Happenings of our lives

I was so excited for Halloween this year. Jordan and I knew that we were spending Halloween with Whitney and Evan and we wanted to bring some food to their party. So, I started making some cookies that morning. I made some that looked like candy corn and some other ones that looked like spiders.

The candy corn ones were really easy to make. I just made some normal sugar cookie dough. I split the sugar cookies into 3 pieces. To make the orange dough I put food coloring in one and in the brown, I melted some chocolate and mixed it in. Then, I split those into two pieces and then put them into small bread pans and then let them chill for 1.5 hours. Then I sliced them into candy corn chunks. After I cooked and cooled them, I dipped the chocolate part into chocolate.

The spiders were just cake mix cookies with M&M eyes and licorice legs. They were so cute, we just wanted to eat them .

Makes one large cookie sheet

• 2 ½ cups light corn syrup
• 2 ½ cups granulated sugar
• 2 ½ peanut butter
• 15 cups Rice Krispies
• 1 package (11oz) of butterscotch chips
• 1 package (12 oz) of semi-sweet chocolate chips

Combine corn syrup and sugar and bring to a boil, remove from heat and add peanut butter. Pour over Rice Krispies and mix until the mixture has completely coated the Rice Krispies. Press into a greased cookie sheet. Allow the mixture to cool slightly. Meanwhile, combine butterscotch chips and semi-sweet chocolate chips and microwave until the mixture is smooth. Spread over Rice Krispie mixture and allow the chocolate to harden. Cut before they are too cool, or it will be very difficult to cut them.

• ½ cup butter (room temperature)
• ½ Crisco or other shortening (I used butter flavored)
• 1 cup white sugar
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt (I used about ½ teaspoon because the butter was salted)
• 3 cups all purpose flour
• 12 oz of chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 375ºF. Cut the butter in chunks and put in mixer bowl. Add the shortening and mix until blended. Add sugars and cream the butter. After creamed, add eggs and vanilla, mix until blended. In a separate bowl, combine baking soda, salt, and flour. Slowly add the flour mixture to the butter/sugar blend until all the flour is mixed in. Add the chocolate chips mix in. Form the cookies into tablespoon size balls. You may want to spray the cookie sheet. Place the cookies about 2 inches apart on the cookie sheet. Place in the middle rack of the oven and cook for 12-14 minutes. Enjoy!

Here are the pictures: