Halloween Baking Basics
Armed with a few bottles of food coloring (the gel or paste varieties work best), a good cut-out cookie recipe (try Child-Proof Sugar Cookies or Butter Sugar Cookies) some cookie cutters, and a basic frosting recipe (try Royal Icing or Really Good Frosting ) you too will be able to turn your kitchen into a baking cave of horrors.

Cookie shapes
Try bats, cats, witches, ghosts, jack-o-lanterns, pumpkins, leaves, acorns, full moons, broomsticks, cauldrons, martians, spiders, eyeballs, tombstones and any other spooky shape that you can come up with!

Cookie colors
By mixing different food colorings you can create creepy colors like putrid green, horrible orange, blood red, midnight black, and glow yellow. Top your cookies with some of these colors and watch the screams pour in.

Black Widow Spider Cookies
Make a batch of Child Proof Sugar Cookies . Add enough black food coloring gel or paste to the dough to get a nice black color (this will take quite a bit). Roll out the dough to 1/8 to 1/4 inch thick and cut into circles, using two different cookie cutters, one smaller and one bigger. Place the cookies on a cookie sheet, attaching the smaller cookie (spider's head) to the larger cookie (spider's body). In the larger circle make a small hourglass-shaped hole and fill it with crushed red hard candy. In the smaller circle make two small holes (for eyes) and fill with yellow or green crushed hard candy. Attach strips of cookie dough to the body for legs.
Mounds of Brains Cookies
Using Butter Cookies or your favorite refrigerator cookie recipe, add some black food color gel or paste until you get a gray color, then push the dough through a colander to make worm-like shapes. Take small handfuls of the wormy dough and gently shape it into a brain-like shape, then bake. For an added touch, drizzle a little green colored icing over the tops of the baked brains.

Apple Bites

Just quarter and core an apple, cut a wedge from the skin side of each quarter, then press slivered almonds in place for teeth.

 Tips:

If you're not going to serve them right away, baste the apples with orange juice to keep them from browning.

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