Michelle Darmody: Share the scares with these Halloween monster cookies — and not the common mistakes

There are endless possibilities, gingerbread pumpkin biscuits, shortbread witches fingers, meringue ghosts, skeleton cupcakes, or you can even make a simple ghoulish chocolate bark.
The week before Halloween is a great excuse to bake something fun and whimsical.
It is a lovely time of year to have the oven on and the smell of baking to warm the house.