Best Tombstone Cookie Pops Recipes

TOMBSTONE COOKIE POPS

Steps:

• In medium bowl, stir cookie mix, flour, butter and egg until dough forms. Shape dough into a ball; flatten slightly. Wrap dough in plastic wrap; refrigerate 1 hour or until firm.
• Heat oven to 375°F. Unwrap dough. On lightly floured surface, roll dough to 1/4-inch thickness. Cut with 3-inch tombstone-shaped cookie cutter. On ungreased cookie sheet, place cutouts 2 inches apart. Insert craft stick halfway into center of each cookie.
• Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until edges are lightly browned. Cool 5 minutes; remove from cookie sheet to cooling rack. Cool completely.
• Spread chocolate frosting on cookies. Attach plain tip to tube of green icing; pipe grass along bottom edge of tombstones. Remove plain tip from green icing; attach to tube of white icing. Pipe RIP in center of each tombstone.

SHORTBREAD TOMBSTONES

Steps:

• Cream the butter and sugar until smooth. Add the flour and salt and work the mixture with your fingers or a pastry blender until all the flour is incorporated. Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and chill in the refrigerator for 2-3 hours.
• When you're ready to bake, preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. On a lightly floured surface, roll half the dough until it's 1/4-inch thick. Using a small knife, cut out rectangular or slightly rounded tombstone shapes, about 3 inches tall. Place on an ungreased baking sheet. Roll and cut the second half of the dough, and place the baking sheets in the refrigerator for 10 minutes. You can gather together scraps and re-roll them.
• Bake for 15-20 minutes, until the shortbread is very lightly golden. Do not let the cookies brown. Remove to a wire rack and cool.
• When the cookies are completely cool, melt the chocolate chips in the microwave in a heatproof bowl for 1 minutes. The chips may look unmelted, but stir them with a spoon to see if they have actually softened before putting them in for another minute, if necessary.
• Spoon the melted chocolate into a zipper-lock bag. Seal the bag, pressing out any air. Use a toothpick to make a very tiny hole in one corner of the bag to release a thin stream of chocolate for writing. Decorate tombstones with crosses and RIP or other writing as desired. Allow the chocolate to set before stacking the cookies.

HALLOWEEN TOMBSTONE TREATS

Steps:

• 1. In large saucepan over low heat, melt butter.Stir in marshmallows until completely melted. Remove from heat. Stir in cereal til well-coated. (*I used 6 1/2 cups because I think they come out less dry.And they hold up better if they have to sit out for awhile). The original recipe called for 7 1/2, but what I used worked out really well!). Press into a greased 13x9x2 pan with a buttered spatula or just your hands. Cool.
• 2. In large mixing bowl, beat cookie dough and flour til well mixed.(*You do have to add the flour, otherwise that store-bought dough is really awful -- very sticky!). On a lightly-floured surface, roll dough into a 6" x 16" rectangle. Cut into 16 small rectangles. 2 rows of 8. Each one being 3" x 2". You can trim tops (2" side)with a paring knife to resemble the top of a tombstone cutting an arch if desired. Place each tombstone onto ugreased baking sheets 2" apart.
• 3. Bake cookies at 350º for 8-10 minutes or until edges are golden brown.(*Mine took 13-14 minutes.)But mine were probably a little thicker than the original recipe. It had said to roll out and hand-cut each cookie with a paring knife around a waxed paper pattern -- (Cutting them into rectangles from a large rectangle was MUCH easier! And made more sense to me.)Then just simply trim the tops to whatever shape/style you want. Remove to wire racks to cool.
• 4. In large plastic ziploc bag, combine water and green food coloring. Add coconut, seal bag shut, and shake to coat. Toast coconut if desired or use as is, set aside.
• 5. Using black gel, tint frosting gray. (*I used one whole small tube and it was barely gray, but ok. I think a tiny bit of black paste food coloring would work better and be more economical which is what I'll do next time). Frost cookies, decorate tombstones with more black gel. (*The black gel for writing didn't work for me! I had to scrape it off, refrost the ones I wrecked, and just used chocolate frosting instead for the writing part. That worked perfectly for me.).
• 6. Cut cereal bars into 3"x2" rectangles. Spread with melted chocolate chips. (*I didn't do this, I just used frosting instead.)
• 7. Pipe a thick bead of melted chocolate chips on wide edge and hold in place til set. Or do on waxed paper, which is how I ended up doing most of them once I got the hang of it, and lay them down with the cookie pressed against it so you don't have to hold it. Refrigerate til set.(20-30 minutes was all it took.) Remove from waxed paper carefully. (*I then opted to use the rest of the chocolate frosting to frost the tops of the exposed rice crispy treats part. Pressed the pumpkin into the frosting, then sprinkled with coconut.)Decorate with coconut for "grass", and candy pumpkins. Makes 16 "Tombstones". You can change the directions for however it works best for you! You can sub premade cookies, also, for extra ease.
• 8. *To make these go even faster, bake the cookies and decorate them the day before. Have a Happy Halloween!