them a stir.

Measure out TWO CUPS, and set the rest aside for later. You’ll use ‘em to make the cookies extra pretty.

Finish and chill the batter

Stir those 2 cups of the mix-ins into the cookie batter.

Cover and refrigerate for 30-60 minutes.

Shape and bake the cookies

When the batter has finished chilling, preheat the oven. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or a baking mat.

Form the cookies. Use a cookie scoop or a tablespoon measure to scoop 2 tablespoons of cookie dough for each cookie.

Shape the cookies. Use the palms of your hands to shape the cookie dough into a ball.

Place the cookie douh on the prepared baking sheet. Set the cookies 2” apart so they have space to spread.

Press a few of the reserved chocolate and peanut butter chips into the top of each cookie.

Bake for 8-11 minutes.

Transfer the cookies to a wire rack to cool completely before enjoying!

Erin’s Easy Entertaining Tips

Wouldn’t these Peanut Butter Chocolate White Chocolate Chip Cookies be the PERFECT addition to trick-or-treating or a Halloween party?

Here are some tips and tricks to help you entertain in style without the stress!

• Bake the Halloween cookies 1-2 days in advance. These beauties keep in an air-tight container easily, so do yourself a favor and don’t panic bake.
• Let your kids help! This is a really fun recipe to involve the kids. Depending on your child’s age, they can measure ingredients, man the stand mixer, form the cookie dough and press chocolates into the tops. It’s a fun activity for all, even if it can be a bit messy!
• Decorate your platter using additional Reese’s Pieces, as well as the chocolate and peanut butter chips! It’s an easy way to add pops of color that will tell your guests that are in these festive cookies.
• Make a label for them. Since these feature some common allergens, you might will want to label that they contain dairy and nuts.

Quick tips for making these Halloween cookies:

• Take the butter and eggs out of the fridge 30 minutes to 1 hour before you plan to make these cookies! That’ll give them the time to come to room temperature, and it will help the batter come together more easily.
• Store these cookies in an air-tight container for up to a week. My guess is they won’t last that long, though!
• Not a fan of semisweet chocolate? Throw in your favorite dark chocolate or milk chocolate chips!

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