Halloween cookie treats for a good cause

My children and I are getting ready to bake lots of treats for a Halloween Bake Sale. The bake sale will be held on Halloween morning at the National Institutes of Health metro stop. All of the proceeds are going to benefit one of my co-workers whose baby boy was just diagnosed with Leukemia.

Some of the treats we are going to make are:

GINGERBREAD SKELETON

Using a standard gingerbread man cookie cutter and favorite gingerbread cookie recipe, instead of decorating in the gingerbread man fashion, instead decorate as below in gingerbread man or animal skeletons.

EYEBALL TREATS

These Halloween treats, prepared and eaten on the same fork, begin with a doughnut hole dunked in white chocolate.

Ingredients:

2 (11-ounce) bags white chocolate chips
12 doughnut holes
Semisweet chocolate chips
Tube of red decorator frosting
2 tablespoons vegetable oil

Instructions:

To coat a dozen doughnut holes, melt the white chocolate chips with the oil over low heat (and keep the chocolate warm while you work).

With a fork, spear each doughnut hole and submerge it in the melted chocolate to coat it, then gently tap off any excess.

Stick a semisweet chocolate chip with its point cut off onto each doughnut hole, cut end first.

Place the forks (handle side down) in a mug and allow the chocolate coating to harden.

Use a tube of red decorator frosting to add squiggly veins radiating out from the pupils.