Easy Spider Decorated Cookies

Delight your little ones with this simple spooky Spider decorated cookie this Halloween – with Reeses, chocolate, and candy eyes – as well as your favorite cookies, this dessert is an easy way to celebrate spooky season!

picture of cookies on a cutting board with peanut butter cups decorated to look like spiders on top

At Ajpal, I add lots of tips in all of my recipes – because I am a home cook without any formal training, and I find I am more confident making dishes when I understand why it works, and what each ingredient means to the flavor of a recipe. My goal is for even the most beginner home cook to feel empowered in the kitchen.

Reeses Cookie Spiders

We love peanut butter and chocolate – it is a delicious, classic combination that everyone loves at Halloween. I don’t know about you, but our first candy to be gone every Halloween is always Reeses!

This cookie is a super fun and delicious way to bring everyone’s favorite Trick or Treat classic into an adorable dessert that is perfect to serve at parties – it is easy to serve, super adorable, you can use pre-made cookies (or use a favorite recipe like our chewy chocolate chip cookies or our soft baked sugar cookies).

How to Make Spider Cookies

To make these cookies, you will need:

Mini Reeses peanut butter cups
Chocolate chips or other melting chocolate
Candy eyes
Cookies
Piping bags

picture of chocolate chips, candy eyes, cookies, and peanut butter cups on a table

picture of a peanut butter cup on a cookie

picture of eyes on a peanut butter cup on a cookie

picture of chocolate spider on top of a sugar cookie

Once you’ve gathered your ingredients and tools, you will follow this process:

Prep. Melt chocolate in a double boiler or microwave in 30 second bursts and add to piping bag. Take reeses cups out of wrappers.
Decorate. Pipe a large dot of chocolate onto cookie to secure peanut butter cup onto cookie. Place peanut butter cup down to “glue” to cookie. Pipe chocolate onto backs of candy eyes, and secure onto peanut butter cups. Then pipe four legs per side of peanut butter up to complete spider.
Enjoy! Let set for at least 30 minutes.

Tips and Tricks For Perfect Easy Spider Cookies

Let chocolate cool slightly. If you find your eyes sliding down the peanut butter cups, let the chocolate cool a little bit so it is thicker.

Use a microwaveable piping bulb. I love microwaving or boiling chocolate in a double boiler in a microwaveable piping bulb. They are easy to clean and super simple to use – just be sure to not microwave the metal tip. Buy one here.