The pumpkins have been carved into Halloween jack-‘o-lanterns, perhaps more than you need. One or two to stand on the porch, another to light up with a candle set inside. Then?
How about making a jack-o’-lantern part of a yummy treat? Consider using its round, mellow shape as a cheery container (cauldron?) for a clutch of edible monsters, fuzzy chocolate "wolfman" cookie pops that youngsters will wolf down.
Preparing the cookies can be a family project. After they are baked, recruit the children to decorate those monster faces with candy fangs and ears and eyes.
Little hands can also help stir the coconut mixture that makes the wolfman’s "furry" coat. Then, the cookie pops have to be grouped in the pumpkin, and the pumpkin set on the table as a centerpiece.
Here’s the recipe to get the project under way. It will make about 14 cookies; plan to decorate and use eight for a pop cookie "bouquet" in your jack-o’-lantern; more tends to look crowded.
If you re-roll dough scraps you’ll get even more cookies, and any leftover, undecorated cookies will taste just as good.
Wolfman cookie pops
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