Halloween Witch Hat Cookies

I've never really gotten into seasonal/holiday crafts. I definitely appreciate them, I enjoy seeing other people's ideas, and I love seeing a house decked out for different holidays, but I just haven't really done much myself yet. Maybe it's because I always equate holiday decorating with having elementary-school-age kids . . . I figure you do it for them, so they'll get excited about each holiday (I have so many happy memories of putting up Christmas decorations with my mom), and since my one-year old's interest in holiday decor would be limited to the items he could stuff in his mouth, I haven't really bothered to do much holiday decorating yet.

But! I have a humble Halloween offering for you! (Something that would actually be perfect for my one-year old to stuff in his mouth!)

It's not very exciting. It's not even very original. I'm sure you've seen these before, but humor me. This is my only Halloween tradition, okay? (Well, my only Halloween tradition besides my yearly tradition of running out of candy after the first 8 trick-or-treaters, then pretending no one's home until I go to bed at 10:00 and quiver in fear that hungry, angry, costumed children will egg my house.)

 Witch Hat Cookies! I believe I first saw these in American Girl Magazine when I was little, (Did you read that magazine? I'm sure my sister and I must have skewed their subscriber statistics . . . we were still faithfully reading it well into our teen years.) and we've made them many Halloweens since then.

I've mentioned before that I'm not great at decorating desserts--for goodness' sakes, everybody always make things look so easy, with perfectly frosted cakes and piped flowers and little fondant characters--so these minimally-decorated cookies are just the ticket for a frosting failure like me.

You'll need:

fudge stripe cookies

Hershey's Kisses

buttercream frosting (dyed orange, or green, or purple)

Just plunk your cookie upside down (chocolate side up) and glob some frosting onto the bottom of an unwrapped kiss.

Smoosh the kiss down onto the center of the cookie so the frosting oozes out the sides a bit (it kind of helps if you block the hole on the other side of the cookie with your finger so it all doesn't squelch out the opposite end).

Spoon some frosting into a sandwich baggie and cut off a bit of one corner, then pipe some onto the kiss and cookie in a bow shape.

(See? I told you I was a frosting failure. That one was my best work.)

And there you go! Cute little witch hat cookies, perfect for Halloween. Very low effort, but still really cute. Just my style.

I'm linking my cookies up to Midwestern Sewing Girl's Everything Halloween link party!