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!
I love, love, love making Halloween themed treats! Some of my favorites include our easy witches hat cookies, Monster Eyeball Pretzels and our Candy Corn Punch (perfect for your Halloween Party)! But nothing makes me happier than my Spider Cookies ….. and my new Meringue Ghosts (they are SO easy to make and only about 25 calories!)
Halloween Spider Cookies
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 costumers 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! These easy Halloween spider cookies will for sure be a hit with your kids! They are crazy easy to make and super delicious!!
These Spider Cookies are also a great project for your kids 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.
How to make Halloween Spider Cookies
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!
Ingredients needed to make Halloween Spider Cookies:
- Any type of homemade cookie – you can use a store bought refrigerated sugar cookie, homemade cookie or I used these super easy 3 ingredient, 15-minute cake mix cookies (find the recipe here).
- Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup
- Candy Eyes – I used this brand
- Melting Discs – you can use any brand, but I LOVE this brand to cook with!
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
Recipe Notes
Bake your 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 Prepare your drizzle chocolate according to the directions provided Take a Reese's and place some chocolate along the bottom and press the Reese's onto the divot in the cookie Let Reese's set Take your candy eyes and place a dab of melted chocolate on the back and place on the side of the Reese's Let eyes set Use your chocolate drizzle to make spiders legs on the cookie Let dry
More Great Halloween Treats
Nutter Butter Ghosts in the Graveyard Pudding Treats
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LOVE YOUR IDEAS, BUT VERY DIFFICULT TO PRINT!
We made the Witch*s hat last year ,my grand daughters had a blast….yummy
Question – do you use dark or milk chocolate for the drizzle?
I had a hard time pinning this to pinterest and couldn’t add it to Plan to Eat where I keep my recipes. The format doesn’t transfer. Otherwise super cute ideas! Can’t wait to try them. Thank you!
These are so cute and they also look delicious! Anything with Reeses is an automatic win with me 🙂
Love your ideas – for us here in the UK who follow you it’d be great to have the UK version of what you use – unless you do already and I just haven’t seen it eg we don’t have Reese but we could use Rolo’s. Thanks!
Thanks so much, Carolyn! I love my UK readers!! I am not all that familiar with the UK brands, but if there is something in particular you are looking for, I am always happy to brainstorm and research what we can replace it with!! Just shoot me a message!!!
xoxo
Hi,
I love these spider cookies! What did you use for the spider legs?
Thanks,
Pat
Hi Patricia – I used chocolate drizzle to do the legs.
Would it be possible for you to put a “PRINT” link for your site. It is very hard to copy and past this.
Thank you
Making these today. In the video the ‘cups’ are face up, in the pictures, they’re face down. I guess it doesn’t matter, but I think I’ll do the face up because it fits in my indentation better!! Thanks for all the fun creative recipes!!
Where do you get the candy eyes for the spider cookie?___arnparcrowe@yahoo.com
Here you go!! http://amzn.to/2wKQOI6
My son don’t like helping me with much, but he will have no problem helping me create these. Thanks for sharing