Yield: 16 cookies

Halloween Tombstone Treats!

Ingredients

3 tablespoons butter
4 cups mini marshmallows
6 1/2 cups Rice Krispies
1 (18 ounce) package refrigerated sugar cookie dough, *or homemade sugar cookies
2/3 cup flour
1 teaspoon water
6 drops green food coloring
1 1/2 cups flaked coconut
black decorating gel *or black food coloring
1 can vanilla frosting, or 1 1/2 cups homemade
2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips, melted
16 decorative candy pumpkins

Instructions

In large saucepan over low heat, melt butter. Stir in marshmallows until completely melted. Remove from heat.

Stir in cereal until well-coated. Press into a greased 13x9x2 pan with buttered hands or spatula. Cool.

In large mixing bowl, beat cookie dough and flour until well mixed.(*You do have to add the flour, otherwise that store-bought dough is really awful -- very sticky!)

On a lightly-floured surface, roll dough into a 6" x 16" rectangle.

Cut into 16 small rectangles. 2 rows of 8. Each one being 3" x 2". You can trim tops (2" side) with a paring knife to resemble the top of a tombstone cutting an arch or other pattern if desired.

Place each tombstone onto ugreased baking sheets 2" apart.

Bake cookies at 350º for 13-14 minutes or until edges are golden brown. Remove to wire racks to cool.

In large plastic ziploc bag, combine water and green food coloring.

Add coconut, seal bag shut, and shake to coat.

Toast coconut, set aside. (Optional.)I didn't, it was fine.

Using black gel, tint frosting gray. (*I used one whole small tube and it was barely gray, but ok. If you have black food coloring, I would use that instead.)

Frost cookies, decorate tombstones with rest of melted chocolate chips.

Cut cereal bars into 3"x2" rectangles.

Spread top with half of the melted chocolate chips. Cover and chill.

When set, pipe a thick bead of melted chocolate chips on wide edge and place onto waxed paper, standing them up on edge with the cookie pressed against the chocolate and the cookies laying flat against it so you don't have to hold them. Refrigerate until set. (30 minutes was all it took.) Remove from waxed paper carefully. Add a small dot of melted chocolate and press a pumpkin into the chocolate.

Decorate with tinted coconut for "grass".

Notes

*You can spread tops of rice crispy treats with melted chocolate chips before slicing while in the pan, or at the end when adding the pumpkins and "grass".

**You can also make homemade sugar cookies instead of purchased cookie dough and the extra flour. ;)