Black Cat Cookies - Home Cooking

Black Cat Cookies

Make these cute Halloween cookies for a party or Halloween treat.

1 box chocolate cake mix

1/2 cup vegetable oil

2 eggs

large black gumdrops - about 1" size

black shoestring licorice

Frosting

1/4 cup butter or margarine

1/4 tsp. salt

3 cups confectioners sugar

1 tsp. vanilla

2 to 3 T. milk

red and yellow food coloring

Preparation -
Combine dry cake mix, oil, and eggs. Mix at medium speed for about one minute. Drop batter by teaspoonfuls, about 2 " apart, onto ungreased cookie sheets. Bake at 350º for 10 to 12 minutes, or until center of cookies spring back when pressed lightly in center. Cool on cookie sheet for one minute before removing to a rack to finish cooling.

Frosting -
Combine butter, salt, vanilla and 1 cup confectioners sugar. Add the remaining confectioners sugar alternately with the milk, mixing until smooth and creamy. Add 4 to 5 drops each of red and yellow food coloring to get the desired shade of orange. Frost the completely cooled cookies.

For each cat, horizontally slice 1 black gumdrop into 3 pieces. Use the rounded top slice for the head and the large bottom slice for the body; Cut the tail and ears from the third slice. Use snips of shoestring licorice for the whiskers.

Makes about 4 dozen - 2 1/2" cookies

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