halloween bingo cookies!

            This year is all about figuring out safe and fun ways to celebrate all these darn holidays during a pandemic!  I feel like the biggest, most horrible thing about covid, besides, you know, the threat of death, is all the mixed messages.  One minute, pushing lollipops into your front lawn is the height of social distance trick or treating safety; the next second, someone posts about how this will just make kids trip and break bones.  Scratch that idea.  One second, candy shoots are like the best idea of the year; the next second, someone is posting about jet propelled m&ms poking people’s eyes out.  But you know what is safe?  Playing Halloween bingo in your house with your family on giant bingo card cookies!  You can mark off what is called out using candy corn, or just have people eat the sprinkle/decoration if you live with very trustworthy people.  I attached the items using frosting, because I don’t happen to live with trustworthy people (ahem, 8 and 5 year old boys, I’m looking at you), but you could even have participants decide where their sprinkles go, if you have no tricky switchies in your house.  Again, I do not. 

            This is my go to sugar cookie recipe from Alton Brown, staple food genius extraordinaire.  Feel free to use any recipe that works for you, just cut it out in 5’’x5’’ squares.  I pulled out sprinkles from a few wilton mixed packs, the spiders, bugs, ghosts, pumpkins and bones are all perfect sizes.  The larger cupcake topper ones are fun but kind of fill up the boxes.  My kids are weirdly obsessed with these candies and want any excuse to eat them, so it works.  You could also use plain colored frosting to help color awareness. 

            If you are doing a zoom Halloween party there are loads of online bingo card templates that participants can print out before the meeting to use, too, if cookies aren’t your thing.  Who are cookies not a thing for, though?  That’s weird!  Anyways, stay safe, have fun and please do not injure yourself on these bingo cards!

            Speaking of bingo, Hotel Transylvania has the cutest bingo scene ever, and the movie is just about my level of scary, meaning not at all.  It is on Hulu and is sweet enough to be paired with this giant cookie.