Thoroughly cream margarine. Add sugar to margarine and blend
until light. Add vanilla. Add egg; beat until fluffy. Stir in
milk. In another bowl put flour, baking powder and salt; blend
with a whisk or a spoon until thoroughly mixed. Gradually add
flour mixture to creamed mixture; blend well. Scoop dough out
onto plastic wrap, cover with wrap and press down to make a
thick, flat round. Chill in refrigerator over-night.
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
Cut batch of dough in half; keep one half in refrigerator while
working with the other half. On a well floured surface, using a
floured rolling pin, roll dough to between 1/8-inch and
1/4-inch. Use a 2-inch biscuit cutter or round cookie cutter to
make cookies. Place on cookie sheet greased with butter-flavored
shortening, if possible (otherwise, regular flavor shortening).
Bake for 6 to 8 minutes or until lightly browned around the
edges. Cool on wire rack. Repeat with remaining dough. Store in
airtight container until you are ready to spread them with
frosting and decorate. Spread frosting on cookies; then make
Jack-o-lantern faces using colorful small candies or icing gel
in a tube. Makes about two dozen cookies. 2/3 cup Margarine 3/4
cup Granulated sugar 1 teaspoon Vanilla 1 large Egg 4 teaspoons
Milk 2 cup All-purpose flour 1 1/2 teaspoons Baking powder 1/4
teaspoon Salt See Frosting Recipes
2. Cat Cookies
Spread the black frosting on the cookie (see recipe above), try
to make the frosting in the shape of a cat. Place the two green
M&M's on as the eyes. Place the red M&M on as the nose. Cut the
licorice into small pieces (about 1.5 inchs) and place them on
as whiskers. Put a small amount of the frosting on the bottom of
(2) candy corns and place them on the top of the cookie as the
ears.
Sugar Cookies Candy Corn Black Licorice Black Frosting (top
recipe) Green and Red M&M's.
3. Ghost Cookies
Using peanut shaped cookies or round cookies, spread with white
frosting or marshmellow fluff. Shape like a ghost. Add chocolate
chips for eyes and nose.
Peanut Shaped Cookies (NutterButters) White Frosting (or
Marshmallow Fluff) Chocolate Chips.
4. Finger Cookies
So easy! Use the recipe above for cookies as you would do
usually. Now have the yungsters roll the ccokie dough into 3
inch sections. Insert an almond in the end of the cookie to make
it look like a fingernail. Bake as usual.
Sugar Cookie Recipe (above) Almonds
5. Bat Cookies
Use a serrated knife to carefully cut 18 of the cookies into
quarters. Save remaining cookies for another use. For each bat,
place 2 cookie quarters 1/4" apart on waxed paper. Repeat with
remaining quarters. Melt candy melts. Drop about 1/2 teaspoon of
melted candy at center of each bat, connecting cookies. Use a
toothpick to smooth m elted candy into a uniform circle. Cool
completely before removing from waxed paper.
9 oz Chocolate wafer cookies 4 oz Milk chocolate candy melts
6. Witch Hat Cookies
(Easy - no bake)
Take Oreo or any chocolate cookies and place them down on wax
paper. Place an unwrapped Hershey's kiss on the middle of the
cookie attaching it with a dab of frosting. With colored
frosting (red, orange or green, make a ring around the candy
kiss with a ribbon in front.
7. R.I.P. Cookies
Take a premade (store bought) oval sandwhich cookie and write
the letters "R.I.P." on it with icing in a tube. Any color will
do. Let the icing dry a bit on the cookies. Insert the cookie
partially into a cupcake that has been pre frosted with green
frosting to make it look like a lawn. You can decorate the cup
cake with candy pumpkins if you like, and add licorice sticks to
look like trees.
8. Monster Cookies
Each person creates their own monster cookie by making a face on
an oatmeal cookie (can be precooked or store bought cookies) by
using candy corn, chocolate chips, marshmallows, raisins, etc.
Place the cookies on a cookie sheet and place in a hot oven just
long enough for the faces to melt. This creates truly monstrous
faces.
Things you can use.
Any Cookies Candy Corn Chocolate Chips Marshmallows Raisins
Coconut Gumy candies
9. Eyeball Cookies
These cookies were made by adding red icing in a tube to store
bought sugar cookies to give a blood shot eye effect. A half of
a red cherry was placed on top in the middleof each cookie.
About The Author: Nikki B Vaughn
I'AM A COLLEGE STUDENT AT WCCS IN SELMA .AL
