Creepy crawly spider cookies

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       Title: Creepy Crawly Spider Cookies
  Categories: Cookies
       Yield: 36 servings
  
       2 c  Chocolate chips,semi-sweet
            Divided
     1/2 c  Crispy-rice cereal
     1/4 c  Shredded coconut
   1 1/2 c  Chow mein noodles
            Cake decorator frosting
            = in tube; if desired
  
       Melt 1 cup of chocolate chips in a heavy saucepan over low heat. Mix in
   the cereal and the coconut. Drop teaspoonfuls of the mixture onto waxed
   paper for the spiders' bodies. Melt the second cup of chocolate chips.
   Gently stir in chow mein noodles.  When chocolate is cooled, pick noodles
   out one by one and attach them to the spider bodies for legs (8 to a
   spider).  Add dots of frosting for eyes, if desired. Leftover chocolate
   noodles can be made into more spider cookies.
  
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