Halloween spider web biscuits
These spooky spider web biscuits are a fun Halloween treat kids will love making. Simply use an easy biscuit recipe and add some cobweb icing on top.
These Halloween spider web biscuits are a fun spooky treat. The iced cookies are really simple to make and can lend themselves to any kind of decoration so we added some simple icing and used skewers to make them look like cobwebs.
Halloween is such a fun time to do some baking with your kids, whether it’s monsters, spiders or these spiders’ webs, there are a lot of ways for kids to use their imagination. These spider web cookies are one of the quickest and easiest Halloween bakes, so they’re great for kid’s Halloween parties or for any occasion where you want some fun iced cookies!
How can kids help make spider web cookies?
My kids really enjoyed making the biscuits from measuring and mixing all the ingredients together to getting to decorate them. The cobweb is a simple effect that even little chefs can do – which gives them a real sense of achievement.
How do you pipe spider web on cookies/biscuits?
The spider web effect is really very easy to do when you know how. Start by mixing two colours of icing together or alternatively you can use melted chocolate instead of dark icing. You can spoon one colour on to your biscuits/cookies with the back of a spoon, but you’ll need to add the other colour to a piping bag or small freezer bag. Cut a tiny hole in one corner then pipe circles or spirals on top of the first icing (while it’s still wet). Drag a skewer or cocktail stick through the wet icing from the centre of the cookie to the outside. Repeat this step all the way round until it looks like a spiders web.
Other fun Halloween bakes
If you enjoyed making these monster cupcakes, you’ll love our other Halloween bakes:
Monster cookies
Halloween brownies
Halloween spider cookies
Halloween monster biscuits
Halloween monster cupcakes
Halloween skeleton biscuits
Halloween cake pops
Useful equipment
You might need the following baking tools/gadgets to make these spider web cookies
Digital scales
Freestanding mixer
Mixing bowl
Measuring cups
Measuring spoons
Wire rack
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Difficulty: Easy
Time: 45 minutes plus 10 minutes baking plus decorating
Serves: 2 dozen +
Ingredients
200g (7/8 cup) unsalted butter, softened
280g (1 ¼ cups) caster sugar
¼ tsp vanilla extract
1 egg
400g (3 1/5 cups) plain/all-purpose flour
A pinch of salt
½ tsp cream of tartar
To decorate
Icing sugar
food colouring
spinkles
googly eyes
how to make halloween spider web biscuits
Preheat the oven to 170C/160C Fan /325F and line several baking trays with baking paper.
Mix the butter, sugar and vanilla extract
Get your kids to help measure out the butter (200g), sugar (280g) and vanilla extract (1/4 tsp) and pop them in a large mixing bowl or freestanding mixer.
Cream them together until the mixture is light and fluffy.
Add the egg
Crack the egg in a small bowl and add to your mixture. Mix everything together. If you need to, use a spatula to scrape unmixed ingredients from the side of the bowl.
Add the dry ingredients
Measure the flour (400g), salt, cream of tartar (1/2 tsp) and add to the butter/sugar mixture. Mix everything together so it comes together into a ball of soft dough.
Make the spider web biscuits
Dust your work surface with a little flour and roll out your dough until it is about ½ a cm thick.
Use a round cutter to cut biscuits out and place them on your baking trays.
Bake the spider web biscuits
Pop the biscuits in the oven for around 10 minutes. They’re ready when the edges are starting to turn a little golden but the inside should still be pale.
Leave them to cool on the baking trays for a minute or two before removing them and placing them on a wire rack to cool completely.
Decorate the spider web biscuits
In two small bowls, mix some icing sugar (around 2-3 tbsp) with a few tsp of water. Leave one bowl white and add some black food colouring to the other. You want the icing to be runny enough to spread on the biscuit but not too runny.
We used our icing piper to pipe our cobwebs on but, if you don’t have one, just use a small freezer bag with a tiny hole cut in the corner.
To make the cobwebs get your kids to spoon on some white icing to a biscuit and spread it to the edges, then using the black icing pipe on a spiral or a series of circles. Get your kids to use a cocktail stick or skewer to trail a line from the middle of the biscuit to the edge. Repeat that a few times until the biscuit looks like a cobweb.
Enjoy!
Halloween spider web biscuits
Ingredients
Method
- Measure out the butter, sugar and vanilla extract and pop them in a large mixing bowl or freestanding mixer. Cream them together until the mixture is light and fluffy.
- Crack the egg in a small bowl and add to your mixture. Mix everything together. If you need to, use a spatula to scrape unmixed ingredients from the side of the bowl.
- Measure the flour, salt, cream of tartar and add to the butter/sugar mixture. Mix everything together so it comes together into a ball of soft dough.
- Dust your work surface with a little flour and roll out your dough until it is about ½ a cm thick.
- Use a round cutter to cut shapes out and place them on your baking trays.
- Pop the biscuits in the oven for around 10 minutes. They’re ready when the edges are starting to turn a little golden but the inside should still be pale.
- Leave them to cool on the baking trays for a minute or two before removing them and placing them on a wire rack to cool completely.
- In two small bowls, mix some icing sugar (around 2-3 tbsp) with a few tsp of water. Leave one bowl white and add some black food colouring to the other. You want the icing to be runny enough to spread on the biscuit but not too runny.
- We used our icing piper to pipe our cobwebs on but, if you don't have one, just use a small freezer bag with a tiny hole cut in the corner.
- To make the cobwebs spoon on some white icing to a biscuit and spread it to the edges, then using the black icing pipe on a spiral or a series of circles. Use a cocktail stick or skewer to trail a line from the middle of the biscuit to the edge. Repeat that a few times until the biscuit looks like a cobweb.
- Enjoy!
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