These festive Halloween Monster Eye Cookies are SO cute and perfect for Halloween! A quick and easy cookie loaded with maple syrup, m&ms, and candy eyeballs!
Prep Time15 minutesmins
Cook Time10 minutesmins
Total Time25 minutesmins
Servings: 24cookies
Calories: 147kcal
Ingredients
½cupunsalted buttersoftened to room temperature
½cupbrown sugarpacked
1largeegg yolk
½cuppure maple syrup
2cupsall purpose flour
1teaspoonbaking soda
½teaspoonsalt
½cupchopped walnuts or pecansor replace with chocolate chips
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F and line a rimmed baking sheet with a silicone mat. Set aside.
In a large bowl, beat together butter, brown sugar, and egg yolk until fluffy, about 1 minute, then beat in maple syrup until well combined.
Add in flour, baking soda, and salt and beat together until fully combined, then stir in nuts (or mix-in of choice) and M&Ms.
Using a cookie scoop, scoop 6 cookies onto the prepared baking sheet.
Gently press the candy eyeballs on top of the cookie dough.
Bake in preheated oven for 10 minutes, or until cookies are cooked to your liking.
Gently press more candy eyeballs into the baked cookies, then cool slightly before removing them from the baking sheet and placing them on a cooling rack.
Repeat with remaining cookie dough, then eat and enjoy!