Bake It By The Book

Wed., Oct. 23, 1996

It’s almost time to start making Halloween cookies for your little spookies - and you might as well have them help.

“Creepy Cookies,” a recipe book and cookie cutter set from the Reader’s Digest Young Families series, features 10 recipes - ranging from Cocoa Bat Bites to Hairy Scary Spider Shortbread - along with cutters shaped like bats, witches, ghosts, spiders and black cats.

The illustrated, color booklet also offers lots of baking tips for beginners, so maybe your kids will want to start spending some time in the kitchen. Which is the really scary part.

Price: $7.99.

Available: Hastings and B. Dalton bookstores.

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