Diva Bats: Halloween Cookies

Need a Halloween treat for the ladies (or some little divas), these black sparkle bat cookies should do the trick (or should I say treat).

I had originally planned to make these cute little skeleton cookies I found on Cooking Light, but the bittersweet chocolate cookie dough was a little crumbly & my gingerbread man cookie cutter has oddly skinny arms.  I am not particularly talented at icing, so my skeletons were more likely to look  like confused ghosts anyway.  I dug through my cookie cutters and found a bat... then I remembered the black sugar sparkles I had bought after Halloween last year, and the plan came together.  I would make a flock  of glittery diva bat Halloween cookies.

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Diva Bats: Halloween Cookies

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Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Prep Time: 45 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 10 minutes minutes

Total Time: 55 minutes minutes

Calories:

Author: Robin Gagnon

Ingredients

• 1 cup granulated sugar I substituted Splenda for ½ of the sugar
• ½ cup butter softened (I used a heart healthy spread instead)
• ½ cup canola oil
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 large egg
• 5.6 ounces all-purpose flour about 1 ¼ cups
• 4.75 ounces whole-wheat flour about 1 cup
• ¾ cup unsweetened dark cocoa such as Hershey's Special Dark
• ½ teaspoon salt
• edible black glitter sprinkles

Glaze

• 1 tbs milk or orange juice
• ¾ cup confectionery sugar more if needed
• couple drops of black food coloring

Instructions

• Cream together the sugar, butter, oil & vanilla.
• Beat eggs, then mix in.
• Add flour, cocoa & salt, and mix well.
• Knead dough then roll out between sheets of plastic wrap.
• Chill dough for about ½ an hour.
• Preheat oven to 350.
• Cut shapes, and place on parchment lined baking sheet.
• Bake for 9-10 minutes.
• Mix together glaze. It should be thin enough to brush on, but thick enough for sparkles to stick to.
• Brush one side of each bat cookies with glaze and drop into glitter, shake to coat.
• Put on rack to dry.

Notes

*I will try swapping sweetener to ¾ cup sugar + ¼ cup syrup (maple, agave, molasses or honey) in the next batch. It should improve the flexibility of the dough.