Nightmare Before Christmas Jack Skellington Cookie Cake!
 
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Nightmare Before Christmas Jack Skellington Cookie Cake!
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Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Serves: 1
Ingredients
  • Cookie Ingredients:
  • 2 Cups of flour
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1⁄2 tsp kosher salt
  • 3⁄4 Cup unsalted sweet cream butter butter
  • 3⁄4 Cup of sugar
  • 3⁄4 Cup of light brown sugar
  • 1 large egg
  • 2 tsp pure vanilla extract
  • 1 1⁄2 Cup of Halloween M&M’s
  • Vanilla Frosting Ingredients:
  • 1 Cup unsalted sweet cream butter, softened
  • 2 Cups powdered sugar
  • 2 tsp pure vanilla extract
  • 4 tbsp heavy whipping cream
  • 2 disposable piping bags
  • Black gel food coloring
Instructions
  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and spray a 9inch cast iron skillet with nonstick baking spray. Add butter, sugar and brown sugar in a large mixing bowl.
  2. Using an electric mixing cream the butter, sugar, and brown sugar together until smooth.
  3. Add in the egg and pure vanilla extract to the mixing bowl and beat until light and fluffy.
  4. Sift flour, salt, and baking soda in an additional large bowl.
  5. Slowly add ⅓rd of the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients. Beat after each addition to mix all ingredients and fold in the 1 Cup of M&M’s.
  6. Scoop the batter into the prepared skillet and smooth the top of the dough with an offset spatula or butter knife. Sprinkle the remaining M&M’s on top and bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes.
  7. Set aside to cool completely before decorating.
  8. Vanilla Frosting Directions:
  9. Using a standing mixer, beat the butter, powdered sugar, vanilla and heavy whipping cream until combined, smooth, and thick. Scoop about 1 Cup of frosting into a small bowl and mix in a few drops of the black gel food coloring.
  10. Scoop the black into 1 piping bag and set aside. Scoop the white frosting into the other piping bag.
  11. Cut the tips off each piping bag and using the white frosting, pipe an oval onto the cookie.
  12. Fill in the oval with white frosting and smooth evenly.
  13. Using the black frosting, pipe on the details of Jacks face and Pipe a black outline around the white oval.
  14. That's all you have to do to make this tasty spooky treat!
Recipe by Brite and Bubbly at https://briteandbubbly.com/nightmare-before-christmas-cookie-cake/