Halloween spider cookies
Fun Halloween spider cookies. A simple, spooky bake kids will love this Halloween.
Halloween spider cookies are a really fun and easy Halloween bake for kids to do.
Halloween is the perfect excuse to do some fun baking with kids. There are lots of really simple things you can do and just give them a spooky twist and these Halloween spider cookies do just that. We took an easy cookie recipe and just decorated them at the end with spiders made from Maltesers and chocolate chips. The kids really loved making them and when we shared them with friends they were a real hit!
You could use your favourite cookie recipe or a pre-made cookie mix and just add the decorations at the end or follow the recipe below. I found the eyes in a supermarket but if yours doesn’t have them you can find them online. Or make your spiders without the eyes. We left a few of ours and the cookies still look really good. If anything, they look a little more like spiders and a little less ‘cute’ so they’re perfect for a spooky Halloween treat.
We’ve got lots of other fun Halloween baking ideas you can make with your kids. See what other Halloween treats your kids might love.
How can kids helps make Halloween spider cookies?
This is a really simple recipe for kids, so there’s lots for them to help with. From measuring the ingredients and mixing them all together to make the cookies, to decorating the spiders at the end.
You can make life really easy and use a cookie mix, as the fun starts once the cookies are made.
There’s few different ways to make spiders on the cookies. The large spiders are just a Malteser (or any other round chocolate), with some icing legs added. The small spiders are chocolate chips, with legs added.
Children will enjoy getting to add the legs and eyes to the spiders although really young children, might find piping neat legs a bit tricky.
Other fun Halloween bakes
If you enjoyed making these spider cookies, you’ll love our other Halloween bakes:
Monster cookies
Halloween brownies
Halloween monster cupcakes
Halloween monster biscuits
Spider web biscuits
Useful equipment
You might need the following baking tools/gadgets to make these Halloween spider cookies:
Digital scales
Freestanding mixer
Mixing bowl
Wooden spoon
Measuring cups
Measuring spoons
Baking tray
Wire rack
Googly eyes
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Difficulty: Easy
Time: 30 minutes plus 10 minutes baking
Serves: 15
Ingredients
100g (1/2 cup) butter, softened
125g (2/3 cup) golden caster sugar
½ tsp vanilla extract
1 large egg, beaten
150g (1 1/8 cup) self-raising flour
100g (1/2 cup) plain chocolate chips
To decorate
Chocolate chips
Maltesers
Black ice writers
how to make halloween spider cookies
Preheat your oven to 190C/170C Fan/375F and line 3 baking trays with baking parchment/paper.
Mix the butter and sugar together
Get your little one to measure butter (100g) and pop it into a large mixing bowl or freestanding mixer. Measure the sugar (125g) and add to the mixing bowl.
Beat the butter and sugar together with the k-paddle of your mixer, a hand held mixer or just some wooden spoons, until they are evenly blended and look a bit light and fluffy.
Add the vanilla extract and egg
Get your little one to help you measure the vanilla extract (1/2 tsp) and add to your mixing bowl.
Crack the egg in a small bowl (it’s easier to fish out, the shell if you don’t put it straight into your mixing bowl). Give it a little whisk and then add it gradually to your mixing bowl, beating it well between each addition.
Add the flour
Weigh the flour into a small bowl then add to your mixture. Finally add the chocolate chips and give it one final mix.
Bake the Halloween spider cookies
Spoon large teaspoons of the cookie mixture on to your prepared baking trays. Make sure you leave enough room for them to spread.
Bake the cookies in the oven for about 8-10 minutes. They’re ready when they are turning golden. I like them a little gooey in the middle still. If you don’t cook them a minute or two longer. Don’t leave them in too long though as they’ll turn dark brown very quickly.
Decorate the spider cookies
Remove the cookies from the oven and, if your little ones are helping to decorate them, carefully place them on to a wire rack. You can leave them on the baking trays if you’re doing it yourself, being careful not to burn yourself!
Add either a malteser or a few chocolate chips (or both) to each of your cookies while they’re still warm. Push them down a little so they stick to the cookie.
Leave the cookies to cool, then draw the spider’s legs on with the black writing icing. If you don’t have black icing writers, you can mix up some thick icing and add some black food colouring, then add it to a piping bag, or small freezer bag with a small hole cut in it.
Melt a sqare of chocolate and use that to stick the candy eyes on to your maltesers.
Enjoy! The cookies will keep for a few days in an air tight container.
Halloween cookies
Ingredients
- 100 g (1/2 cup) butter, softened
- 125 g (2/3 cup) golden caster sugar
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
- 1 large egg beaten
- 150 g (1 1/8 cup) self-raising flour
- 100 g (1/2 cup) plain chocolate chips
To decorate
- Chocolate chips
- Black writing icing
Instructions
Preheat your oven to 190C/180C Fan / 375F and line 3 baking trays with baking parchment/paper.
Mix the butter and sugar together
- Measure butter and pop it into a large mixing bowl or freestanding mixer. Measure the sugar and add to the mixing bowl.
- Mix the butter and sugar together until they are evenly blended.
Add the vanilla extract and egg
- Measure the vanilla extract and add to your mixing bowl. Crack the egg in a small bowl. Give it a little whisk and then add it gradually to your mixing bowl, beating it well between each addition.
Add the flour
- Weigh the flour into a small bowl then add to your mixture. Finally add the chococlate chips and give it one final mix.
Make the cookies
- Spoon large teaspoons of the cookie mixture on to your prepared baking trays Make sure you leave enough room for them to spread.
- Bake in the oven for about 8-10 minutes. They’re ready when they are turning golden. I like them a little gooey in the middle still. If you don’t cook them a minute or two longer.
Decorate the cookies
- Remove the cookies from the oven and carefully place them on to a wire rack. Place a few chocolate chips or Maltesers on them while they are still warm. These will form the spider’s bodies.
- Leave them to cool a bit more and then pipe the black icing on to create the legs.
- Enjoy! The cookies will keep for a few days in an air tight container.
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Thanks for sharing, these look a lovely idea to do with kids, also for us grown ups to 🙂
Definitely not just for kids (I love a Malteser spider too!)
These look such fun I am very tempted to make them even though I have no kids at home. They still appeal to the big child in each of us.
They do. Plus I can never resist a Malteser (even in the form of a spider!)
They are the pefect mix of cute and creepy!!
Thanks! I couldn’t cope with full on creepy so I think the eyes add a touch of well needed cuteness!
These are so cute and I bet a lot of fun to make. I love cookies so these are right up my street. Thanks for linking to #CookBlogShare.
Yes, they were a fun Halloween bake. We probably wish we’d added fewer spiders (or at least wished spiders had fewer legs) when it came to all the piping though!
These are so cute! My kids love anything Halloween themed at the moment.
Thanks. We can’t do what we’d normally do at Halloween this year but at least there’s Halloween baking!
These spider Halloween cookies are so incredibly cute, my children would happily chomp away on them. Commenting as BritMums Baking Round-up Editor. 🙂
Thanks, we took them to a toddler group and they were gone in seconds. I think they couldn’t resist the bonus Malteser!