Spider Chocolate Chip Cookies

Using a traditional chocolate chip cookie recipe, we make them into Spider Chocolate Chip Cookies for Halloween using melted chocolate!  The chocolate chip cookies are chewy and delicious….and the spiders are sure to gross out your guests!

Spider Chocolate Chip Cookies

Idea inspired by iambaker.net

Ingredients:

• 2 ¼ cups (270 grams) all purpose flour

• ½ teaspoon (2.5 grams) baking soda

• 1 cup (240 grams) butter

• ½  cup (50 grams) granulated sugar

• 1 cup (180 grams) brown sugar

• 1 teaspoon (5 grams) salt

• 2 teaspoons (10 milliliters) vanilla extract

• 2 large (104 milliliters/3.5 ounces) eggs

• 2 cups (454 grams/16 ounces) chocolate chips

Procedure:

1. Preheat oven to 350˚F/180˚C.  Line a baking tray with parchment paper.

2. In a small bowl, combine flour, salt, and baking soda in a bowl and mix.  Set aside for later.  

3. In a stand mixer, fitted with the paddle attachment, cream butter and sugars.  With the mixer on low speed, add eggs one at a time, and vanilla.

4. Continuing to mix, add the flour mixture and mix until combined.  Finally, add the chocolate chips.  

5. Scoop out cookie dough by the tablespoon onto the baking tray and bake for 10-12 minutes or until golden brown.

6. Allow to cool completely on a cooling rack.

7. Store in an airtight container for 2-3 days or freeze in a sealed container for up to two months.  

To make Spiders:

When you pull the tray out of the oven, while the cookies are still warm, insert a chocolate chip upside down for the spider’s body.

Melt reserved chocolate chips and put into piping bag with a small part of the tip cut off.  When cookies have cooled, pipe on 8 spider legs onto chocolate chips that are prominent.  If no chocolate chips are prominent, while cookies are still warm, place one/two chips upside down in the cookie.

In the video, I inadvertently forgot the step where you put the chips in for the spider body!  Oops.  When the cookies are still warm, place a chocolate chip upside down and you will have a spider’s body!  

I also found that the finer the cut on the end of the piping bag, the “grosser” the spiders looked.  If you use a wide leg, the spiders tended to look immature (for lack of a better word) . . . the skinnier they were, the creepier.