Bloodsucking vampire sandwich cookies are frightfully delicious and super easy to make. Mini marshmallows and slivered almonds are sandwiched between two halves of one chocolate chip cookie bound together with a smear of red frosting!
Why this recipe works
Vampire sandwich cookies, Dracula’s dentures, whichever you call them, know they’ll bring a ghastly good time to your Halloween baking experience! These vampire cookies couldn’t be any easier to make with premade cookie dough, mini marshmallows, slivered almonds, and vanilla frosting colored with red food dye.
Ingredients you will need
Get all measurements, ingredients, and instructions in the printable version at the end of this post.
Ingredient Info and Substitution Suggestions
COOKIE – It’s completely up to you whether you’d like to use a homemade chocolate chip cookie dough for this recipe or simply use a store-bought tube of premade dough. You can certainly change up what kind of cookie you use, it doesn’t have to be strictly chocolate chip. Peanut butter cookies or oatmeal cookies would taste just as good!
DECORATION – For the teeth, you’ll use mini marshmallows as well as slivered almonds for the vampire fangs. The frosting will help bind the marshmallows and the almonds to the cookie while giving off a creepy bloodsucking appearance.
How to Make Vampire Sandwich Cookies
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- Preheat the oven to 350F. Line 2 large baking trays with silpat liners or parchment paper. Scoop the cookie dough into 1.5-tablespoon sized balls and arrange them on the prepared baking trays.
- Bake the cookies until they are golden along the outside, about 12 to 15 minutes, rotating the trays once halfway through.
- Let the cookies cool on the trays for 10 minutes and then use a thin metal spatula to transfer the cookies to a wire rack to finish cooling.
- Finish cooking the remaining cookie dough the same way.
- Mix together the vanilla frosting, red gel food coloring in a large bowl. Add more red or blue coloring to achieve your desired color.
- Cut each cookie in half. Spread each half with frosting.
- For half of the cookies, arrange 6 mini marshmallows along the curved side, and place 1 mini marshmallow on the straight side. Top with the other frosted cookie halves.
- Place 2 slivered almonds in the teeth for each set of dentures to create fangs. (It helps to dip 1 side of each slivered almond in frosting first to help it stick.)
Frequently Asked Questions & Expert Tips
Yes, I would recommend making them the morning of, but to save some time you can make them a day in advance. After your vampire sandwich cookies are assembled, store them in a single layer either in a ziptop bag or an air-tight container in a cool dry place or in the refrigerator if you live in a humid area.
Serving Suggestions
Your Halloween party guests will get a kick out of these vampire sandwich cookies. You can use these Dracula dentures as a party favor by simply wrapped them in a cellophane baggie. Keep and serve your vampire cookies at room temperature in a dry, cool place.
More Halloween Recipes
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Vampire Sandwich Cookies
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Print It Rate ItIngredients
- 30 oz chocolate chip cookie dough 1 tube
- 16 oz vanilla frosting
- 2 Tbsp red gel food coloring more as needed
- 2 ½ cups mini marshmallows
- 2 Tbsp slivered almonds
Things You’ll Need
Before You Begin
- To make larger “dentures” simply make larger cookies. Note that you may need to adjust the cook time, and you will need more mini marshmallows.
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350F. Line 2 large baking trays with silpat liners or parchment paper. Scoop the cookie dough into 1.5-tablespoon sized balls and arrange them on the prepared baking trays.
- Bake the cookies until they are golden along the outside, about 12 to 15 minutes, rotating the trays once halfway through.
- Let the cookies cool on the trays for 10 minutes and then use a thin metal spatula to transfer the cookies to a wire rack to finish cooling.
- Finish cooking the remaining cookie dough the same way.
- Mix together the vanilla frosting and red gel food coloring in a large bowl. Add more red coloring to achieve your desired color.
- Cut each cookie in half. Spread each half with frosting.
- For half of the cookies, arrange 6 mini marshmallows along the curved side, and place 1 mini marshmallow on the straight side. Top with the other frosted cookie halves.
- Place 2 slivered almonds in the teeth for each set of dentures to create fangs. (It helps to dip 1 side of each slivered almond in frosting first to help it stick.)
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TisaRae says
Made these with snickerdoodle bc they look like flesh. Came out looking great but not tasty. For kids, the chocolate chips would be better…like smores.
Amanda Davis says
Strange, they are very tasty usually! Did yu roll them in sugar as the recipe suggests?
Sam says
I don’t know… They look more like “Dentist Sandwich Cookies” to me! 😊
Karen says
With the addition of your Vampire Sandwich cookie, I now have a large enough variety to give a “You’ve Been Boo’d” tray of goodies to the neighbors. Thanks so much. And keep them coming.