Boo! I'm a cookie.

Welcome to October. The month of spooky and scary things. Why should things that are sweet and sugar filled be any different?

 

I cannot take credit for this fabulous and funny (wow, there are so many adjectives in this post already) cookie. Let me be the first, if not second to introduce you to Pinterest. Pinterest is like Facebook with fun photos of DIY projects, food, drinks, quotes, clothes, dream kitchens, and anything you can think of! And it is pretty much boy free, which is kind of fun. I am obsessed and have logged a zillion hours on the site so far and I encourage you to do the same. Here is one of the easy (yet BRILLIANT) home projects I did that I found on Pinterest. Common sense but, man! That is sweet. I got the hooks/pull tabs from Target and hung 2 - 3 cups/spoons on each. Perfect and saves so much room. Love it.

 

 

Onto the haunting goodness. This recipe is crazy easy because well I gave myself a break. No homemade dough, icing or marshmallows. If you've got that kind of time on your hands, I tip my hat to you and will be calling you later to help me do laundry, sweep, mop, dust, redecorate my living room (which I'm at a loss - really if anyone has time and a good eye I could use some help), make the bed, organize my cabinets...you get the point.

 

 

Things you'll need to have to make the goodness -

• Sugar Cookie mix (Betty Crocker, eat your heart out)
• Vanilla Icing
• Marshmallows
• An egg
• 1/3 cup of butter
• Black icing
• For rolling purposes

 

So make the sugar cookie mix and roll the dough out on a floured surface - about 1/4 of an inch thick. You don't need a perfect circle (you'll see why in a minute...hold your horses) but I like a nice juice glass to make circles for these cookies.

 

 

Preheat the oven to 375.

 

Okay, so no one's perfect, right? And since this is such a soul bearing blog I thought I'd throw these out there. Ashamed? No. Annoyed? Yes. Tried to eat them anyway? Hell, yeah. Ew.

A few reasons I think this happened -

1.  I rushed. I tried having to pans of cookies in the oven at once and maaaaay have left the cookies on the bottom rack on a bit to long. Patience is a big part of baking I'm finding out.
2. I sprayed the aluminum foil with cooking spray that is 'Butter' based...that can't be helpful, right?
3. Listen to the timer. It beeped and I was rolling out dough for the next round. "Eh, a bit more time never hurts," continues to roll dough like a fool. A FOOL!

Moving on! So once the cookies (non-burnt and delicious) are cooled spoon some icing into a dish and microwave it for about 8 seconds. Using the back of a spoon spread the icing on the cookie and again I like that this wasn't smooth and in a shape. Have you ever seen a ghost who is a perfect circle...bet not. Also, taken the marshmallows and pinch them in half. Before you stick the marshmallow on paint the face on with a toothpick. It is was easier than trying to paint a face on something with a body.

 

 

Oh. My. Gosh. How stinkin' cute is that?! Oh. I mean terrifying. Very scary....and adorable! I got board with ghosts after awhile and tried my hand at cobwebs. The cobwebs on the right were first attempts, cookies on the left are better. The trick was to do the circles first and then the lines from the middle sweeping out. Fun. Fun. Fun.

 

 

I have a few other Halloween inspired desserts in the calendar. Also, I get to visit some of my lovely friends new babies this week and next and you know I'm not going empty handed - I have to win love some way and it might as well be with sugar, flour and butter. A lot more to come.

 

Yum...er Boo!,

Laura