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Tips and tricks for Halloween treats

Whether you're throwing a fall festival, a spooky soiree, or a trick-or-treating after party, these treats will satisfy guests of any age.

Halloween witch cookies

Whipped, The Blog
You could make these same cookies yourself using good old fashioned ingredients like butter and flour. And perhaps you could use more natural decorations. On the other hand… it’s Halloween.

By Caroline Lubbers, Whipped, The Blog 

1 Christmas Tree Cookie cutter

1 roll of sugar cookie dough

Green food coloring

White frosting

Chocolate frosting

Thin chocolate cookies

Red hots

Candy corn

Fruit roll ups

Large Shredded Wheat blocks

1. Roll out the cold cookie dough on a floured surface and cut out trees. Cook per the package directions. If the dough gets hard to work with, put it in the freezer for a few minutes. Colder is easier for cut out cookies.

2. Color some of the white frosting green. Use chocolate frosting on the top section of the tree to make the hat and green frosting for the face.

3. Cut chocolate cookies in half to make the brim of the hat. Use other decorations to make faces. We used kitchen scissors to cut mouth shapes out of fruit roll ups. They were easier to cut after being in the refrigerator for ten minutes. Eat in moderation!

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