Batty Bats

• 1 can (16 ounces) vanilla frosting
• Blue paste food coloring
• Cupcakes of your choice
• Gum balls
• Sticks Winterfresh gum
• Fudge-striped cookies
• 1 can (16 ounces) chocolate frosting
• Pastry tipround tip # 3
• Candy corn

1. Tint vanilla frosting bright blue; frost cupcakes.
2. Add gum ball eyes. Using a clean scissors or small sharp knife, cut sticks of gum into eyebrow shapes. Pinch tops to curve if desired; insert above eyes.
3. For bat wings, with a small serrated knife, cut cookies in half. Add scalloped edges if desired. Insert two cookie halves into each cupcake.
4. Using chocolate frosting and #3 tip, pipe pupils on eyes. For fangs, cut the white part from the candy corn. (Save removed orange sections for another use.) Add two white fangs under each mouth; press down gently.

vanilla frosting, coloring, your choice, winterfresh gum, cookies, chocolate frosting, pastry, corn

Taken from www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/batty-bats/ (may not work)