Halloween Treats

I'm a total sucker for anything baked with sugar and frosting. Anna is the same way, so we like any excuse to make cookies with sugar and frosting. We spent yesterday making Halloween sugar cookies. We found some cookie cutters at the dollar store and, come on, you have to admit that making cookies into certain shapes is really fun! Anna is such a helper...she organized the cookie cutters and had them all ready to go, about three hours before. But we had fun.



Since I wasn't about to let Jake get near the frosting or sprinkles, I gave him a piece of dough and some flour so he could roll it like me. That entertained him for about 30 minutes, which is really amazing when you think about it. The dough was eventually eaten, but the flour was still really fun to play with. He had it everywhere, but at least he had fun!

Doesn't she look like a professional chef with her apron on?

And the finished product...

Yeah, you might be wondering what's with the blue/purple frosting? Okay, well, I realized that with our bat shaped cookies what color were we going to frost them? I didn't have any black frosting, so I thought I'd try to "make some". Yeah, just for future reference, no matter how much food coloring you put together it doesn't make black. So I tried to salvage it by trying to turn it into purple for the witch's hat shaped cookies and this is what it looked like.

I'll try to save some for the kids to eat while they are sleeping...he he he.