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Halloween Treat: Spooky Spider Cookies

These Spooky Halloween Spider cookies are so fun to make with mini Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups and delicious cookies! 

These spooky spider cookies are so fun and so easy to make with Mini Reese's Peanut Butter cups and perfect for Halloween!

Halloween Spider Cookies

Aren’t they the cutest?? I love simple and I love fun halloween treats. These easy Halloween cookies are one of our Halloween favorites!

These Spooky Spider cookies are so fun to make (the kids will love helping you) and they also make for a fun treat to bring to Halloween parties and gatherings.

The kids love the little eyeballs and all of the spooky (ok, cute!) spider cookies look awesome on the table and are a quick easy treat that will go perfectly with your decor! So much fun! 

Items Needed to make Spider Cookies

Any type of cookie will work. You can use homemade cookies, or if you are in a rush, pre-made cookie dough (or even store bought cookies) can work.
Mini Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups (make sure to get the mini peanut butter cup size)
Candy Eyes
Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips

How to make Spider Cookies

Bake cookies as directed. As you pull them out of the oven use a teaspoon-measuring spoon to make divots in the middle of the cookie and then allow the cookies to cool completely.

While you are waiting for your cookies to cool, place a cup of chocolate chips in a bowl and microwave them in intervals of 12 seconds until they are completely melted. You will use this melted chocolate to drizzle the spider legs onto the cookies.

We love these chocolate chip spider cookies but a close second favorite for Halloween are peanut butter spider cookies, made exactly the same way! If you are really in a rush, we’ve also made these using pre-made dough (sugar cookies are yummy and you can find that dough in the refrigerated section at the grocery store)

Make cute Halloween cookies by using mini Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and drawing chocolate legs

Make The Spider Body and Legs

To create the spider body, place your Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups in the middle of the cookie where your divot is. Make sure to get the peanut butter cup right in the center of each cookie.

Next, add the candy eyes by placing a dap of melted chocolate on the back of the candy eyeballs you can stick them into place on the peanut butter cups. Make sure your candy eyes are firmly in place before continuing.

Lastly, use your melted chocolate to drizzle the chocolate spiders legs onto the cookies which will finish the spider’s body. Run your chocolate off the side of the cookies from the Reese’s cups to the bottom of the cookies.

*Just make sure that you allow the cookies to cool after whatever cookie recipes you use. A too warm cookie will cause the chocolate legs to run, so wait to do that step on the top of each cookie until the cookies have sat on the cooling rack for a bit.

Spooky Spider Halloween Cookies made with peanut butter cups and candy eyes

I used the smallest tip on my Wilton cake decorating set to draw the legs with the chocolate frosting / melted chocolate.

Let the melted chocolate dry on top of the cookies before you serve them – you might even want to put them in the fridge to set up a bit.

These easy Halloween spider cookies are such a fun Halloween treat that is also one of our favorite recipes to make during the fall and this is a recipe that the kids will love helping with as well! Fun Halloween desserts are one of my favorite things about this time of year and nothing says Happy Halloween like gross food recipes, am I right?

My kids get the biggest kick out of Halloween dessert ideas like this and I love this particular recipes because it’s so simple – so fun and it’s easy to make and has an easy cleanup as well!

Cute Spider Cookies for Halloween

Print the Recipe for these Cute Halloween Cookies

Spider Cookie for Halloween

Halloween Treat: Spooky Spider Cookies

Perfect for Halloween, these spooky spider cookies will be a hit at your Halloween party! Easy to make, they also look wonderful on your Halloween party table!

Ingredients

  • Any type of cookie will work. You can use homemade cookies, or if you are in a rush, pre-made cookie dough (or even store bought cookies) can work.
  • Mini Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
  • Candy Eyes
  • Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips

Instructions

    Bake Cookies as directed. As you pull them out of the oven use a teaspoon-measuring spoon to make divots in the middle of the cookie and then allow the cookies to cool completely.
    While you are waiting for your cookies to cool, place a cup of chocolate chips in a bowl and microwave them in intervals of 12 seconds until they are completely melted. You will use this melted chocolate to drizzle the legs onto the cookies.
    Now place Your Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups in the middle of the cookie where your divot is. By placing a dap of melted chocolate on the back of the candy eyes, you can then stick them into place on the peanut butter cups. Lastly, use your melted chocolate to drizzle the spiders legs onto the cookies. I used the smallest tip on my Wilton cake decorating set. Let the melted chocolate dry.

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Looking for other fun and spooky Halloween party ideas?

Kids will always get SO much candy for Halloween so it’s fun to bring in a few non-candy Halloween treats or recipe ideas to kind of balance things out.

Make sure to check out my Spiderweb Soup recipe or my Deviled Egg Spider Recipes. OR, if you are looking for something truly gross, how about my Dirty Ear Wax Q-Tip treats (shown below and not for the faint of heart!) … happy baking and haunting!

Dirty Qtip treat anyone? They might be gross to look at, but they will be a spooky hit at your Halloween party!

MORE Favorite Halloween Recipes & Crafts

If you are looking for more fun Halloween recipe and craft ideas, make sure to check out these favorites: 

Yummy Spider Webs Treat + FREE Printable

Easy Halloween Jack O’Lantern Quesadilla 

Easy Halloween Jack O’Lantern Burgers

Spooky Halloween Donuts with Teeth

Halloween Mummy Candle Holder Craft



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23 Comments

  1. Thanks for this neat idea, but note: spiders have 8 legs. That’s a good thing: it means MORE CHOCOLATE!!!

  2. Thanks Mark! We actually modeled this after the very rare African 6 legged spider. Just kidding. I try to know as little about spiders as possible, although great point, more legs = more chocolate!!

  3. Totally cool. Love this idea.
    I tried to sign up to receive your posts by email and it wouldn’t work. 🙁

  4. Susan, I’m so sorry. I wonder why it isn’t working? I can have my tech guy look into the issue if you can tell me what went wrong? Let me know if you need something emailed to you, happy to help! You should also see an email sign up at the top of the blog. Thank you!

  5. I’m not sure why it didn’t work. When I made the comment though I checked to receive posts by email so hopefully it will work.

  6. Super cute! Pinned it and will make them for my Reeces loving kids for Halloween. Thanks for sharing on Share Your Style

  7. These Halloween idea will be great this year for my grandkids Halloween party, ages 5 and 10, they will love them. Thanks for sharing. I love it.

  8. Such cute & fun spider cookies for Halloween. I’ll be featuring this tomorrow at Merry Monday. Hope to see you at the party.

  9. These spider cookies are super cute! Festive and yummy combination too. Pinning! I’m visiting today from the Lou Lou Girls link up. Have a great week Keri Lyn!

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