So Halloween is coming. It is not a day that I particularly look forward to but our playgroup is having a party on wednesday so I volunteered to make cookies. And here they are:
Jacob helped me put the eyes on... however Jacob and Daniel ate at least four chocolate chips for each one that ended up on the cookies. It was fun to get them involved.
There is a bit of a story behind these cookies which I am going to share and I will finish with the recipe. Last Christmas I was looking for a gingerbread/gingersnap recipe. All the recipes had molasses in them which is not a stocked pantry item in my kitchen and I didn't want to buy it. Well.... Christmas passed and I found this recipe. It is called "Almost Gingerbread Cookies." I was very excited by the recipe and even planned to use it in my 2011 recipe challenge as a "Christmas in July" kind of thing. But then my challenge became an epic failure because I didn't keep up with it.
Anyways, what could be better than fake gingerbread fake spiders for halloween?
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Almost Gingerbread
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1 pkg butterscotch pudding mix
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 egg
1 1/2 cups flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 1/2 tsp ginger
1 tsp cinnamon
In a medium bowl, cream together the dry butterscotch pudding mix, butter, and brown sugar until smooth. Stir in the egg. Combine the flour, baking soda, ginger, and cinnamon; stir into the pudding mixture. Cover, and chill dough until firm, about 1 hour.
Preheat the oven to 350. On a floured board, roll dough out to about 1/8 inch thickness, and cut into shapes using a cookie cutter. Place cookies 2 inches apart on the prepared baking sheets.
Bake for 6-7 minutes in the preheated oven, until cookies are golden at the edges. Cool on wire racks.
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