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You are here: Home / recipe / How to Bake Simple, Silly Spider Cookies for Halloween

How to Bake Simple, Silly Spider Cookies for Halloween

By Jen

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It’s that time of the year again. Time to start thinking about Halloween treats to make for school parties and Halloween crafts to make at home. These funny silly spider cookies are not difficult to make and they use a whole wheat cookie as the base. I’m not sure if that makes them technically “healthy”, but it’s a pretty good start.

halloween spider cookies

If you don’t have time to bake a batch of cookies, use the decorating technique to add spiders to your favourite store bought chocolate chip cookie. Simple, delicious and silly – perfect Halloween treat for kids.

How to Bake Silly Spider Cookies

3 cups whole wheat flour
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
1 cup brown sugar
1 large egg
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup chocolate chips

Decorations

1 cup icing sugar
1 tbsp meringue powder
1 tbsp water
black gel colour
mini rolo 
edible eyes

Method

Begin by whisking together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a small bowl.

Blend together the butter, sugar, egg, and vanilla in a large bowl – until it is creamy.

Add dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and stir in chocolate chips, until all ingredients are combined.

Now that the dough is ready, scoop 1 tbsp of dough onto parchment-lined baking sheet. Cookies will spread, and placed 2 inches apart.

Bake for 12-15 minutes in a 350°F oven…until golden brown on the edges.whole wheat chocolate chip cookies
Let cookies sit on a baking sheet for 5 minutes, transfer to a cooling rack and wait until they are completely cooled before decorating.

Mix icing sugar, meringue powder and water in a small bowl. Add more icing sugar to make the icing thicker. The icing is being used as glue, therefore you want it to be quite thick.

Scoop icing into a small resealable bag and cut a small opening in the one corner of the bag…make sure the hole is small…this will determine the thickness of the spider’s legs.spider cookies rolo
Squeeze a glob of icing onto the cookie, where you want the spider to sit, and press the mini Rolo into the icing.
spider cookies with eyes
Squeeze two small globs of icing onto the mini Rolo, where you want the eyes to be, and press the eyes into the icing.spider cookies eyes
Use the icing to draw the spider legs…spiders have 6 legs.
spider cookies 3
Enjoy your silly Halloween spider cookies! Do you think they’ll scare your friends? Hmm, not so sure about that.

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Silly Spider Cookies

Whole wheat chocolate chip spider cookies for Halloween.
Prep Time10 minutes mins
Cook Time15 minutes mins
Total Time25 minutes mins
Course: cookie, Dessert
Cuisine: American, canadian
Keyword: chocolate recipe, cookies, halloween recipe
Servings: 24 cookies
Calories: 152kcal
Author: Jen

Ingredients

  • 3 cups whole wheat flour
  • 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 cup unsalted butter room temperature
  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 cup chocolate chips

Instructions

  • Begin by whisking together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a small bowl.
  • Blend together the butter, sugar, egg, vanilla in a large bowl - until it is creamy.
  • Add dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and stir in chocolate chips, until all ingredients are combined.
  • Now that the dough is ready, scoop 1 tbsp of dough onto parchment lined baking sheet. Cookies will spread, place 2 inches apart.
  • Bake for 12-15 minutes in a 350°F oven...until golden brown on edges.
  • Let cookies sit on baking sheet for 5 minute, transfer to cooling rack and wait until they are completely cooled before decorating.

Decorating the Cookies

  • Mix icing sugar, meringue powder and water in small bowl. Add more icing sugar to make the icing thicker. The icing is being used like glue, therefore you want it to be quite thick.
  • Scoop icing into small resealable bag and cut a small opening in the one corner of the bag...make sure the hole is small...this will be determine the thickness of the spider's legs.
  • Squeeze a glob of icing onto the cookie, where you want the spider to sit, and press the mini Rolo into the icing.
  • Squeeze two small globs of icing onto the mini Rolo, where you want the eyes to be, and press the eyes into the icing.
  • Use the icing to draw the spider legs...spiders have 6 legs.

Notes

Nutrition Info is to be used as a rough guide. Nutrition Info is based on the products I am using and you may not be using the same products/brands. Thus, the Nutrition Info may vary.

Nutrition

Serving: 37g | Calories: 152kcal | Carbohydrates: 19.96g | Protein: 2.77g | Fat: 7.34g | Saturated Fat: 4g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.86g | Monounsaturated Fat: 2.03g | Trans Fat: 0.015g | Cholesterol: 18mg | Sodium: 183mg | Potassium: 105mg | Fiber: 1.8g | Sugar: 6.4g | Vitamin A: 170IU | Calcium: 24mg | Iron: 0.95mg
Serving: 37g | Calories: 152kcal | Carbohydrates: 19.96g | Protein: 2.77g | Fat: 7.34g | Saturated Fat: 4g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.86g | Monounsaturated Fat: 2.03g | Trans Fat: 0.015g | Cholesterol: 18mg | Sodium: 183mg | Potassium: 105mg | Fiber: 1.8g | Sugar: 6.4g | Vitamin A: 170IU | Calcium: 24mg | Iron: 0.95mg

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