Cute marshmallow chocolate googly eyes cookies make a fun snack or Halloween treat.
Cookies are delicious any way you make them, but add a sprinkle of cocoa to them and fun monster eyes and you have a really fun treat on your hands. You can buy pre-made 
How Do You Make Googly Eyes?
For our googly eyes cookies, we cut mini marshmallows in half and inserted them into the baked cookies as soon as they were out of the oven. If you wait too long the marshmallows won’t sink into the cookie and stick. Let the cookies cool on the baking sheet for about 5 minutes and then slide the parchment paper with the cookies off of the tray.
This is a good time to place the mini chocolate chips into the marshmallows for the eye pupils. If you place the chocolate chips too soon they tend to melt or too late and the chips won’t stick to the marshmallows. Push the chocolate chips into the still warm marshmallow so that the eyes stay intact, otherwise you’ll have ghost eyes instead of monster googly eyes cookies.
How To Shape the Googly Eyes Cookies
Use a heaping tablespoon of dough, roll gently between your palms to form a loose ball. Pour some sugar on a plate and roll the cookie dough ball in the sugar then place on a parchment lined baking tray. 12 cookie will comfortably fit onto a cookie tray. Space the googly eyes cookies evenly so that they do not bake into each other, meaning enough space that you will end up with round cookies.
Help, My Cookies Spread And Now I Have One Big Rectangle Cookie!
No worries. Once the googly eyes cookies are baked, immediately put the marshmallow eyes on the cookies. Then pull the parchment paper off of the baking tray and onto a cutting board. Now use a 
How To Package The Googly Eyes Cookies As A Halloween Treat
You can place a cookie in a 
How To Make Smiling Googly Eyes Cookies
My 15 year old son had a great suggestion, why not cut a mouth into the cookies. I just used a table knife for this. You’ll want to keep the mouth on the smaller side as the cookies tend to fall apart if the smile goes too close to the side of the cookie. Drew also suggested putting just one eye on the cookie and cut a triangle mouth out of the opposite side…….now you have a Pac Man cookie. These smiling googly eyes cookies put an actual smile on MY face, but you’ll need plenty of napkins and plates because as I said earlier, the cookies tend to fall apart if not held gently, the hole for the mouth takes away the structural integrity of the cookies. If you plan on cutting the smiley faces I would suggest keeping the cookies on the thicker side to give them more backbone.
Googly Eyes Cookies For Halloween or Birthdays
Adorable googly eyes cookies are delicious and fun for Halloween or for birthday sweets. Eyes are made from marshmallows and chocolate chips.
Ingredients
- 2 1/4 Cup All Purpose Flour
- 1 teaspoon Baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon Baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon Table salt
- 1 1/2 Cups Sugar plus 1/3 more for rolling
- 1/2 Cup Cocoa Powder
- 1/2 Cup Unsalted butter melted and warm
- 1/3 Cup Canola oil
- 1 Large Egg
- 1/4 Cup Milk
- 2 teaspoons Vanilla extract
- 24 Mini Marshmallows
- 48 Mini Chocolcate Chips
Instructions
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Assemble your baking trays and line them with parchment paper. Gather marshmallows and mini chocolate chips. Pour 1/3 sugar on a saucer and get out a flat bottomed glass that you will use to flatten the dough balls.
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Melt butter slowly over medium low heat, remove from heat once the butter is melted.
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees. These cookies are a little temperamental, it’s best to use the center shelf in the oven and cook each tray separately.
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Mix dry ingredients first by whisking together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, cocoa powder and table salt.
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In a large bowl put 1 ½ cups of sugar and pour the warm melted butter over the sugar. Whisk. Add oil, whisk again until the oil is evenly mixed. In the measuring cup that you had the oil in, add egg, milk and vanilla. Add this to the wet ingredients and whisk one last time.
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Add the flour mixture to wet ingredients using a wooden spoon or rubber spatula. Add a little bit of flour at a time. Only mix enough to incorporate all of the ingredients. If it is too dry add a tablespoon of additional milk at a time.
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Place a heaping tablespoon of dough into your impeccably clean hands (from Sara Moulton) and roll gently into a ball. Roll dough ball in the sugar on the saucer and then place onto parchment lined baking tray. Space evenly, 12 cookies will fit nicely onto a tray. Put first tray in the oven for 11 minutes. While cookies are in the oven, fill the second tray.
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Cut marshmallows in half so that you end up with 2 circle eyes. Make sure they are ready when the cookie tray comes out of the oven. You will need to immediately place the marshmallow eyes into the cookies while they are still soft.
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Take first tray of cookies out of the oven, immediately place second tray in oven for 11 minutes. Then place marshmallow eyes in first tray of cookies. Let cool on the tray for 5 minutes. Pull parchment paper off of the baking tray onto a cutting board or directly onto the counter. Place mini chocolate chips in the marshmallows while they are still soft. If you put the chips in too soon they will melt, too late and they won’t stick to the marshmallows.
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Once the cookies are cool you can cut smile shapes out of the cookies, don’t go too close to the sides or the cookies will fall apart when you pick them up.
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Let cool, fill a glass of milk and watch the smiles and giggles as kids gobble these cookies up.
Recipe Notes
If your cookies are too big and melt into each other, cut with a round cookie cutter, see post for more directions.
If you wait too long to put the chocolate chips into the marshmallows and they won’t stick, then place the flat side of the chip on the warm cookie tray to melt it just slightly, really just a second and then place on the marshmallow, it’s just like glue.
Don’t want to make your own googly eyes? Then buy candy eyes at your grocery store or Amazon, see post above for sources.
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