Halloween Spider Cookies are so much fun to make! A classic cookie recipe takes a creepy turn with a giant chocolate spider on top! Perfect addition to Halloween.
Hey! Sarah from Feeding Your Fam here to creep you out with this easy Halloween Cookie recipe! This is such a fun cookie to make for your family or Halloween parties!! These look like you may need to be an artist to make, but trust me, they are easy and you don’t need to be a professional to pull these Spider Cookies off!!
How to make The BEST Chocolate Chip Cookies:
After trying out multiple chocolate chip cookie recipes over many years, I have picked up several important tips for making the absolute BEST cookies!
- Make sure that you have enough flour in the dough. If the dough is too sticky, you may need to add a little bit of flour.
- Spend a little extra time when you mix the butter and sugars. Creaming them together for 2-3 minutes will improve the consistency of your cookies.
- Preheat the oven. This will help your cookies turn out right every time!
- Use a cookie scoop! If you want all your cookies to be perfectly shaped and have them all be the same size, a cookie scoop is the way to go.
- Use parchment paper or a silicone baking mat. Doing this will make it really easy to remove the cookies from your cookie sheet so that you don’t have to scrape them off the pan – they will just slide right off in perfect shape!
- Don’t over bake the cookies – when I take mine out of the oven, they still look slightly under baked but they will continue to bake on the cookie sheet for a couple more minutes so that’s ok!
What ingredients are in Spider Chocolate Chip Cookies?
- Flour
- Sugar
- Brown Sugar
- Egg
- Vanilla
- Baking Soda
- Salt
- Butter
- Chocolate Chips
For the spiders:
- Dark chocolate melting wafers
- Chocolate chips
- Sprinkles
Why do my cookies burn on the bottom but aren’t done in the middle?
If your cookies are always burning on the bottom, it is probably a cookie sheet issue! If you are using really dark cookie sheets, the bottoms of your baked goods will tend to burn before they are actually cooked all the way through. If you use a lot of cooking spray, the same result can happen. I prefer to use lighter colored non-stick pans so that I don’t have to use cooking spray at all. As mentioned above, I have been converted to silicone baking mats over the last couple of years and I love how easy it is for cookies to come off the tray – no sticking ever!
How to make Spider Chocolate Chip Cookies?
First, preheat your oven to 350ºF.
Start by mixing together the butter, sugars, egg and vanilla until they are well combined. In a separate bowl whisk together the flour, baking soda and salt.
Now, mix the flour mixture with the creamed butter and sugars. Add the flour in about 1 cup at a time and mix in between.
Add in the chocolate chips and stir to combine. The dough should be soft and not sticky.
Using a cookie scoop, drop the cookie dough onto an ungreased or parchment lined cookie sheet. If you don’t have a cookie scoop, you can use two spoons to scoop up the dough and place it on the cookie sheet.
Place the cookies about 2 inches apart as they will spread while baking.
Bake the cookies for 8-10 minutes, until golden around the edges.
Remove the cookies from the oven and place on a cooling rack. While the cookies are still warm start building your spiders.
Place one large chocolate melting wafer for the body and one chocolate chip for the head on the warm cookie. The chocolate will melt making it easy to draw out the spider legs.
Dip the tip of a toothpick into the melted chocolate body of the spider, use this to draw out the legs of the spider on the top of the chocolate chip cookie. Continue dipping into the chocolate to make all of the legs. The dipping chocolate works best for drawing on the legs, just let the chocolate chip melt to become the head of the spider.
To make the eyes for these Spider Chocolate Chip Cookies, simply drop a few sprinkles into the melted chocolate chip head of the spider. This is totally optional, these spider cookies still look creepy crawly without eyes.
Spider Chocolate Chip Cookies
Halloween Spider Cookies are so much fun to make! A classic cookie recipe takes a creepy turn with a giant chocolate spider on top!
Print Pin Rate
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes
Decorating Time: 10 minutes
Total Time: 30 minutes
Servings: 36
Calories: 251kcal
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 3/4 cup brown sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 egg
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 2 1/2 flour
- 2 cups chocolate chips, semi-sweet
Spider Ingredients
- 24 dark chocolate melting wafers
- 24 chocolate chips, semi-sweet
- sprinkles, optional
Instructions
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Preheat oven to 350ºF
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Cream together butter, sugar and brown sugar. Add egg and vanilla and mix until combined.
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In a separate bowl whisk together the flour, baking soda and salt. Add to the butter mixture one cup at a time mixing between.
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Fold in the chocolate chips.
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Scoop onto a cookie sheet and bake for 8-10 minutes. Remove from the oven and place on a cooling rack.
Making the Spiders
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While the cookies are still warm, place a melting wafer for the body and chocolate chip for the head on each cookie.
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Using a toothpick, dip it in the melted chocolate and draw out the legs of the spider on top of the cookie. Place sprinkles in the melted chocolate for the eyes.
Nutrition
Serving: 1g | Calories: 251kcal | Carbohydrates: 24g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 16g | Saturated Fat: 10g | Cholesterol: 20mg | Sodium: 119mg | Potassium: 176mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 19g | Vitamin A: 179IU | Calcium: 26mg | Iron: 2mg
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Why are my cookies flat?
If your chocolate chip cookies are flat and spread out too much while baking, you may need to add a little bit more flour. Start by just adding a few tablespoons of flour to the batter and see if that is enough to help the shape of your cookies.
Should I use butter or shortening in my cookies?
I’ve made great chocolate chip cookies with butter and I’ve made great cookies with shortening – both can work very well! This particular chocolate chip cookie recipe uses butter but many of the other chocolate chip cookie recipes I’ve tried have called for shortening. My other favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe calls for butter-flavored shortening which makes them absolutely amazing. For a long time, I wasn’t very happy with any of the recipes I tried that used butter so I began to think that shortening was the key to perfect chocolate chip cookies. Until I found this recipe!
Halloween Spider Cookies are so much fun to make! A classic cookie recipe takes a creepy turn with a giant chocolate spider on top! Perfect addition to Halloween.
