Kids will have fun fashioning frightening felines featuring chocolate cookies and candy decorations.
Scary Cat Cookies
- Prep Time 30 min
- Total 1 hr 15 min
- Servings 15
- Ingredients 10
Ingredients
- 3 oz semisweet baking chocolate
- 1 cup butter, softened (do not use margarine)
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 2 1/4 cups Gold Medal™ all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 egg
- Betty Crocker™ yellow candy sprinkles
- 15 miniature candy-coated chocolate baking bits
- 1 package pull-apart yellow licorice twists, cut into 1-inch pieces
- 1 package pull-apart pink licorice twists, cut into bits

Make With
Gold Medal Flour
Instructions
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Step1Heat oven to 350°F. Grease cookie sheets with shortening.
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Step2In small saucepan, melt chocolate over low heat, stirring constantly. In large bowl, beat butter and sugar with electric mixer on medium speed, or mix with spoon. Stir in melted chocolate, flour, vanilla and egg.
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Step3Shape dough into 30 (1-inch) balls. Pull a little bit of dough from each of 15 balls to make tails; set aside. Cut about 1/4-inch slit in same balls, using scissors. Separate dough at slit for cat's ears. Place balls about 2 inches apart on cookie sheets.
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Step4Place remaining balls below each cat head on cookie sheets for body. Shape small pieces of dough into 15 (2 1/2-inch-long) ropes. Place end of rope under each body.
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Step5Bake 12 to 14 minutes or until set. Remove from cookie sheets to cooling racks. Cool 30 minutes.
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Step6Use sprinkles to make eyes and baking bits to make noses. Add yellow licorice pieces for whiskers. Add pink licorice for tongues.
Nutrition
250
Calories
15g
Total Fat
3g
Protein
27g
Total Carbohydrate
11g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Cookie
- Calories
- 250
- Calories from Fat
- 130
- Total Fat
- 15g
- 22%
- Saturated Fat
- 9g
- 45%
- Trans Fat
- 1/2g
- Cholesterol
- 45mg
- 16%
- Sodium
- 100mg
- 4%
- Potassium
- 50mg
- 1%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 27g
- 9%
- Dietary Fiber
- 0g
- 0%
- Sugars
- 11g
- Protein
- 3g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 8%
- 8%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 0%
- 0%
- Iron
- 6%
- 6%
Exchanges:
1 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; 2 1/2 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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