Halloween Party Cookie Pops

Total Time: 21 mins Preparation Time: 1 min Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 16
• 1 (16 1/2 ounce) roll pillsbury sugar cookie dough
• 16 craft sticks (flat wooden sticks with round ends)
• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 1 tablespoon milk
• 1 tablespoon butter or 1 tablespoon margarine, softened
• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 2 tablespoons unsweetened baking cocoa
• 1 -2 tablespoon milk
• 1 tablespoon butter or 1 tablespoon margarine, softened
• assorted decorative candies (gumdrops, candy corn and licorice)

Recipe

• 1 freeze cookie dough 1 hour.
• 2 heat oven to 350°f cut frozen dough into 16 (1/2-inch) slices; roll each into ball. on ungreased cookie sheets, arrange balls in circle, 3 inches apart and 2 inches from edges. securely insert a craft stick into each ball with end pointing toward center of cookie sheet.
• 3 bake 10 to 14 minutes or until golden brown. cool 2 minutes; remove from cookie sheet to cooling rack. cool completely, about 15 minutes.
• 4 in small bowl, stir frosting ingredients until smooth. if necessary, add additional milk 1 drop at a time for desired consistency.
• 5 in another small bowl, stir together all chocolate frosting ingredients except assorted candies until smooth. if necessary, add additional milk 1 drop at a time for desired consistency.
• 6 frost half of cookies with frosting; frost remaining cookies with chocolate frosting. arrange candies on frosted cookies to create jack-o'-lanterns, cats, owls or ghosts.
• 7 to make black cat cookie pops, for each cookie, slice a large black gumdrop into 3 round pieces. use small end for head; use largest piece for body. cut ears and tail from third piece. frost cookie with orange frosting. arrange gumdrop pieces on frosted cookie to form cat.