Spooky Spider Cookies!
These cookies are so easy to make and perfect for litle hands to help with.
Ingredients
- Any type of cookie will work. You can use homemade cookies, or if you are in a rush, pre-made cookie dough (or even store bought cookies) can work.
- Mini Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
- Candy Eyes
- Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips
Instructions
Bake Cookies as directed. As you pull them out of the oven use a teaspoon-measuring spoon to make divots in the middle of the cookie and then allow the cookies to cool completely.
While you are waiting for your cookies to cool, place a cup of chocolate chips in a bowl and microwave them in intervals of 12 seconds until they are completely melted. You will use this melted chocolate to drizzle the legs onto the cookies.
Now place Your Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups in the middle of the cookie where your divot is. By placing a dap of melted chocolate on the back of the candy eyes, you can then stick them into place on the peanut butter cups. Lastly, use your melted chocolate to drizzle the spiders legs onto the cookies. I used the smallest tip on my Wilton cake decorating set. Let the melted chocolate dry.
Make The Spider Body and Legs
To create the spider body, place your Reese’s Peanut
Butter Cups in the middle of the cookie where your divot is. Make sure to get the peanut butter cup right in the center of each cookie.
Next, add the candy eyes by placing a dap of melted chocolate on the back of the candy eyeballs you can stick them into place on the peanut butter cups. Make sure your candy eyes are firmly in place before continuing.
Lastly, use your melted chocolate to drizzle the chocolate spiders legs onto the cookies which will finish the spider’s body. Run your chocolate off the side of the cookies from the Reese’s cups to the bottom of the cookies.
*Just make sure that you allow the cookies to cool after whatever cookie recipes you use. A too warm cookie will cause the chocolate legs to run, so wait to do that step on the top of each cookie until the cookies have sat on the cooling rack for a bit.
