I was counting up my MoFo posts and realized that I was only 4 posts away from Vegan MoFo Glory! Wooooot! So I decided to give myself a little break from the posting and to have a little Halloween fun with the Guppy… Please don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying I can run with the likes of the Queen of Halloween, River, and her amazing, spooky treats, and I think that Diann’s Spider Web Soup is the most boooodiful I’ve ever seen, but hey, I wanted to get in on the Halloween baking fun :
I’ve seen these Skeleton cookies floating about the blogosphere, but when I saw the cuties over at My Paper Crane, I decided I just had to make some, too. I would have made Vegan Gingerbread People, but since neither Guppy nor M. Fish are fans, I decided to throw caution to the wind and try something new. I took my favorite recipe for Sugar Cookies from The Joy of Vegan Baking (which I really need to blog on some day), doubled it, then added 3/4 cup of Dutch-Processed Cocoa. Yummy! These babies tasted just a little bit like the Oreos of my youth. A piping bag and some royal icing and I was all about the scary goodness!
I’m bringing these cookies (the ones that I managed to hide before we all started devouring them) to the little Halloween party I’m having with my (little) students tomorrow – I know, it’s not Halloween yet (thought it looks like it here in our apartment. You can’t have too many decorations, can you?) but it’s already vacation time here in France, and the kids won’t have class during the week of Halloween, so we’re gonna get our party on a wee bit early. Boo!
On a personal note, yesterday was my last day at the other evil job I hated and quit! WOOOT!
Sounds like an amazing day–last day of yucky work, and productive day of making these Verrrrry Scarrrrry Skeletons!! They are just adorable! I love the way you managed to give them eyes–that’s some piping skill, lady!
Cuuute cookies!!
Hooray for being away from that evil job!!
THANKS AGAIN FOR YOUR PACKAGE!!!
Congratulations on your evil job freedom! LOVE those cookies! Happy Halloween
I’m pretty sure I’ll be having nightmares for a long time… Those spooky faces on your cookies freaked me out.
Lots of happy hoorays to you for quitting a job you hated! Go celebrate and eat some cookies for me!
So great that you get to celebrate Haloween with your students. I am sure they will love these adorable cookies!
I love ‘em!
And congrats on quitting a job you didn’t like… now you can find a BETTER one ;o).
Yay on no more evil job! And the cookies look awfully cute in a supercreep way. And now I’m craving chocolate. Mmmm.
Que ces biscuits sont adorable! Congrats on finally leaving your job. I hope the search for a new one is going well.
i love these. I wish I could get my act together to have some for our Halloween party on Saturday! So cute.
OMG Shelly these are so adorable!! I love how they all have different faces and their own personality!
Thank you so much for the shoutout, “the queen of Halloween”, tee hee!
YAY for freedom from the evil job!!
SOOO adorable! I want some!
Those cookies are great! Love them. Thanks for the nice comment – it really is very easy to print t-shirts. I look forward to seeing some of yours soon!
hooray for yesterday!!
and those cookies? I’d give them a hug if I could. with my teeth.
Cute but slightly spooky, I love these!
i agree – superw00t on the last day of the crappy job, Shelly! wahoooooooooo!
your cookies are the BEST EVER – i love the little happyfaced skeletons the mostest! no, you can’t have too many halloween decorations – and hooray for so many mofo posts! that deserves another w00t!
I’m lovin these cookies!! Congrats on leaving the crappy job! woo hoo!
these are so AWESOME! they are making me smile and definitely want to bake even MORE cookies, if that is possible.
Oh…how…freakin’…cute!!! I love how they all have different faces! Now I wanna make some. Congrats on the end of the evil job!
Love those evil grins–well done.
Congrats on leaving your job!
Those are positively gorgeous!
Too Cute!!!
Your cookies turned out so cute! I love that you made them chocolate.
Glad the evil job is ending.
Ooooh I LOVE these – they are so cute!!
Glad to hear you quit evil job – hope you find something you LOVE!
Oh those are just adorable! I love them.
These are great! I bet you and the Guppy had a great time making them – and eating them! I really look forward to when my daughter and I can bake together.
cookie success, i’d say. they came out great. what kind of royal icing did you choose? the one in JOVB?
xo
kittee
so festive & cute!
Cute!!!! I’ve gotta make these at my job next week. I especially love the little guy in the 3rd photo.
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Yummy! This has got me thinking, I need to make some cookies or some other yummy baked good for Halloween! An excuse to make sweets, well who really needs an excuse for vegan junk food I say!
Cute!!!
Those skeleton cookies are so cute!! I need to join the halloween baking fun too!
Adorable!
those are beyond cute. you have so much more patience than I do!
I’ve tagged you as one of my favorite “excellent” blogs
http://www.gfgoodness.com/2008/10/22/excellent-blogs/
That is so cute! I love this idea!
These are so cute! I am going to a Day of the Dead celebration on Nov. 1st and I think they’ll be perfect! I love halloween too..it may just be my favorite holiday!
These cookies are adorable! Or is it insulting to call skeleton cookies adorable? They can also be spooky. In either case, they look delicious!
those are so cute! must try to make these.
These are awesome! I wonder if I can ice them differently and turn them into mummies? I’ve been ripping up old sheets to make Alex’s requested mummy costume and he’d love them.
These are awesome! I wonder if I can ice them differently and turn them into mummies? I’ve been ripping up old sheets to make Alex’s requested mummy costume and he’d love them.
Those are adorable!