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1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line pans with parchment paper.
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2. Sift cake mix into a large bowl, add oil, eggs, brown sugar and vanilla extract. Stir until dough forms. It's thick, you'll have to work for your cookies if you stir it by hand :)
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3. Make golf-ball sides dough balls and gently flatten them out a little so that they don't bake up too tall. (You don't have to flatten them as much as in my photos.)
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4. Bake for 6-8 minutes and let cool.
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5. Frosting: Beat butter. Add vanilla extract, unsweetened cocoa powder and milk. Slowly add in powdered sugar until you reach your desired consistency.
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6. Tongues: Unwrap Starburst squares and heat 2 at a time in the microwave for 5-9 seconds. Each microwave is different, but be careful because they can melt really fast! Remove from microwave and twist and turn the colors together and form a long "tongue" shape. Let cool of parchment paper.
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7. Prep the whites of the eyes by cutting each large marshmallow in half and set down sticky side up.
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8. To assemble (see photos), pipe a small amount of frosting on the bottom of a cookie. Place a "tongue" on the cookie and pipe more frosting on top. Top with another cookie. Use white chocolate chips to make the "teeth." Place marshmallow halves sticky side down onto the cookie. Use a little frosting to stick the Junior Mints on the marshmallows.
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NOTE: I placed the top cookie on at a slant like a mouth would open with the tallest point right above the tongue.