"A pinch of salt. . . A dash of squished toadstool. . . and a handful of chopped crickets. . . Mmmm Creepy Cookies!" Mrs. Saggybones muttered as she prepared the dough for her famous Halloween treats.
Her grandchildren were over to help before going trick or treating. "Ewww Grandma! We can't hand those out!"
"Of course we can, dears. It's Halloween!" she replied.
She put the cookies in the oven, and while they baked, she helped the kids get dressed in their costumes. To their disappointment, she wouldn't let them go until the cookies were done; she didn't want to leave the oven on while they were out.
When the cookies finished baking, and had sufficiently cooled, other children were already knocking at the door. Mrs. Saggybones' grandchildren were begging to go out by now, but before she took them out, she asked if they wanted to hand out cookies to the other kids.
Their faces changed to those of completely devious schemers. Hand out cricket cookies to the kids? Heh heh heh she could almost hear them thinking.
They gladly handed each and every kid a cookie, eager to see their reaction.
"Mmm crunchy!"
"With gooey bits!"
The kids shouted as they ate their cookies. Meanwhile Mrs. Saggybones' grandkids were lying on the floor, clutching their stomachs laughing.
". . . vanilla and cookie wafer pieces" Mrs. Saggybones could be heard speaking to another parent, but her grandkids had no idea what that meant. When they had recovered, they went eagerly out into the night to score as big of a haul of candy as they could.
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