Halloween cat cookies complete with coconut whiskers make for an easy decorating project for kids, and a fun treat for a themed party!
Halloween Cat Cookies
- Prep Time 45 min
- Total 45 min
- Servings 20
- Ingredients 14
Ingredients
Cookies
- 1 3/4 cups Gold Medal™ flour
- 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 package (3 oz) Jell-O™ orange-flavored gelatin
- 1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1/2 cup buttermilk
- 1 teaspoon grated orange peel
Decorations
- 3/4 cup Betty Crocker™ Rich & Creamy dark chocolate frosting (from 16-oz container)
- 40 green mini candy-coated milk chocolate candies
- 10 orange mini candy-coated milk chocolate candies, cut in half
- About 2 tablespoons shredded coconut (120 shreds)
- 1 pouch (7 oz) Betty Crocker™ Cookie Icing red icing
Make With
Gold Medal Flour
Instructions
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Step1Heat oven to 350°F. Line cookie sheets with cooking parchment paper. In a medium bowl, stir together flour, baking soda, salt and gelatin; set aside. In separate medium bowl, beat butter and sugar with electric mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy. Add egg; beat until blended. Beat in flour mixture alternately with buttermilk on low speed, half of each at a time, until soft dough forms. Stir in orange peel.
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Step2Onto lined cookie sheets, drop dough by rounded tablespoonfuls 2 inches apart. Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until bottoms are golden brown. Cool 1 to 2 minutes; remove from cookie sheets to cooling racks. Cool completely before decorating.
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Step3To Decorate Cookies: Into 1-pint resealable food-storage plastic bag, add chocolate frosting; reseal bag. Cut 1/8-inch opening diagonally across bottom corner of bag. Pipe cat face onto center of cookies, smoothing out frosting with small spatula as necessary. For each cookie, press into frosting 2 green milk chocolate candies for eyes, 1 orange milk chocolate candy half for nose and 6 coconut shreds for whiskers. Using chocolate frosting, pipe thin line down center of green candies, creating pupils for eyes. Using red icing, pipe on mouth. Store in airtight container.
Nutrition
180
Calories
7g
Total Fat
2g
Protein
26g
Total Carbohydrate
16g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Cookie
- Calories
- 180
- Calories from Fat
- 70
- Total Fat
- 7g
- 11%
- Saturated Fat
- 4g
- 20%
- Trans Fat
- 1g
- Cholesterol
- 25mg
- 8%
- Sodium
- 200mg
- 8%
- Potassium
- 55mg
- 2%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 26g
- 9%
- Dietary Fiber
- 0g
- 0%
- Sugars
- 16g
- Protein
- 2g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 4%
- 4%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 0%
- 0%
- Iron
- 4%
- 4%
Exchanges:
1/2 Starch; 0 Fruit; 1 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 1 1/2 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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