Halloween Bat Bites from Molly MacRae

Is this a recipe or a craft project? It doesn’t really matter. A simple idea like Bat Bites can turn a chilly, gray afternoon into tasty fun (with smears of peanut butter here and there and a few googly eyeballs on the floor). The grandchildren, their dad, and I had no trouble assembling our little bats or eating them. If you want to save time, buy unwrapped peanut butter cups, but unwrapping the cups will keep little hands busy longer. We left the candies sitting in their little brown paper cups to make it easier to pick the bats up from a serving plate.

If you like quick Halloween treat ideas, too, here are three more of my favorites. 

Ghost Cookies

Mummy Hand Pies

 Mummy Chocolate Chip Blondies

Halloween Bat Bites

Ingredients

Chocolate sandwich cookies

Mini peanut butter cups

Peanut butter

Edible eyeballs

 

Directions

Take the chocolate sandwich cookies apart and scrape away the filling (into a bowl or into someone’s mouth). Cut each cookie wafer in half. We found that a serrated knife worked best. These are the bat wings.

Dab a bit of peanut butter on the top of each peanut butter cup. Attach the wings in a bat-like manner.

Either dab more peanut butter onto the cup and press two eyes into it, or spread a bit of peanut butter onto the back of two eyes and press them onto the cup.

Voilà! You have bats. 

 

Out now!

All Shell Breaks Loose

Book 3 in the Haunted Shell Shop Mysteries!

 

 

On North Carolina’s Ocracoke Island, Maureen Nash sells exquisite seashells to locals and tourists—with Bonny the shop cat and the ghost of a Welsh pirate for company. And when needed, she steps in to help the police solve a murder . . .

Dr. Irving Allred is boasting around town that he’s about to get his hands on an authentic haunted sword. But minutes after Maureen hears the story, a woman walks into the Moon Shell, sword in hand. She found it while walking her bulldog on the beach—and its blade is stained with what looks like blood. Looks like it’s time to call the sheriff’s department.

Allred is furious that his prize is now in police custody—and even more agitated that an unknown buyer was trying to outbid him. He’s convinced the sword will lead him straight to the ghosts he’s been hunting. He’s not the only one on the Outer Banks who’s been searching for spirits, though. An odd visitor also showed up at Maureen’s shop claiming the ability to sense them . . . though somehow she didn’t seem to notice Maureen’s spectral friend hanging about.

When a man who’d been camping nearby is found cut down along the shore, Maureen starts providing some unofficial assistance to Captain Rob Tate by digging into the island’s maritime history. But it’s not the only mystery she’s facing—because the shop’s resident ghost is seeing ghosts himself . . .

Writing as Margaret Welch

 

Happy reading!

  

The Boston Globe says Molly MacRae writes “murder with a dose of drollery.” She’s the author of the award-winning, national bestselling Haunted Yarn Shop Mysteries, the Haunted Shell Shop Mysteries, and the Highland Bookshop Mysteries. As Margaret Welch, she writes books for Annie’s Fiction. Her short stories have appeared in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine and she’s a winner of the Sherwood Anderson Award for Short Fiction. Visit Molly on Facebook and Pinterest and connect with her on Instagram or Bluesky.