It doesn't get more festive and fun than halloween chocolate mousse with tombstone sugar cookies! They're the perfect spooky treat for parties and kids of all ages. They're also easy to make ahead and store, and they're ready in just over an hour!
Ingredients
Chocolate Mousse
6ounceschocolate chips
1cupheavy cream
Tombstone Cookies
6tablespoonsbutter, at room temperature
½ cupgranulated sugar
1largeegg
½ teaspoonvanilla extract
1 ¼ cupsall-purpose flour
1 ½ teaspoonsbaking powder
1teaspoon poppy seeds
½ teaspoonsalt
Black decorating gel
Assemble
¼ cupOreo cookie crumbs
Instructions
Chocolate Mousse
Heat the chocolate and ½ cup of the cream in a large-sized bowl in your microwave, stirring after each 20-second interval, until the chocolate is melted. Set aside until it is cool to the touch, about 10 minutes.
6 ounces chocolate chips
Beat the remaining ½ cup of cream using an electric beater until stiff peaks form.
Gently fold the whipped cream into the cooled chocolate. Divide the mousse between 6 small jars.
Tombstone Cookies
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. In a medium-sized bowl cream together the butter, sugar, egg, and vanilla using an electric mixer.
6 tablespoons butter, ½ cup granulated sugar, 1 large egg, ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
In another medium-sized bowl, whisk the flour, baking powder, poppy seeds, and salt.
1 ¼ cups all-purpose flour, 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder, 1 teaspoon poppy seeds, ½ teaspoon salt
Slowly add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix until combined.
Roll out half the dough ½ inch thick on a lightly floured surface. Cut out tombstone shapes, making the tombstones slightly pointed at the bottom end to help them hold in place the mousse. You will have more dough than you need for the tombstones so make Halloween cut-out cookies from the remaining dough.
Bake on cookie sheets for 6-8 minutes, or until lightly browned on the bottom. Remove from the oven and cool completely. Once the cookies are completely cool, use a black gel decorating pen to draw RIP on the top of each tombstone cookie.
Assemble
Scoop about 1 teaspoon of cookie crumbs on top of each chocolate mousse and place a tombstone cookie in each.
¼ cup Oreo cookie crumbs
Notes
The nutritional information is calculated for the chocolate mousse only and not the cookies.