From HERSHEYS’S

Makes 18 Cookies

Give trick-or-treaters something unique this year with this Halloween cookies-on-a-stick recipe. Decorate the chocolate cookies as pumpkins, mummies, ghosts and goblins, or anything spooky enough for a Halloween treat.

YOU’LL NEED
1 cup butter or margarine (2 sticks), softened

3/4 cup granulated sugar

3/4 cup packed light brown sugar

1 tsp vanilla extract

2 eggs

2 – 1/2 cup all-purpose flour

1/3 cup HERSHEY’S Cocoa

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

About 18 wooden ice cream sticks

decorating icing

DIRECTIONS
1.Heat oven to 350 degrees. Beat butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar and vanilla in large bowl on medium speed of mixer until creamy. Add eggs; beat well. Stir together flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt; gradually add to butter mixture, beating until well blended.

2.Drop dough by scant 1/4 cup onto ungreased cookie sheet, about 3 inches apart. Shape into balls. Insert wooden stick about halfway into center of each. Flatten slightly.

3.Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until set. Cool 3 minutes; carefully remove from cookie sheet to wire rack. Cool completely.

4.Decorate as desired with decorating icing.

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