Bite the Bat Cookie Contest - refrigerator sugar

Method

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Roll out cookie dough to a 1/4-inch thickness and cut with bat cookie cutters.
• If you can't find a bat cookie cutter, cut a bat shape out of lightweight cardboard, place it on the rolled out cookie dough and trace around with a sharp knife.
• Place the cookies on a cookie sheet.
• Poke a hole on the top of each bat cookie using a drinking straw.
• Bake for 7 to 11 minutes or until lightly brown.
• Two minutes before the cookies come out of the oven, re-poke the holes to make sure they are large enough for threading a string.
• Remove cookies from the cookie sheet and cool on a cooling rack.
• Thread with 2 to 3-foot lengths of string or fishing line.
• Frost the cookies and add red hots candy for eyes.
• String a clothesline across the room (preferably the basement, porch or another room where you don't mind getting crumbs on the floor).
• Hang the cookies on the clothesline so they fall to the height of the children's shoulders.
• If you're hosting a party with a variety of ages, be sure to hang the strings at different lengths.
• To play, instruct the children to keep their hands behind their backs and try to eat the cookies with their mouths only.
• The first child to eat the whole cookie wins.
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