Halloween Cat Cookies

Total Time

Prep/Total Time: 30 min.

Makes

1-1/2 dozen

Updated: Sep. 12, 2022
Trick-or-treaters of all ages will gobble up these adorable cookies. The tasty treats can be served as a swift after-school snack, an appealing addition to a fall bake sale, or a quick contribution to a classroom celebration or ghoulish get-together.—Taste of Home Test Kitchen, Greendale, Wisconsin

Ingredients

  • 1 tube (18 ounces) refrigerated chocolate chip cookie dough
  • 54 pieces candy corn
  • 1 can (16 ounces) chocolate frosting
  • Red shoestring licorice, cut into 1-3/8-inch pieces
  • 9 thin chocolate wafer (2-1/4 inch diameter), quartered

Directions

  1. Bake cookies according to package directions. Cool on a wire racks.
  2. Cut off yellow tips from 18 pieces of candy corn (discard orange and white portion or save for another use). Frost cookies with chocolate frosting.
  3. Immediately decorate with two whole candy corns for eyes, a yellow candy corn tip for nose, six licorice pieces for whiskers and two wafer quarters for ears.

Nutrition Facts

1 each: 257 calories, 11g fat (3g saturated fat), 7mg cholesterol, 136mg sodium, 39g carbohydrate (28g sugars, 1g fiber), 1g protein.