Crazy Colorful Candy Board with Surprise Cookies
For Purim or any time you want a treat for the kids (or, let’s face it, also the adults!), this fun candy board with surprise cookies will be sure to please everyone!
Make this candy board and every kid will love you. Not so sure about the adults, though…
Jokes aside, candy boards are great to serve on Purim or at a Friday night oneg, a birthday party, a family get-together — okay, just about any occasion works!
Boards of all kinds have been popular for a while now, and it’s so much fun to get creative with arranging different foods on a board. The best part about making boards is that there are really no set rules. You can put on whatever you want, arrange it however you want, anything goes!
For a candy board, if you don’t it to be straight sugar and junk, you can add some healthier options, like dried or cut-up fresh fruit or even crackers or flatbreads. However you do it, remember to have fun!
Directions for Candy Board with Surprise Cookies
- Bake surprise cookies (see recipe below). If you want a simpler cookie, you can (of course!) use any kind. Here’s a link to my basic chocolate chip cookies.
- Stock up on your favorite candy!
- Take a big “board.” It can be round, square, a platter, a cookie sheet, anything you can find in the house! (I once used a wooden insert from a puzzle!)
- Start with the cookies, using them as a base. Line them up in a zigzag pattern down the middle.
- Add a small bowl with loose candies near the row of cookies. This will help anchor in the rest of the candy.
- Fill in the rest of the board with different types of candy in rows or sections.
- If you don’t want to do all candy, you can also add other small cookies or even some cut-up fruit or crackers for people who don’t want a sugar overload. There are really no rules—just have fun!
Watch me make this candy board here!
Surprise Cookies
Ingredients
Cookies:
- ½ cup oil
- ½ cup brown sugar
- ½ cup sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 2 eggs
- 2 cups flour
- ½ tsp baking soda
Filling:
- Square of chocolate, candy-coated chips, crushed Lotus cookies, chocolate chips, crushed chocolate-covered pretzels, crushed Viennese crunch, nonpareils, etc.
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F and line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.
- Place all cookie dough ingredients in a mixing bowl. Mix by hand until combined.
- Take a spoonful of dough and make an indentation, kind of like a thumbprint. Add desired filling (that’s the surprise!) and then seal the cookie dough around it.
- Roll cookies in colored sprinkles and place on prepared cookie sheet. Bake for 12 minutes (they will harden as they cool).
Recipe by Faigy Murray | https://mykitchenmystudio.com/candy-board-with-surprise-cookies/
