Halloween Wafer Cookies
Easy homemade no bake decorated Halloween Wafer cookies you can make with the kids. Wafer cookies dipped in melted candy melts and decorated with sprinkles.
Ingredients
- 12 oz Wilton Candy Melts Orange
- 12 oz Wilton Candy Melts Vibrant Green
- 14 oz Vanilla Wafers
- Sprinkles (I used Sweet Tooth Fairy Sprinkle Mix)
- 1 to 2 tablespoons Crisco vegetable shortening or Wilton candy wax
Instructions
- Line the baking or cookie sheets with non stick parchment paper.
- Place the entire bag of candy melts in a candy melting container or bowl. If you are using a divided candy melting container like I have place each color of candy melts in one section of the container. If you are using a bowl pour one color of candy melts in the bowl to melt at a time.
- Add 1 tablespoon of Crisco vegetable shortening or Wilton Candy Wax to the container with the candy melts.
- Heat the bowl of candy melts for 30 seconds in the microwave. Remove and mix. The candy melts will not have melted much at this point. Return the bowl to the microwave and heat at 30-second intervals mixing the candy melts after every 30 seconds until they are completely melted and smooth. Add more shortening as needed to thin the melting candy melts.
- Once the Wilton candy melts have reached a thin enough consistency use a candy dipping tool or a kitchen fork to dip one wafer cookie into the melted candy coating at a time. Lift the candy-coated wafer cookie from the melted candy coating and carefully tap the fork on the side of the container so the excess melting candy will drip back into the container.
- Place the dipped cookie on the parchment paper covered cookie sheet and immediately sprinkle the top with your choice of sprinkles or nonpareils.
- Repeat with the remaining cookies. If the candy coating starts to harden warm it in the microwave for about 20 seconds to thin it out.
- Allow the candy-coated wafer cookies to harden on the cookie sheets. (see tips).
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Recipe Expert Tips
- Makes 30 to 40 decorated Halloween cookies.
- Use Halloween themed sprinkles for decorations.
- Set up a work area on a counter or kitchen Island.
- Open all of the sprinkle containers so they are ready to go before melting the candy melts.
- Lining the baking sheet or cookie sheets with parchment paper makes it easier to pick up the finished and decorated wafer cookies. You don't want to damage the pretty cookies.
- The divided candy melting container makes it easy to work with two colors of candy melts at the same time.
- Add 1 to 2 tablespoons of Crisco or wax as you are melting the candy melts. You want the melted candy melts to be thin enough to coat the wafer cookies but thick enough to leave a nice coating on the cookies.
- The candy coating will take anywhere from 1 hour to overnight to harden depending on the temperature of the room you are working in. Here where I live in Florida it is hot and humid most of the year. I like to let the candy coating harden overnight.
- You may speed up the hardening process by placing the trays in the refrigerator. But this will introduce moisture and again depending on the conditions of where you live moisture may form on the candy coating from the change in temperature. If this happens allow the cookies to dry naturally or place a fan on low to blow on the cookies. If you attempt to pick the cookie up while it is moist it will leave fingerprint marks on the candy coating everywhere you touched it.
Nutrition
Serving: 1CookieCalories: 115kcalCarbohydrates: 16gProtein: 1gFat: 5gSaturated Fat: 3gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 1gTrans Fat: 1gCholesterol: 1mgSodium: 63mgPotassium: 11mgFiber: 1gSugar: 10gCalcium: 1mgIron: 1mg
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