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Easy Spider Web Sugar Cookies

Easy Spider Web Sugar Cookies are delicious sugar cookies with spider web frosting and candy spiders! They're the perfect spooky treat for your Halloween parties!
David Murphy
Prep Time 45 minutes
Cook Time 7 minutes
Additional Time 1 hour
Total Time 7 minutes
Serving Size 20 Cookies

Ingredients

Cookie Ingredients

  • ¾ cup powdered sugar
  • ½ cup unsalted butter room temp or margarine
  • 1 egg
  • ½ tsp. Vanilla extract
  • ¼ tsp. Almond extract
  • 1 ¼ cup flour
  • ½ tsp. Baking soda
  • ½ tsp. Cream of tarter

Frosting Ingredients

  • ¼ cup unsalted butter room temp
  • 2 cups powdered sugar
  • 1 tsp. Vanilla extract
  • 4 TBSP. cocoa powder
  • 4-5 TBSP. milk
  • Reese’s pieces candy for spiders

Instructions

  • 1. Add all dry ingredients to a medium mixing bowl, and mix until well combined.
    2. Add butter or margarine and egg to bowl, and mix with clean hands until well combined.
    3. Pour in vanilla and almond extracts, and continue to mix well.
    4. Form dough into a ball, wrap with plastic wrap and place in refrigerator for one hour.
    5. Remove dough from refrigerator and preheat oven to 350 degrees.
    6. Place dough on floured parchment paper, and roll out to approximately ¼ inch thick.
    7. Cut out cookie shapes using a 2-2 ½ inch round cookie cutter.
    8. Place cookies on a cookie sheet and bake for approximately 7 minutes, or until bottom turns slightly golden brown.
    9. Cool completely on a cooling rack.

    Directions for Frosting:
    1. Add butter and vanilla to the bowl of an electric mixer and mix until creamy.
    2. Pour in powdered sugar and mix well. Mixture will be dry.
    3. Add milk in one tablespoon at a time, mixing well after each addition, until frosting reaches desired consistency. Frosting should be easy to spread, but not too runny.
    4. Separate approximately ½ cup of icing into a separate bowl to be used for spider webs.
    5. Add cocoa powder to remaining frosting in mixing bowl, and beat until fluffy. Add another splash of milk if cocoa powder causes frosting to become dry.
    6. Spread chocolate frosting on each cookie.
    7. Put the white frosting in a piping bag and pipe on spider webs by creating three lines which intersect in the center (pictured). Connect each section together with two curved lines (pictured).
    8. Place a Reese’s candy on each cookie and pipe on little spider legs with any remaining chocolate frosting.
    9. Store cookies in an airtight container.

Notes

-If using butter, do not let dough sit in refrigerator for much longer than an hour, or it will become too hard and won’t be able to be rolled out.If using margarine, dough can stay in longer, even overnight.
-If cookies are pulled out of the oven before the bottoms brown slightly, they will be too soft and too fragile to decorate. Adjust cooking times accordingly to ensure bottoms are slightly golden brown before removing.