Midnight Madness Cookies Recipes

MOONLIGHT MADNESS COOKIES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F. In medium bowl, stir cookie mix, flour, butter and egg until soft dough forms.
• On floured surface, roll dough to 1/4-inch thickness. Cut with 3- to 3 1/2-inch round cookie cutter; combine scraps and reroll dough once. On ungreased cookie sheet, place cutouts 1 inch apart. Refrigerate 10 minutes.
• Bake 7 to 9 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool 1 minute. Remove from cookie sheet to cooling rack. Cool completely.
• Frost cookies with white icing and small amount of black icing to form gray, swirling to blend. Press 2 candies into each cookie for eyes. Let stand until set. With black icing, pipe eyebrows, nose and mouth onto each cookie.

MIDNIGHT MADNESS CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F. Place paper baking cup in each of 24 regular-size muffin cups or spray with cooking spray. Make and bake cake mix as directed on box for cupcakes, using water, oil and eggs. Cool 10 minutes; remove from pans to cooling racks. Cool completely, about 30 minutes.
• Spoon frosting into medium bowl; tint with purple food color. Frost cupcakes. Sprinkle with sanding sugar. Top with rock candy. Cut out each snack cake to look like crescent moon. Garnish cupcakes with moon cutouts.

CHOCOLATE MIDNIGHT MADNESS

Steps:

• In a large bowl with the mixer at moderate speed, beat cream cheese and the all-purpose cream until smooth. Gradually beat in sugar.
• Beat in eggs, one at a time. Beat in chocolate and vanilla until smooth.
• Pour into the pie crust; place on a cookie sheet. Bake at 300° C in an oven 30 to 35 minutes or until set.
• Chill 4 hours. Serve cold. Drizzle with the peppermint syrup, if desired.