Black Cat Treats

Description

A great way to add some fun to any party table. Make these cute Ho Ho Cats. Dress up a HoHo or a chocolate-covered cream filled cake roll and decorate with some fun Halloween candies such as mini M&M's and black licorice.

Ingredients

• 1 box of HoHo's or or chocolate covered cream filled rolls
• Mini M and M's or small candy coated chocolates.
• Black String Licorice or Black Twizzlers
• Chocolate Frosting or Black Icing to adhere the "eyes" and "whiskers."

Steps

• Cut licorice pieces into one inch strips for whiskers. We used two pieces for each cat. Cut longer piece for tail.
• Put a dab of icing and center the whiskers on cake roll. We used two pieces.
• Place another dab of icing on center of whiskers and place mini m and m.
• Put two dabs of icing using skewer where eyes are to be placed.
• Place mini m and m's on icing.
• For ears cut a triangle out of licorice twizzlers or use black gumdrops.
• Put a dab of frosting on the base of ears and place where desired.
• Poke with a skewer or toothpick in the back of hoho for tail. Insert licorice tail.
• Place on plate to set until dry.

Tips and Suggestions

• Using dark colored icing as the "glue" will make it less noticeable
• We could not find string licorice so we bought regular black twists and cut into thin slices with a knife for the whiskers. For the ears we took the twizzler and cut each end into a triangle so that the base was flat. (adult only)
• We found mini M and M's by the register in small round containers, not in the candy section at the grocery store although it might be easier to find during Halloween in bags.
• Wrap in a clear goodie bags and tie for individual treats or arrange on a plate as a centerpiece.