I prefer to use the Oreo Thins when I’m making these Oreo witch hats. The Oreo is the base of the hat, so you want to keep it proportional to the Hershey’s Kisses, which will be the top of the hat. A regular sized Oreo will just be too big.

Of course, if all you can find are regular sized Oreos, they’ll taste fine.

You don’t have to use Oreo cookies in to make this Halloween cookie recipe. I mean, if you don’t use Oreos, it won’t look like our cookies. But, you could use whatever round, chocolate, packaged cookies you’d like. Keebler Fudge Stripe Cookies are a good option, just turn them upside down so the chocolate side is up.

Of course, if you have a great recipe for homemade chocolate cookies, you could use that too. But, we wanted to keep these simple treats as easy and unintimidating as possible. 

Any flavor of Hershey’s kisses will work. They’re all a milk chocolate flavor, though, so they’ll be a little lighter than your cookie. The exception to this is dark chocolate kisses.

Personally, I used the new Milklicious Hershey’s Kisses in these. They have a milk chocolate filling, which makes them — and in turn, your cookies — a little more interesting.

I like using candy melts because they’re so forgiving. You can’t overmelt them, like you can with chocolate chips. And if they harden while you’re working, you can just reheat them.

If you’d prefer, you could use orange candy melts or chocolate or vanilla almond bark. Any of those would work.

I don’t suggest using frosting because the sprinkles won’t stick as well to frosting and you’ll end up with a mess.

I’m obsessed with using piping bags and tips, so I’ll look for any excuse to use them. They’re so convenient. And the piping bags I have are reusable, so they’re super eco friendly.

If you don’t have one, you can cut off the corner of a ziptop plastic bag and use that to pipe the chocolate instead. I did that for a long time before buying piping bags and tips.

You definitely want to use festive sprinkles in Halloween colors for these cookies.

I use confetti sprinkles. The flat sprinkles take up a bunch of space, making a really colorful ring around the hat. Confetti sprinkles come in a variety of colors, but the Halloween color make the most sense. The rod-shaped sprinkles (called Jimmies) work well too.

I wouldn’t suggest using sugar pearls because those can hurt someone’s teeth, especially if there are a bunch of them covering the cookie. And nonpareils (the tiny round circles) are small, so you need a lot of them to cover the rim of the hat.

I cover my baking sheet with a silicone baking mat. You don’t need to, but it’s just easier for clean up because you can just wash the silicone baking mat instead of washing the baking tray.

I always line my baking sheet with a silicone baking mat rather than parchment paper because it’s reusable, which is more frugal and sustainable. You can build your cookies straight on a cookie sheet, though.

Store the cookies in an airtight container on the counter until you’re ready to serve them. You don’t need to refrigerate them.