Vampire Bites

Southern Polar Bear's Note:

Your little ghosts and goblins will get a "bite" out of these Halloween cookies. When finished, the lipped shaped sugar cookies have sharp fangs gripping onto miniature Milky Way chocolate bars. Ooooo, scary!!

• Total Time: 47 mins
• Prep Time: 40 mins
• Cook Time: 7 mins

Ingredients:

Yield: 24 cookies

• 24 (18 g) fun size Milky Way miniature candy bars
• 1 ½ cups flour
• ¾ teaspoon baking soda
• ½ teaspoon cinnamon
• ½ cup butter , softened
• 2⁄3; cup packed brown sugar
• 1 egg
• red food coloring
• ½ cup red decorator's sugar
• ¼ cup decorator's white frosting

Directions:

1. Combine the flour, baking soda and cinnamon in a medium bowl; set aside.
2. Beat the butter and sugar in a large bowl with an electric mixer until light and fluffy.
3. Add the egg; beat well.
4. Slowly add the flour mixture into the dough until blended. A.
5. dd enough food coloring to tint the dough a bright red.
6. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap, and refrigerate at least 2 hours.
7. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
8. Line the cookie sheet pans with the parchment paper.
9. Using a rolling pin, roll out the dough on a lightly floured surface to 1/4-inch thickness.
10. Use a lip shaped cookie cutter to cut out 24 lip shapes. Or, you can form the dough into 24 balls and flatten each slightly to create free-form shaped lips using your hands to pinch and shape the dough. Transfer these to the prepared cookie sheets.
11. Re-roll the scraps if necessary.
12. Sprinkle the cookies with red sugar.
13. Bake 7-10 minutes, or until light golden brown.
14. Remove from the oven, and immediately press an unwrapped MILKY WAY® Fun Size chocolate bar piece into the center of each cookie. Cool completely.
15. Use vanilla frosting to pipe fangs over the candy.