Spider Cookies

Aren't these the cutest and most yummy looking Halloween cookies....I made them today for Nathan's celebration for school. They were super easy and super yummy.

Thanks Bakerella.....www.bakerella.com

Trix or Treat Spider Cookies
1 package Betty Crocker Double Chocolate Chunk Cookie Mix(makes abut 12 cookies so if you need more just grab an extra package)

1 can of chocolate ready-made frosting

1 can of vanilla ready-made frosting

24-48 Trix orange and green sweetened corn puffs

Toothpicks

Re-sealable plastic bags

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Mix ingredients for cookies as directed on the package.
Use a small ice cream scoop to get similar sized cookies or just use a spoon and vary the amount for different size cookies.
Place cookie dough on a parchment covered baking sheet.
Bake for about 7-8 minutes.
Cool completely on a wire rack.
Makes about two dozen cookies.

To decorate:
Spread chocolate frosting on the top of each cookie.
Fill a re-sealable plastic bag with a couple of heaping spoonfuls of frosting and snip a tiny hole out of the bottom of one corner.
Pipe on three circles of white frosting for each cookie. Start in the middle with the smallest circle and work your way out.
Take a toothpick and beginning in the center, drag it lightly through each circle. Repeat all the way around the cookie.
Take remaining frosting and separate it into two bowls. Tint one frosting with orange icing color and the other with green.
Fill two re-sealable bags with the orange and green frosting and snip off the corner of each.
Pipe eight small legs with each color and place a matching orange or green Trix Cereal puff on the top of each pair of legs. Add one or several spiders on each cookie.

Slow Cooker Applesaue

That time of year and the apples are plentiful and of course we always pick more then we could possibly eat. So what to do with them?
Today I decided to venture and try something brand new to me...making applesauce...and with the slow cooker no less.

Now you can double and triple this recipe and it still comes out just right.

4 apples of your choice, peeled, cored and diced
1/2 cup water
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 tsp cinnamon

Throw it all into the slow cooker, give it a stir and then turn it on high for 4 hours and walk away. Now when its done if you need to mash the apples then do so but I found this unnecessary because the apples pretty much did the work themselves.

Cool and then put in the fridge. I then used my homemade applesauce to replace the vegetable oil in my muffins and brownie mixes to make them lower in fat.