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Spider Web Sugar Cookies

These spider web sugar cookies are super easy to make even if you don't have any cookie decorating experience. They're lots of fun for a Halloween party or just as a special after school treat.

Course Dessert, Snack
Cuisine American/Canadian
Keyword Halloween
Prep Time 45 minutes
Cook Time 7 minutes
Setting Time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour 52 minutes
Servings 20
Calories 172 kcal

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 tartar

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

Directions for Cookies:

  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.

Recipe 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.

Nutrition Facts
Spider Web Sugar Cookies
Amount Per Serving
Calories 172 Calories from Fat 72
% Daily Value*
Fat 8g12%
Saturated Fat 5g31%
Trans Fat 0.3g
Polyunsaturated Fat 0.3g
Monounsaturated Fat 2g
Cholesterol 27mg9%
Sodium 41mg2%
Potassium 84mg2%
Carbohydrates 25g8%
Fiber 1g4%
Sugar 17g19%
Protein 2g4%
Vitamin A 232IU5%
Vitamin C 0.01mg0%
Calcium 13mg1%
Iron 1mg6%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.