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    Home » Recipes » Halloween

    Skull Cookies

    Published: Oct 18, '12 · Modified: Sep 23, '23 · By: Beth Klosterboer · This post may contain affiliate links.

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    Turn Nutter Butter Cookies into these easy-to-make Skull Cookies for Halloween. Each peanut butter cookie is coated in white chocolate and is decorated to look like a creepy skull.

    skull cookies Nutter Butter skulls.

    If you are looking for an easy Halloween treat to make for a party, grab a package of Nutter Butter cookies and make these cookie skulls. 

    The peanut butter sandwich cookies are already skull-shaped so you simply dip them in white chocolate and then draw on a face. 

    You could even serve the white-chocolate-dipped cookies to your party guests with a food coloring marker and let them decorate the cookies themselves.

    skull cookies and zombie cookies on a Halloween dessert table.

    We served these Nutter Butter Skulls at our Zombie Halloween party along with White Chocolate Popcorn drizzled with red "blood" and zombie cookies.

    Quick and Easy Halloween Treats - Nutter Butter Skulls

    Ingredients

    Nutter Butter Cookies

    white candy melts - If you don't have experience working with and melting confectionery coating/candy melts, read my Chocolate Making Tips page.

    black food coloring marker - Be sure to read my How To Use Food Coloring Markers post for tips on writing on candy melts. 

    Supplies

    dipping fork or kitchen fork

    parchment paper lined baking sheet that fits into your freezer

    Instructions

    dipping Nutter Butter Cookies in white chocolate to make skull cookies.

    Dip the cookies.

    • Dip a Nutter Butter cookie into the melted white candy coating.
    • Lift it out using a dipping fork or kitchen fork and allow excess candy coating to drip off.
    • Set the cookie on a parchment paper-lined baking sheet.
    • Repeat.
    • Freeze the dipped cookies for 5 minutes.
    • Remove from the freezer and allow the cookies to come to room temperature.
    skull cookies with various faces.

    Add faces.

    • Use a black food coloring marker to draw on the features of each skull.
    • Get creative and do some different faces.
    three Nutter Butter skulls with different faces set on a black placemat.

    Storage

    Store in an airtight container for up to two weeks.

    Related Recipes

    If you enjoy making these skull-shaped cookies, you might also like these other skull-shaped dessert ideas.

    white chocolate popcorn skull on a black background with loose popcorn on the table.

    White Chocolate Popcorn Skull

    sugar skulls

    Sugar Skulls

    brownie skulls.

    Brownie Skulls

    Be sure to check out all the Halloween recipes here on Hungry Happenings.

    skull cookies Nutter Butter skulls.
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    Skull Cookies
    Prep Time
    45 mins
    Cook Time
    3 mins
    Chill Time
    10 mins
     

    White chocolate-dipped Nutter Butter Cookies decorated like skulls for Halloween.

    Course: Dessert
    Cuisine: American
    Keyword: cookies, nutter butter cookies, white chocolate
    Servings: 12
    Calories: 165 kcal
    Author: Beth Klosterboer
    Ingredients
    • 12 ounces white candy melts
    • 12 Nutter Butter Cookies
    • black food coloring marker
    Instructions
    1. Pour the white candy melts into a microwave-safe bowl.

    2. Heat in the microwave for 30-second bursts of high power, stirring after each until melted.

    3. Dip a Nutter Butter Cookie into the melted white candy melts them remove using a candy dipping fork or kitchen fork.

    4. Tap the fork on the side of the bowl allowing the excess chocolate to drip off the cookie.

    5. Set the cookie on a parchment paper-lined baking sheet.

    6. Repeat.

    7. Freeze the dipped cookies for 5-10 minutes just until the white chocolate hardens.

    8. Remove the cookies from the freezer and let them warm up to room temperature for about 30 minutes before decorating.

    9. Use a food coloring marker to draw faces on the white chocolate-dipped cookies.

    10. Let the food coloring ink to dry before packaging the cookie skulls.

    Recipe Notes

    Store the cookies at room temperature for up to 2 weeks. 

    You'll have extra white candy melts in the bowl. Spread it out on a parchment paper-lined baking sheet, freeze for 5-10 minutes until hardened. Store in an airtight container for another use. 

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    1. Trish - Sweetology101

      October 20, 2012 at 3:42 am

      nothing better than quick easy and TASTY - thanks for another awesome idea, Beth!

      Reply
    2. Tonii

      October 18, 2012 at 6:51 pm

      I LOVE these!! I have used Nutter Butters to make ghosts...but I never would have thought to do skulls! Great idea, thank you so much for sharing!!

      Reply
    3. Jennifer @ Not Your Momma's Cookie

      October 18, 2012 at 3:26 pm

      Very cute and creative!

      Reply
    4. Anonymous

      October 18, 2012 at 3:15 pm

      i love all these ideas just wish that canada wasnt nut free , leaves parents limited ..school, karate class, brownies all are nut free ....is there any other cookies with this shape out there for us in canada

      Reply
      • Beth Jackson Klosterboer

        October 18, 2012 at 4:25 pm

        Oh, sorry to hear that. You could swap out Pepperide Farm Milanos or any oval cream filled cookies. I know there are some but I'm not sure of brand names. The cookies wont have the "8" shape, but will still work well as skulls.

        Reply
    5. The Partiologist

      October 18, 2012 at 1:11 pm

      Love these Beth! And the little faces you drew are adorable!! 🙂

      Reply
    6. Kalamity Kelli

      October 18, 2012 at 1:10 pm

      These are great! Love them - Not sure I am talented enough to successfully pull off the dip/freeze/draw combo but I'm willing to give it the old college try! Have everything I need. You have such great ideas!

      Reply
    7. Jill @ KitchenFunWithMy3Sons.com

      October 18, 2012 at 12:04 pm

      Absolutely love these Beth! I love easy treats and these are perfect. Its nice to see something different like these from the Nutterbutter ghosts. Share these with Nabisco on FB..I bet they will love them!

      Reply
      • Beth Jackson Klosterboer

        October 18, 2012 at 12:32 pm

        Great suggestion, Jill. I just added it to Nabisco's FB page and their Nutter Butter page!

        Reply

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