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Just 3 ingredients to make these creepy fun Bandaid Cookies. They make a cute treat for Halloween or April Fool’s Day. Kids and adults will laugh and cringe at these easy to make cookies!
Perfect for a kid’s Halloween party. You can even have the kids make them at the party, so it’s a craft and a treat at the same time. Just put all the ingredients and tools out, and let the kids have at it. Tarantula Cookies and Candy Bugs are other fun Halloween projects to make with the kids.
But don’t stop at just Halloween parties. Movie Night, especially if you’re going to watch a scary movie. These no bake no cook treats would even be fun for a get well treat.
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How to make
These creepy dirty or bloody Bandage cookies start with simple vanilla crème wafer cookies, that are decorated with perfectly edible frosting and jam.
The Great Value brand from Walmart is a good option for these, because the color is close to the average bandaid color. Plus, you can make a lot of cookies very cheaply. Win-win!
Lay the cookies out on parchment paper, a plate, or a rimmed baking tray.
Using a butter knife, place about ¼ teaspoon white frosting directly in the middle of each cookie. Gently spread it to make a square about 1-inch in size. You can use the lines on the cookie to line up your square.
If you don’t want to go the butter knife route, you can also place the frosting in a plastic bag and cut the corner tip of the bag off to pipe a square onto the middle of each cookie. Use an offset spatula to spread it out evenly.
Place a small dot of jelly right in the middle of the frosted square. You don’t need to wait for the frosting to dry to add the jelly.
There’s no set amount or jelly that you have to do, but you don’t want the jelly to overwhelm the frosting; make it look like a dot of blood on a bandaid.
Buy the jelly in those squeezable jars and you don’t even have to worry about a spoon!
Serve the cookies immediately.
Can I use something other than strawberry jelly?
Any seedless red jelly or jam will work for these.
You can also use red food gel used for decorating or writing on cakes or strawberry syrup (it’ll be a little thinner) for the blood spot.
Red candy melts will also work, just melt them and place a small dollop on top. Or you could tint white candy melts with red food coloring for the same effect.
Other changes to the recipe
Change up the wafer. Different brands will have different color tints. Use a chocolate wafer cookie for a darker colored bandage.
And you can change the white square – instead of using frosting, try marshmallow fluff or white chocolate or white candy melts.
How to store
These really don’t keep well, so only make enough that will be eaten. The cookie will become wet and soft when left with frosting on it for too long.
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Recipe
Bandaid Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 can white frosting
- 1 package vanilla creme wafer cookies
- ½ cup strawberry jelly
Instructions
- Lay the cookies out on parchment paper, a plate, or a rimmed baking tray.
- Using a butter knife, place about ¼ teaspoon white frosting directly in the middle of each cookie. Gently spread it to make a square about 1-inch in size. You can use the lines on the cookie to line up your square.
- Place a small dot of strawberry jelly right in the middle of the frosted square.
- There’s no set amount or jelly that you have to do, but you don’t want the jelly to consume the frosting. You want to make it look like a dot of blood on a bandaid.
- Serve the cookies immediately.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutritional information is based on third-party calculations, and should be considered estimates. Actual nutritional content will vary based on brands used, measuring methods, portion sizes, and more.
Debi
These are so much fun to make & if you can bring yourself to eat them, they are yummy! lol Great Halloween treat! Debi, author, Life Currents