Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Halloween Treats

In the spirit of the soon to come Halloween, we want you all to take a look at this great bat and cat recipe. It is easy and the results are definitely appealing, so make sure to give it a try! 

Ingredients:
1 roll (16.5 oz) refrigerated sugar cookie dough
1 container (1 lb) vanilla creamy ready-to-spread frosting 
Orange gel food coloring
Black string licorice
32 green miniature candy-coated semisweet chocolate baking bits
1 tube (0.68 oz) black decorating gel
24 miniature semisweet chocolate chips

Directions:
1. Heat oven to 350 F. Make and cool cookies as directed.
2. Remove half a cup of frosting; ting remaining frosting with orange gel food color. Frost 8 cookies with white frosting. Frost 8 cookies with orange frosting. Place remaining orange frosting in food-storage plastic bag, and cut small hole in 1 corner.
3. For bats, use white-frosted cookies. Place 1-inch spiral of string licorice in center of each cookie for body. Pipe wings on sides of body with orange frosting. For eyes, attach 2 green baking bits into body of each with frosting; squeeze a dot of black decorating gel in the middle of each eye. Place 2 miniature chocolate chips on each for ears. 
4. For cats, use orange-frosted cookies. Unroll and separate string licorice; place pieces of string licorice on cookies to look like ears and whiskers. Attach 2 green baking bits to each for eyes and 1 miniature chocolate chip for nose. 

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