Can you believe that Halloween is less than 2 weeks away? With Halloween costumes and decorations still to make, I’m looking for some simple Halloween snacks that can be whipped up in a jiffy. Jamie from Searching4Savings.com has a really fun guest recipe post for us today. Her Spider Chip Cookies for Halloween start off with a delicious chocolate chip cookie recipe and get finished off with a spooky spider surprise.
First you make the chocolate chip cookies (recipe below). Next, you use black gel frosting to add some super spooky spiders.
Here’s a spider in the making…
Spooky Spider Chip Cookies for Halloween
Spider Chip Cookies for Halloween
Recipe Type: Dessert
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Ingredients
- 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened
- 3/4 cup white sugar
- 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 large eggs
- 2 cups (12-oz. pkg.) Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips
- [b]Spiders: [/b]
- Black Gel Frosting
- Red Gel Frosting (Optional)
Instructions
- [b]Cookie Instructions:[/b]
- In a large bowl combine flour, baking soda and salt.
- In a separate bowl, beat together butter, white sugar, brown sugar and vanilla.
- Using a stand mixer (or hand mixer) add eggs one at time to butter mixture, beating well after each addition. Continue to beat mixture until creamy.
- Slowly add in your dry ingredients to your wet ingredients, mixing well and scraping the sides of the bowl down. Mix until all ingredients are well combined.
- Fold in chocolate chips.
- Refrigerate dough for 1-2 hours, or until chilled through.
- Drop 1 inch sized balls of dough onto a well greased cookie sheet and bake at 375 degrees for 9-10 minutes.
- [b]Spider Instructions:[/b]
- Allow cookies to cool on a baking rack. Once cookies have cooled completely, add a small dot of black gel frosting.
- Using a toothpick, pull the frosting out at 4 corners to create the main 4 legs of your spider.
- Continuing pulling out 2 additional legs on each side, in between the larger lines.
- Drop a small dot of red gel frosting onto the bottom of the spider to give it a Black Widow look.
Spider Chip Cookies for Halloween
Ingredients
- 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened
- 3/4 cup white sugar
- 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 large eggs
- 2 cups (12-oz. pkg.) Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips
- [b]Spiders: [/b]
- Black Gel Frosting
- Red Gel Frosting (Optional)
Instructions
- In a large bowl combine flour, baking soda and salt.
- In a separate bowl, beat together butter, white sugar, brown sugar and vanilla.
- Using a stand mixer (or hand mixer) add eggs one at time to butter mixture, beating well after each addition. Continue to beat mixture until creamy.
- Slowly add in your dry ingredients to your wet ingredients, mixing well and scraping the sides of the bowl down. Mix until all ingredients are well combined.
- Fold in chocolate chips.
- Refrigerate dough for 1-2 hours, or until chilled through.
- Drop 1 inch sized balls of dough onto a well greased cookie sheet and bake at 375 degrees for 9-10 minutes.
- [b]Spider Instructions:[/b]
- Allow cookies to cool on a baking rack. Once cookies have cooled completely, add a small dot of black gel frosting.
- Using a toothpick, pull the frosting out at 4 corners to create the main 4 legs of your spider.
- Continuing pulling out 2 additional legs on each side, in between the larger lines.
- Drop a small dot of red gel frosting onto the bottom of the spider to give it a Black Widow look.
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what a COOL idea!!!! I never would’ve thought to do that but they look awesome! 🙂
ohhh creepy! spider chip cookies!
What an awesome idea for some Halloween treats! And everyone loves chocolate chip cookies. Yummy and erie!
Very spooky! I looks like they were made from the chocolate chips.
Aw, those are so cute! And so easy to make!
Man that looks real!!! Super cute and I love how easy to make.. now I am craving some cookies!!!
That is awesome, I never would have thought to do that!
What a fun and super easy way to add some spooky whimsy to a family fave! Love this idea with the spooky spiders! Thanks for posting!
What a cute idea and looks pretty easy to do! My grandsons would love the spiders on their cookies!
How cute!!! I think kids would flip when they see these.
Those are really cute! Does the gel dry? Those would be a great idea for tonight’s concession sales.
what acute idea that kids would love
I have such a spider phobia that I couldn’t eat these, lol…but my kids would think they are great!
These are really super awesome!! I would love to surprise my kids with a batch as an after school snack.
No, I can’t believe Halloween is so close now. I think these cookies are so cute! The little spider really makes it. Great idea!!
These are such a cute idea!
Love this! What a neat idea!
These look amazing! I just may have to make some of these for my kids next weekend!
wow that is a fabulous and creative Idea we’ll definitely have to make these up.
Those totally look like little spiders. Love it!
that’s such a great idea and so simple, some of the halloween treat ideas I’ve seen lately cool effect but way too complicated to attempt, thanks for sharing
Looks fun and yummy!
I bet these are as good as they are cute. I want some now!!
Those are awesome! What a great idea, and so easy to do too!
Oh what a fun idea for the holiday. I would love to make these and not tell the kids and see what they say at first LOL.
i love this idea!! so cute!
those are so adorable – my daughter would freak out with them though! I relocated a spider from our living room to outside today and she freaked out!
That is definitely different!
THIS IS A GREAT RECIPE I MUST TRY –I LOVE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES THE BEST!!!!!
Super creepy! Love the spider.