Cutest Hairy Bat Cookies

I'm a little in love with the cookies - for a few reasons.

1. Bats are the coolest. More on this in a sec...
2. They are SO SIMPLE to make. Lots of cuteness with not much effort,
3. I made them with my latest cut-out cookie recipe: Black Cocoa Chocolate Cut-Outs.

Bats. First, they're just awesome. They eat mosquitos!!! Hello, how much more helpful can an animal be?

One of my very favorite things to do in Austin is to go on a Bat Cruise to see the enormous bat colony (about 1.5 million of them) fly out at dusk from under the Congress Avenue Bridge. I took this picture this summer...it's spectacular. Every night, they eat about 20,000 pounds of mosquitos and other bugs! Read more about the bats here.

I've been wanting to revisit bat cookies for a while but could not think of how I wanted to decorate them. I think after seeing this old post of mine, the idea started marinating. Those chocolate jimmies add so much impact!
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