This recipe is adapted from Cookies for Everyone!, Halloween cookie cutters, a little icing and some fun spider candies make them "spook"-tacular bites for your favorite ghouls and boys.
Author: Enjoy Life Foods
Serves: about 24 cookies
Ingredients
½ cup unsweetened applesauce
⅓ cup water
⅓ cup vegetable oil (or neutral baking oil of choice)
Preheat oven to 350ºF (180ºC or gas mark 4) and lightly grease an 11x17-inch jelly roll pan.
With a mixer; beat applesauce, water, oil, vanilla, cocoa and sugar until smooth. Add flour, salt and baking powder and mix until well combined. Stir in chocolate chips.
Spoon batter onto the prepared jelly roll pan.
Bake for 7 minutes, rotate the pan and bake for an additional 9 minutes.
Let cool completely, then cut into squares or shapes with cookie cutters. Decorate as desired with powdered sugar, dairy-free icing, and/or "safe" candies.