Since I love cats, why not make your own black cats cookies? ^^

To start off, you need to prepare the following ingredients.
- 1 or 18.25 ounce box of chocolate cake mix
- 1 of cup chunky peanut butter
- 2 eggs
- 1/3 of cup water
- M&M's candies
- a pack of Red Hots candies

If you have all the ingredients now, let's start cooking.

Step 1:
Preheat oven to 375 F while we'll mix the ingredients all together in a bowl. Put in the peanut butter, the 1/3 cup of water we prepared then the eggs. Mix them well until they blend together well.

Step 2:
Get tiny circles about 1 and 1/2 inches balls from the mixture then let it rest for a while on an ungreased baking sheet.

Step 3:
Using a typical glass (see picture below) flatten the ball. For best results, try to make the force equal when pushing down the glass.


Step 4:
Let's start forming the cat! Pinch the upper part triangularly for the cats ears. Put MnM's candies for its eyes and a piece of Red Hots for its nose. Using a fork or a toothpick, draw two lines on the cheek. This will be the cats whiskers.

Step 5:
Put the cookies into the oven and bake for about 8-10 minutes. After that, let it cool for a while then serve. Enjoy! :)
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Wow, the fingers are too cool! :)

I like doing cupcakes (any flavor will do) and then mashing up oreos to put on top to create "dirt" (you need a very thin layer of frosting for "glue" but don't go too thick because the oreo already makes them sweeter). Then you can either add gummy worms or plastic spiders on top. Kids find them fun without them being too creepy or gross. You can do a similar thing with chocolate pudding in clear cups with oreo crumbs on top. You can also add sugar cookie tombstones.

The absolute cutest though, I think, are the witch hats. You can make them with premade cookies from the store, or you can make sugar cookies and drip melted chocolate on them. Then you add a Hershey's kiss, a little bit of piped frosting for a ribbon, and it's a witch hat. You can see them on the Betty Crocker site, which also has eyeball cookies and other snacks: http://www.craftjr.com/halloween-treats-party-food/

Personally, I would make my life easy and get the store bought cookies, but that's just me :p

Plain ol' sugar cookies are always fun too, because you can make them into whatever you want. We used to make stencils and just cut them out with a knife when the store didn't have what we liked. Kids get a kick out of decorating them and even if they don't look like anything, they taste good!
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If I may, baking and stuff is not my cup of tea, but I do know how to appreciate one. Here is a recipe that my wife took from epicurios website which is both tasty and "haloweeny":)

Ingredients:
* 2 batches decorating icing
* 1 batch sugar cookies, cut out using 3 1/3-inch round or octagonal cookie cutter, baked according to directions in recipe, and cooled completely
* Black food coloring, preferably liquid
* Special equipment: 3 pastry bags fitted with couplers, 2 #3-size (medium, round) decorating tips, 1 #1-size (small, round) decorating tip, small offset spatula, toothpicks

For preparation, please read the rest of the entry here: http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Halloween-Spiderweb-Cookies-240323
Source(s):
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Halloween-Spiderweb-Cookies-24...

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I always enjoy making Viral Sh*t cups since I work in a nursing home.

Make a fudge cake (any kind that is soft), I usually use the store bought box kind.

While it is baking get ready to make fudge pudding.

When the cake is done baking, take it from the oven and set aside. Make the pudding quickly. Now take a fork and "rake" the cake so it crumbled. It should be steaming hot still, so don't use your hands. Now, pour the cake and the pudding into a large bowl and mix. It should look like, well, viral poppy. To add to the effect, pour into those blue "sample collection" cups. Put the lid on and put it in the fridge.

So far, almost no one at work will eat it since it looks so close to what we wipe off hiney's at night during times of sickness :)
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I am not sure where my mother got this recipe, but they are delicious nonetheless. This batch can make up to 7 dozen cookies and can be topped with a cream cheese frosting or a simple icing.

Soft Pumpkin Cookies

1 (15 ounces) can pumpkin, about 1 2/3 cups
4 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup light brown sugar, packed
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
4 eggs
1 cup (8 ounces) butter, softened
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon maple extract
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1/2 teaspoon baking soda

Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Place all ingredients into a large mixing bowl. Beat with electric mixer on low until blended well. Increase the mixing speed to medium for another minute.

Using 2 Tbsp. of batter at a time, place on cookies sheet 2 inches apart. Bake for 18-20 minutes or until golden brown. Immediately remove cookies from cookie sheet and cool on wire racks.

Ice cookies and let icing set before storing in air tight containers. Can be stored for up to a week.

Mine never last that long with my husband and nephews in the house! Enjoy!
Source(s):
Mother's recipe.

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My favorite cookie for any holiday is the basic cut-and-rolled sugar cookies frosted with lots of icing and covered with sprinkles! I use this basic sugar-cookie recipe but I use almond extract in the dough instead of vanilla. I did this one year just because I had almond but was out of vanilla and didn't want to make a trip to the store. Everyone raved about how delicious they were so I've used the almond ever since.

This is the recipe I use. I usually double it because it only makes about a dozen or so when I use my BIG cookie cutters!

2/3 c shortening
3/4 c sugar
1 tsp almond extract (or vanilla, if you prefer)
1 egg
4 tsp milk
2 c all-purpose flour
1-1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt

Cream together the shortening, sugar, and almond extract. Add the egg and beat the mixture until it's fluffy. Stir in the milk. Add the flour, baking powder and salt and blend well.

Put the cookie dough in the frig for about an hour. I like to divide the dough in half and slightly flatten each half between two sheets of wax paper before chilling it; makes it easier to roll out.

Lightly flour the rolling surface and roll the dough out to about 1/8' thickness; cut out shapes and move them to a lightly greased cookie sheet. Bake the cookies in a 375 degree oven for about 8 minutes. For the softest cookies, be careful not to overbake them, but take them out of the oven JUST as the edges start to brown. The center should look a tiny bit underdone, but they'll finish setting up as they're cooling. Let them sit on the cookie sheet to cool before transferring them to a cooling rack.

The secret to keeping these cookies soft is to frost them as soon as they are cool enough, and as soon as the frosting dries, put them in a plastic storage container. I like to put wax paper between the layers so they don't stick together in case the icing is still a bit sticky.

The grandkids love to help me frost and sprinkle the cookies, and although they look a bit messy afterwards they are still delicious! You can use storebought frosting but I usually make my own with 2 c powdered sugar, 1/4 c butter and 1 tsp vanilla. Add a few drops of food coloring appropriate to the holiday and while the frosting is still wet, sprinkle generously with sugar sprinkles or crushed candy. For Halloween cookies, sometimes I stick a few candy corns on top. You could also stick on gummy worms or other small Halloween candies your kids enjoy, or use red hots and licorice laces to make faces on pumpkin-shaped cookies.

If you don't have time to cut and roll cookies, use the same recipe and roll the dough into little balls. Put them on the greased cookie sheet. Smear a bit of shortening on the bottom of a drinking glass, dip the bottom in sugar sprinkles or plain old granulated sugar, and use the glass to flatten the dough balls. Most of the sugar will stick to the cookie; you'll have to regrease the glass after so many to keep the sugar sticking to it.

Happy Halloween!
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I haven't made this one yet but I like this! It's no bake so it's easy!

Scary Eyeball Cookie Recipe

The scary eyeball cookie recipe is another easy no bake creation recipe that blends together Butterfinger candy bars, peanut butter, and white chocolate.

Ingredients
1 cup creamy peanut butter
3 tablespoons salted butter
2 cups powdered sugar
1 Butterfinger candy bar, chopped into pieces
2 cups of white chocolate chips
3 tablespoons shortening
1 pkg. Butterfinger BB's candies
1 small tube red decorator icing
Hardware
Large bowl
Microwave safe bowl
Mixer
Cookie sheet
Wax paper
Toothpicks
Step 1: Line cookie sheet with wax paper; set aside.
Step 2: In a large bowl, with an electric mixer, beat together peanut butter and butter until creamy.
Step 3: Beat in powdered sugar, until mixture is moistened and holds together.
Step 4: Stir in chopped Butterfinger candy bar.
Step 5: Shape into 1-inch size balls (eyeballs) and place on prepared cookie sheet. Freeze for 1 hour.
Step 6: In microwave safe bowl, melt morsels and shortening on medium-high setting until creamy.
Step 7: Remove cookie sheet from freezer. Using a toothpick, dip eyeballs into white chocolate. Let excess drip off, then return to cookie sheet.
Step 8: Press 1 Butterfinger BB onto top of each eyeball to form pupil.
Step 9: Refrigerate eyeballs until chocolate is set. With tube of red decorator icing, pipe lines from pupil to create bloodshot markings.
Step 10: Store covered in refrigerator, serve cold.

Makes about 30 eyeballs.

Happy Halloween!!!
Source(s):
http://www.kicked-up-cookie-recipes.com/scary-eyeball-cookie-recipe.html

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Oreo turkey!

Oreos
Frosting
Candy Corn
Whoppers
red hots

See results :)
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