Description
I made these for a preschool party and the kids loved them. They do not contain peanut butter, unlike some other recipes. They are a great mix of sweet and salty. Prep time includes post-baking assembly time. You can use the pretzel stick "legs" full size or break them off in graduating lengths.
Ingredients
- Butter
- Brown Sugar
- Sugar
- Egg
- Vanilla Extract
- Unsweetened Cocoa Powder
- Baking Powder
- Salt
- All-purpose Flour
- Pretzel Sticks
- Milk Chocolate Chips
- Vegetable Oil
- Chocolate Sprinkles
- Red Cinnamon Candies
Instructions
- In a large mixing bowl, beat together butter and sugars until light and fluffy
- Add the egg and vanilla and beat well
- Add the cocoa, baking powder, and salt, then add the flour and beat to form a smooth dough
- Roll out tablespoon-sized balls of dough
- Thirty balls are the perfect size, and i then make the spiders in batches of six
- Press the ends of eight pretzel sticks firmly into the dough to make legs, and place each spider on a cookie sheet
- Bake at 350 degrees until the cookies are firm, about 10 minutes
- Place on a wire rack and cool completely
- Melt the chocolate chips and 2 tablespoons oil in the microwave or a double boiler
- Add additional oil if needed to make the chocolate thin enough
- Put a cookie sheet under the wire rack and pour the melted chocolate over each cookie
- You can scrape off the chocolate on the cookie sheet and return it to the pan periodically
- While chocolate is still wet, coat each cookie with chocolate sprinkles
- Press in two red candy eyes on the front of each head
- Allow chocolate to harden before storing