Our Halloween Spider Cookies are the easiest and cutest Halloween dessert ever! All you need is your favorite cookie, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, candy eyes, and some chocolate drizzle!
These cookies are a great project to do with your kids or for a Halloween Classroom Party!
Easy Halloween Recipe
Anyone who knows me knows that Halloween is one of my favorite times of the year! I go all out on Halloween – the decorations, the costumes and THE FOOD!
That is why I love, love, love these Easy Halloween Spider Cookies! They are cute, easy to make and the kids adore them!
See why they have been shared more than 50,000 times on Facebook and have gone crazy viral on Pinterest! They will for sure be a hit with your kids! They are crazy easy to make and super delicious!!
Spider Cookies are also a great project for your kid’s classroom Halloween parties. What is so great is that they get to make them and then eat them! Kills two birds with one stone – project and treat!
Also – be sure to check out our Peanut Butter Spider Cookies! Perfect for the peanut butter and chocolate lover!
Why We Love to Make These Halloween Spider Cookies
- Fun Halloween treat to make with kids.
- Uses our 3 ingredient cake mix cookies or your favorite already-made cookies! (We love to use Peanut Butter Cookies as a base as well!)
- Perfect for a school party or Halloween party treat.
- The cute candy eyes on the spider head is just beyond cute and delicious.
We used our 3 ingredient cake mix cookies for this recipe. They are delicious and take less than 15 minutes to make! If you don’t want to make your own cookies, you can even use store-bought cookies or pre-made refrigerated cookie dough. That works awesome too!
More Easy Halloween Treats
Halloween Spider Cookies Ingredients
- Any type of homemade cookie – you can use a store-bought refrigerated sugar cookie, homemade cookie, already made store-bought cookies or I used these super easy 3 ingredients, 15-minute cake mix cookies (find the recipe here).
- Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup – you will want to use the mini peanut butter cups
- Candy Eyes – I used this brand – I found mine at Michaels, but they have them at my local grocery store too. They should be super easy to find, but you can always get them through the link above online (affiliate link).
- Candy Melts – you can use any brand, but I LOVE this brand to cook with!
How To Make Halloween Spider Cookies
- Grab your cookie.
- Melt the chocolate candy melts and place in pastry piping bag or ziplock bag (see note below)
- Pipe chocolate on the bottom of the peanut butter cup and let it set on the cookie.
- Pipe two dabs on the peanut butter cup and place eyes and let set.
- Pipe spider legs on the cookie.
Pro Tip!
- I used the back of a spoon to make a little divot in the cookie. This gives a nice place to rest the peanut butter cup. You can also use the end of a wooden spoon. Totally optional step.
- If you don’t have a pastry bag, grab a ziplock baggie and put the chocolate in it. Cut the bottom corner of the bag off (just a little tiny corner). This will work great too!
- These decorating tweezers are a lifesaver. They will make putting the eyes on so much easier. They are great to have on hand for other decorating projects as well.
- Chill the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups before you begin. It will make them much easier to work with because they won’t get all melty!
More Halloween Desserts
Witches hat cookies | Monster Eyeball Pretzels | Candy Corn Punch | Meringue Ghosts | Monster Eyeball Pretzels | Zombie Eyeballs Pretzels | Halloween Chex Mix | Monster Sprinkle Cookies | Strawberry Ghosts | Halloween Punch
Halloween Spider Cookies
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Ingredients
- 16 Sugar Cookies Make your own, use refrigerated cookie dough or use my 3 ingredient cake mix cookies (see link above)
- 16 Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Minis
- 36 Candy Eyes
- 1 bag Chocolate Candy Melts
Instructions
- Bake cookies as directed.
- As soon as you pull them from the oven, use the bottom of a teaspoon measurer and gently press a divot into the cookie.
- Let the cookies cool completely.
- Melt the candy melts and place either in a pastry bag or use a zip lock baggie and cut of the corner.
- Take a Reese’s and place some melted chocolate along the bottom and press the Reese’s onto the divot in the cookie.
- Let the Reese's set and dry.
- Take your candy eyes and place a dab of melted chocolate on the back and place on the side of the Reese’s .
- Use the melted chocolate to pipe "spider legs" on the cookie.
- Let all of the chocolate dry, serve and enjoy!
- Serve and enjoy
Jenn’s Notes
- I used the back of a spoon to make a little divot in the cookie. This gives a nice place to rest the peanut butter cup. You can also use the end of a wooden spoon. Totally optional step.
- If you don’t have a pastry bag, grab a ziplock baggie and put the chocolate in it. Cut the bottom corner of the bag off (just a little tiny corner). This will work great too!
- These decorating tweezers are a lifesaver. They will make putting the eyes on so much easier. They are great to have on hand for other decorating projects as well.
- Chill the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups before you begin. It will make them much easier to work with because they won’t get all melty!
Nutrition Info
I’ve just finished the third bake for these cookies this week. That’s nine dozen! Adults as well as kids are loving them.
I used a covered cup cake carrier… laid down a piece of foil to cover holes.
I just love your ideals I use them with my grandbabies
Can you use any kind of chocolate for the spider legs or does it have to be candy melts? Thanks!
Could you email me the spider cookie recipe? Thank you.
Why 36 eyes if it makes 16 cookies? Just wondering..
I’d like to make these for my sons class but need them to be peanut free. Any suggestions for something to replace the Reese’s peanut butter cup? Maybe a Rolo??? Any other ideas? Thank you!
Hi Deanna! I am thinking a rolo!
They have caramel cups too!!!
Love these. How would you transport them to child’s school. Probably don’t want to put on top of each other.
So I made these. They came out great. Only thing is when peeling Reese’s cup part of chocolate comes off leaving peanut butter exposed. Any way to get around this?
Not really – you can try to throw them in the refrigerator or freezer for a few before you unwrap them.
JUST saw this! Sorry. I use one of those cake trays with the covers!
Hi! I made these spider cookies for my grandson, he loved them! Only the next time I will use Barney Butter Bare Smooth Almond Butter. ( It’s made in a peanut – free facility) It taste delicious on toasted sourdough bread 😋 These 🕷 cookies came out so cute! I will definitely make them again. 👻
My son don’t like helping me with much, but he will have no problem helping me create these. Thanks for sharing