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Black Cat Cookies
Our children look forward to helping me bake these cute cat cookies each year. They've become experts at making the faces with candy corn and Red-Hots. —Kathy Stock, Levasy, Missouri
12 Servings
Prep: 25 min. Bake: 10 min.
Ingredients
1 cup butter, softened
2 cups sugar
2 eggs
3 teaspoons vanilla extract
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup baking cocoa
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
24 wooden craft
or
Popsicle sticks
48 candy corn candies
24 red-hot candies
Directions
In a bowl, cream butter and sugar. Beat in eggs and vanilla. Combine
the flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt; gradually add
to the creamed mixture. Roll dough into 1-1/2-in. balls. Place 3 in.
apart on lightly greased baking sheets.
Insert a wooden stick into each cookie. Flatten with a glass dipped
in sugar. Pinch top of cookie to form ears. For whiskers, press a
fork twice into each cookie. Bake at 350° for 10-12 minutes or
until cookies are set. Remove from the oven; immediately press on
candy corn for eyes and red-hots for noses. Remove to wire racks to
cool. Yield: 2 dozen.
© Taste of Home 2009
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Nutrition Facts:
1 serving (2 each) equals 430 calories, 17 g fat (10 g saturated fat), 76 mg cholesterol, 334 mg sodium, 66 g carbohydrate, 2 g fiber, 6 g protein.
© Taste of Home 2009