One-eyed green monster, sugar cookies....

I would love to take full credit for how darling these turned out but I saw them some where in blog land awhile ago. I needed a quick, cute, fevstive cookie for work and decided it was way too much work to frost and decorate all different Halloween shapes. Then, I remembered I had seen these and made them from what I could remember....I found the only sort of round cookie cutter I had (which was actually a flower, oops) and picked out all the black M & M's from the Halloween M & M's which really look brown to me so they would work too. I think they would be super cute if you dyed coconut green and put it on top of the green frosting to make "fur" but I didn't have any and didn't want to run to the store so I didn't. I used the neon food coloring because that green is just more "Monster" green.

The cookie: Basic butter cookie ---> My entire family uses it, no clue where the recipe originally came from. But it is easy and yummy! It's pretty much my standby recipe!
1 cup butter (softened)
1 1/2 cup powdered sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
2 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp cream of tarter
1/2 tsp salt

cream butter, vanilla, sugar and egg. Sift in dry ingrediants (I never sift them and they turn out just fine)
CHILL 1 hour
bake 350 degrees for 5-8 min

Frosting:
dump a can of fluffy or whipped vanilla frosting in a bowel add like 2 cups of powdered sugar ( I just dump to what I think) and use a mixer to whip it up.

I saved a little out for the white of the eye and then made the rest green. I frosted the cookie green and used my handy dandy frosting gun and put a dot of white in the center and added a M & M. They were super easy took maybe 20 minutes to frost 40 ish cookies. I say ish because I eat way too much of the dough while making them and then if I break one my dog Mack gets to enjoy it:) Have fun!

a great day!

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It was a PAR-TAY!

We held a Zumba party at work (Old Navy) last night. We had quite the turn out! It was so much fun!