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Bat and Cat Cookies

Creepy or cute, Halloween cookies are fun to decorate and Pillsbury® cookie dough makes them fast and easy.

Ingredients

• 1 roll (16.5 oz) Pillsbury® refrigerated sugar cookies
• 1 container (1 lb) vanilla creamy ready-to-spread frosting
• Orange gel food color
• 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 1/2 cup of frosting; tint remaining frosting with orange gel food color. Frost 8 cookies with white frosting. Frost 8 cookies with orange frosting. Place remaining orange frosting in Ziploc® Brand Storage 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 onto body of each with frosting; squeeze a dot of black decorating gel in middle of eyes. 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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