Halloween Spider Cookie Recipe | Halloween Spider Cookie Recipe Recipes | Halloween Spider Cookie Recipe Recipe

1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened

1-1/4 cups granulated sugar

1 egg

3 (1 ounce) squares semisweet chocolate,

melted and slightly cooled

2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

1/4 cup cocoa

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

1/4 teaspoon salt

Black licorice whips, black jellybeans, black

decorating gel, assorted Halloween candies

Cream butter and sugar in mixing bowl until

fluffy. Beat in egg and then melted chocolate.

Beat in flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt

until combined. Divide dough in half and shape

each half into a roll about 8 inches long. Wrap

in wax paper or plastic wrap. Refrigerate at

least 2 hours or overnight.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

Cut rolls into 1/4-inch slices and place 1 inch

apart on ungreased cookie sheet. Bake until cookies

are set when lightly touched, 10 to 12 minutes.

Cool completely.

Cream Cheese Frosting

6 ounces cream cheese, softened

2 cups confectioners' sugar

Combine cream cheese and confectioners' sugar.

Spread about 1 teaspoon of frosting on half of

the cookies. Top with remaining cookies and

spread additional frosting on top.

Decorate the cookies with "spiders," using

jellybeans for bodies and licorice for legs.

To make cobweb cookies, squeeze a small amount of

black gel on the middle of the cookie. Use

the end of a toothpick to draw gel from the

middle of the cookies to edges. Then put gel

across to connect the gel lines in a cobweb

pattern. Cookies can also be decorated with a

variety of ready-made Halloween candy decorations.

Once frosted, keep cookies refrigerated.

Yields 32 servings.