Flat Cat Cookies
Submitted by bikemom
Flat cat cookies, the gleefully gruesome Halloween treat. Roll out refrigerated sugar cookie dough, cut roadkill cat shapes, add red candy eyes and a drizzle of jam blood. Easy enough for kids.
YIELD
2 dozenPREP
20 minCOOK
15 minREADY
50 minSome Halloween cookies are cute. These are decidedly not. Flat Cat Cookies are the gloriously gross gag treat that makes kids howl and grown-ups groan, shaped like a cat that lost an argument with a tire.
The beauty is in the cheating. You start with a tube of refrigerated sugar cookie dough, so there’s no creaming butter or measuring flour. Roll it a touch thicker than the package suggests so the cats hold their shape, then cut freehand with a butter knife. No cookie cutter required.
Flatten red cinnamon candies between two spoons and press them in for eyes and a nose while the cookies are still warm, so they stick as everything cools.
A few dribbles of seedless strawberry jam play the part of, ahem, blood. It’s morbid, it’s silly, and it’s a guaranteed hit at any kids’ Halloween party.
Kitchen Tips
- Roll the dough slightly thicker than the package calls for so the shapes stay sturdy and don’t spread into blobs.
- Press the candies and jam on while the cookies are still warm, around the 3-minute mark, so they melt in and stick.
- Chill the dough if it turns soft and sticky while you cut. Cold dough holds a cleaner edge.
Variations
- Use chocolate cookie dough for a darker, creepier look.
- Swap the strawberry jam for red gel icing if you want neater “blood."
- Scatter crushed-cookie “gravel” around the cats for the full road scene.
Ingredients
Directions
Preheat oven to temperature specified on package.
Sprinkle flour on a clean, flat surface and roll out cookie dough slightly thicker than what the package calls for.
Then, using butter knife, cut out cookies in the shape of a flattened cat.
Use a large spatula to carefully transfer cookies to cookie sheet.
Bake according to package directions.
While they’re cooling, count out enough cinnamon candies to put two eyes and a nose on each cat.
Carefully flatten between the front and bakdof two spoons and set aside.
Allow the cookies to cool on the cookie sheet for about 3 minutes and then press in eyes and nose.
Transfer to wire rack to continue cooling.
Dribble jam here and there on each cookie for blood.
Makes approximately 3 dozen kitty road kill Sicko serving suggestion: Instead of making each cookie in a perfect cat shape, make a few that are missing a limb and/or tail. Why not even sever a head or two? Drip jam blood at stumps for an authentically dismembered look?
Comments
I would try it