Halloween Candy Dessert

 Wondering what to do with all of that leftover candy from Halloween?  You can make these Halloween Candy Cupcakes,  eat the extra candy (that is what RT is planning on doing),  or you could make this Halloween Candy Dessert.

I put RT in charge of Halloween candy this year.  He purchased (several) extra bags of his favorite candy this year.  We didn't have a huge Trick or Treater turn out this year, so, instead of returning the unused bags of candy or donating the unopened bags of candy, RT has squirrelled them away.  Every once in awhile I catch him snacking on candy bars.  

I found this recipe here and stole a few of RT's candy bars (don't tell him!) and decided to make this dessert in our cast iron skillet.   The cookie was very tasty.  I did make the mistake of leaving the cookie in the oven for 35 minutes which resulted in a dry cookie.  I would suggest checking your cookie at 25 minutes. 

Here's the recipe:

Halloween Candy Dessert

ingredients:

1 cup butter, room temperature

coconut oil, to grease the cast iron skillet

3 cups flour

1 TBSP baking powder

1/2 tsp salt

1/2 cup sugar

1/4 cup brown sugar

3 eggs at room temperature

2 tsp vanilla

2 cups chopped candy (chocolate bars, M&M's, etc.)

1 tsp sea salt

directions:

Oven 350F.  Grease cast iron skillet with coconut oil

Whisk flour, baking powder and salt in bowl.  Set aside.

In separate bowl, cream butter and sugars.  Add eggs one at a time.  Then beat in vanilla.

Add flour mixture to liquid mixture and mix until the dough comes together.  Mix in chopped candy.

Scrape the dough into the skillet and sprinkle with sea salt.  Now is the time to add extra chopped pieces of candy to the top of the cookie.

Bake for 30 minutes.  Cookie should be slightly underdone in the center.  

Remove from oven and allow to cool for 10 minutes before serving.

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I lowered the amounts of sugar.  If you feel you need more sugar, you can look at the original recipe.

Feel free to grease your skillet with butter (or oil of choice).

This would make a great birthday cookie/cake.  You can serve it with ice cream.

Enjoy!