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Beginner Bat and Cat Cookies

Beginner Bat and Cat Cookies

From Pillsbury

Beginner Bat and Cat Cookies

Ingredients

  1. 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 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 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 onto body of each with frosting; squeeze a dot of black decorating gel in 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.

Makes 16 cookies.

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