GREAT GHOST PUMPKIN COOKIES

GREAT GHOST PUMPKIN COOKIES
Categories: Cookies, Vegetables, Holiday
Yield: 25 servings

2 c Flour
1 c Quick oats, un-cooked
1 ts Baking soda
1 ts Cinnamon
1/2 ts Salt
1 c Butter or margarine;softened
1 c Brown sugar, packed
1 c Granulated sugar
1 Egg; slightly beaten
1 ts Vanilla
1 c Libby's solid-pack pumpkin
1 c Semi-sweet morsels

Servings: 25

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine flour, oats, baking soda,
cinnamon and salt; set aside. Cream butter; gradually add sugars,
beating until light and fluffy. Add egg and vanilla; mix. Alternate
additions of dry ingredients and pumpkin, mixing well after each
addition. Stir in morsels.

For each cookie, drop 1/4 cup dough onto lightly greased cookie sheet;
spread dough into a ghost shape using a thin metal spatula. Or make a
qiuck ghost pattern of heavy paper. Make 2 or three poses for
realism. Bake 20-25 minutes, til cookies are firm and lightly
browned.Remove from cookie sheets; cool on racks. Spread with white
royal icing. Trim brown face features with tube-icing.

Yields 19-20 large cookies.

Source: Magazine, newsletter Oct '89 Dolores McCann BSWN00A