Surprise Sugar Cookie Stacks and iPad Mini Giveaway
These Halloween surprise sugar cookies stacks will give your a spooky surprise as soon as you bite in! Easy and quick and frightfully fun!
Gimme two snaps if you’re excited for Halloween!! Truth is, I’m giving it three snaps. One, because it means chocolate, Almond Joys, Kit Kats and mini 3 Mustkateers twenty four seven. Two, because fall is in full swing and I am totally high on the changing colors of the leaves. And three, because it’s my birthday – this year, the Big 2-8! Okay, and four – because of treats like these!!
Some of your favorite bloggers (and my favorite, too!) have each pitched in spooky, and sinfully simply treats for you today to help get your oozey, gooey, hallowed spirits in gear for Halloween! Best of all these are a cinch when you’re in a entertaining pinch. You knew that rhyme was way to easy. Be sure to take a peek at all of the hallowed treats for your howl-iday.
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Be sure to enter this SPOOKTACULAR iPad Mini Giveaway!! Follow the directions and be sure to enter! Giveaway is open now until November!!

Surprise Sugar Cookie Stacks
- Prep Time: 30 minutes
- Cook Time: 1 hour
- Total Time: 1 hour 30 minutes
- Yield: 6 stacks 1x
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Baked
- Cuisine: American
Description
These Halloween surprise sugar cookies stacks will give your a spooky surprise as soon as you bite in! Easy and quick and frightfully fun!
Ingredients
Cookies::
- 2 Packages Pillsbury Sugar Cookie Dough
- 1 cup Mini M&M candies
Frosting::
- ½ cup Butter, room temperature
- ½ cup Shortening
- 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
- 5–6 tsp Milk
- Pinch Salt
- 4 cups Powdered Sugar, sifted
- 1 − 3″ Round Cookie Cutter
- 1 − 1″ Round Cookie Cutter
- Assorted Food Colorings – Black, Orange, etc.
- Piping Bags
- Coupler
- Cake Tip 1 or 3, 12
Instructions
For Cookies::
- Pre-heat oven, slice cookies and place on prepared baking sheet. Bake according to package directions.
- Remove cookies from sheet. Cut a 1-inch hole out of every other sugar cookie using the 1-inch round cookie cutter, while still warm.
- Remove center and set cookies aside to finish cooling. Discard (or eat) the center cut out of the rest of the cookies.
For Frosting::
- In stand mixer or with hand mixer in a large bowl, beat together the butter and shortening until smooth and combined. Add in vanilla extract, pinch of salt and 5 teaspoons of milk.
- Slowly mix in powdered sugar and beat until combined and smooth. If the frosting is to thick, add in additional teaspoon of milk so that is a spreadable consistency.
- Divide the frosting into small bowls and tint in desired colors. *Note* If the frosting doesn’t immediately turn the desired color after repeated attempts to darken the frosting, let it rest and it will darken as it sets. Place into separate piping bags.
To Assemble ::
- For the bottom cookie, use a whole cookie. Pipe around the outer edge of the cookie and top with a cookie ring. Repeat the piping process with another cookie ring.
- With two cookie rings attached to a bottom cookie, fill the center well with M&M’s. Pipe a frosting ring around the edge of one full-cookie and place on top to cover the M&M wells. Frost the top cookie as desired.
- If making a spider web – Frost the top cookie with white frosting. Use a piping bag with a number 1 or 3 frosting tip and filled with black frosting. Draw five intersecting straight lines on top of the white frosting. Gently make swooping lines between the intersecting lines to create a webbed pattern. Serve immediately.
Megan!! These are awesome!! So cute and festive!! Love them! 🙂
Super cute.. love these.
These little stacks of goodness look awesome! My daughter would love them!
These cookies are adorable. I would love to make them with the “grands”!
These are so cute!
How cute is this?! I’m sure the kiddos would FLIP for these!
I love the sugar cookies they look so yummy. My daughter will love these.
Now this is dang cute!
ADORABLE ! Happy Birthday !
These cookies are adorable…..perfect Halloween surprise inside too!
These look like so much fun.
Those are very cute. I did want to enter for the IPad Mini, but I’m not seeing any directions. Am I missing something? When I click on the link for it I get an error 404. 🙁
Precious! I know some neighbor kids who would love these – I’d have to give them away so I don’t consume every single one myself.
How fun are these? What kid can resist.
Those are too fun! Love the hidden pocket of candy in them!!!
This seems like a really good reason to eat four cookies. I’m all about it!
Haha, I love Rachel’s comment- I’m all for eating 4 cookies! These are so super cute!
Too cute! If only you could’ve figured out a way to put some cream cheese in them 😉
GENIUS!!!!! Sooooo COOOL Meg!!!!
These are so incredibly cool! LOVE them! (For any holiday — spooky or not.)
I always down with candy hidden in cookies.
Would love the recipe, but get error when try to move forward?
Hi Sheri, You have to scroll all the way to the bottom of the post to see the recipe. There is a print button there as well, so you can take a copy with you! Hope this helps – http://homemadehome.com/2013/10/surprise-sugar-cookie-stacks.html
Adorable. Love this idea.
I love these – so fun! I’m so glad you partied with us!!
What a great idea! These would be so cute decorated like little gifts for the holiday season!!!!
So sneaky! Thank you for the great spooky treat ideas! Now the only thing is I also cannot figure out how to enter the giveaway. I am not seeing the directions. Could it be my browser? Thanks!
Hi Amanda! So thrilled you like the cookies! The app for the giveaway might take a minute to load, sorry! Try and clear your web browser’s cache and history and reload. That might help 🙂 Happy (almost) Halloween! Megan
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These are like the cutest cookies every!! My kids would go crazy for these! Definitely need to get on it!
how to enter?
The link for the giveaway app is broken, it’s not showing up at all.
Please try again, I jus reinstalled it! Good luck and let me know if it works!
These cookies are so much fun 🙂 I bet they taste incredible!
Hi! Yup it’s working now:)
I’d download Solitaire as my first app if I won.
Thanks for the chance and for this yummy recipe.
my kids would think I was a rock star if I made these 🙂 awesome!!
I hope you give them a go!! 🙂
oh my gawd, Megan!! I love these!!! fabulous idea!!! Pinned!!
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