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Our Halloween Spider Cookies are the easiest and cutest Halloween dessert ever! All you need is your favorite cookie, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, candy eyes, and some chocolate drizzle!
These cookies are a great project to do with your kids or for a Halloween Classroom Party!
Easy Halloween Recipe
Anyone who knows me knows that Halloween is one of my favorite times of the year! I go all out on Halloween – the decorations, the costumes and THE FOOD! That is why I love, love, love these Easy Halloween Spider Cookies! They are cute, easy to make and the kids adore them! They will for sure be a hit with your kids! They are crazy easy to make and super delicious!!
Spider Cookies are also a great project for your kid’s classroom Halloween Parties. What is so great is that they get to make them and then eat them! Kills two birds with one stone – project and treat!
We used our 3 ingredient cake mix cookies for this recipe. They are delicious and take less than 15 minutes to make! If you don’t want to make your own cookies, you can even use store-bought cookies or pre-made refrigerated cookie dough. That works awesome too!
While I am mostly about the food for Halloween, I also love to decorate. If you are looking for an easy Halloween decoration, be sure to try our Tomato Cage Ghosts. They are a great decoration for your front porch or lawn.
Halloween Spider Cookies Ingredients
- Any type of homemade cookie – you can use a store-bought refrigerated sugar cookie, homemade cookie, peanut butter blossom cookie, or I used these super easy 3 ingredients, 15-minute cake mix cookies (find the recipe here).
- Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup
- Candy Eyes – I used this brand – I found mine at Michaels, but they have them at my local grocery store too. They should be super easy to find, but you can always get them through the link above online (affiliate link).
- Candy Melts – you can use any brand, but I LOVE this brand to cook with!
How To Make Halloween Cookies
- Grab your cookie.
- Melt the chocolate candy melts and place in pastry piping bag or ziplock bag (see note below)
- Pipe chocolate on the bottom of the peanut butter cup and let it set on the cookie.
- Pipe two dabs on the peanut butter cup and place eyes and let set.
- Pipe spider legs on the cookie.
Pro-Tips & Notes for Halloween Cookies
- I used the back of a spoon to make a little divot in the cookie. This gives a nice place to rest the peanut butter cup. You can also use the end of a wooden spoon. Totally optional step.
- If you don’t have a pastry bag, grab a ziplock baggie and put the chocolate in it. Cut the bottom corner of the bag off (just a little tiny corner). This will work great too!
- These decorating tweezers are a lifesaver. They will make putting the eyes on so much easier. They are great to have on hand for other decorating projects as well.
- Chill the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups before you begin. It will make them much easier to work with because they won’t get all melty!
More Halloween Desserts
Witches hat cookies | Monster Eyeball Pretzels | Candy Corn Punch | Meringue Ghosts | Monster Eyeball Pretzels | Zombie Eyeballs Pretzels | Halloween Chex Mix | Halloween Bark | Monster Sprinkle Cookies
Halloween Spider Cookies
Ingredients
- 16 Sugar Cookies Make your own, use refrigerated cookie dough or use my 3 ingredient cake mix cookies (see link above)
- 16 Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Minis
- 36 Candy Eyes
- 1 bag Chocolate Candy Melts
Instructions
- Bake cookies as directed.
- As soon as you pull them from the oven, use the bottom of a teaspoon measurer and gently press a divot into the cookie.
- Let the cookies cool completely.
- Melt the candy melts and place either in a pastry bag or use a zip lock baggie and cut of the corner.
- Take a Reese’s and place some melted chocolate along the bottom and press the Reese’s onto the divot in the cookie.
- Let the Reese's set and dry.
- Take your candy eyes and place a dab of melted chocolate on the back and place on the side of the Reese’s .
- Use the melted chocolate to pipe "spider legs" on the cookie.
- Let all of the chocolate dry, serve and enjoy!
- Serve and enjoy
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Notes
- I used the back of a spoon to make a little divot in the cookie. This gives a nice place to rest the peanut butter cup. You can also use the end of a wooden spoon. Totally optional step.
- If you don’t have a pastry bag, grab a ziplock baggie and put the chocolate in it. Cut the bottom corner of the bag off (just a little tiny corner). This will work great too!
- These decorating tweezers are a lifesaver. They will make putting the eyes on so much easier. They are great to have on hand for other decorating projects as well.
- Chill the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups before you begin. It will make them much easier to work with because they won’t get all melty!
Nutrition
Nutrition Disclosure
Nutrition information is an estimate. Please utilize your own brand information to double check against our estimates.
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