Chocolate Spider Web Cookies
Ingredients
Cookie batter ingredients:
- 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 1 cup cocoa
- 1 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1 1/4 cups butter (room temperature) – if you use unsalted butter, add 1/4 tsp of salt to the dry ingredients when you mix
- 2 1/4 cups sugar
- 3 eggs
- 2 1/2 tsp vanilla
Chocolate Frosting Ingredients:
- 3 cups powdered sugar (aka confectioners sugar)
- 1 cup cocoa
- 1/2 cup butter, room temperature
- 1/4 cup + 1 tbsp milk
- 1 tap vanilla
Vanilla Frosting Ingredients:
- 3 cups powdered sugar (aka confectioners sugar)
- 1/2 cup butter, room temperature
- 1 tbsp + 1 tsp milk
- 2 tsps vanilla
Instructions
Cookie batter Instructions:
- Pre-heat the oven to 350°F.
- Using an electric mixer, cream together the butter and sugar. Add the vanilla and combine.
- In a separate bowl combine the flour, baking soda and cocoa. If you used unsalted butter add 1/4 tsp salt to this. Use a whisk to combine and set aside.
- Into the creamed butter/sugar mixture, beat in the eggs.
- Pour the wet ingredients into the dry and combine using a mixing spoon.
- Form the dough into balls roughly the size of golf balls.
- Place 6 balls evenly spaced onto a parchment paper lined cookie sheet and bake for about 12 minutes. Once the first 6 are done, then the next can go into the oven.
- It’s important to avoid crowding the cookie sheet so that the cookies don’t all become 1 giant cookie. It’s a good idea to have 2 cookie sheets on hand so you can get one ready while the other ones bake.
- Allow the cookies to cool for a couple minutes on the cookie sheet before moving them to a cooling rack.
- Once cookies have cooled completely they can then be decorated.
- In a small bowl heat up the chocolate frosting for about 30 seconds in the microwave and give it a stir. If you need to heat it up a bit more that’s ok but keep your eye on it since you don’t want it to burn.
- Onto each cookie, spread about 1 1/2 tbsps of the chocolate frosting.
- Allow the frosting to cool on each cookie.
- Into a medium sized zip top bag, spoon in the vanilla frosting. Place the bag in a microwave safe dish or bowl and heat the frosting for 30 seconds to warm it up.
- Form the bag into a cone shape and cut a VERY small hole at the tip to allow the frosting to come out.
- To make the spider web shape start making an X on top of the cookie and then another X. Then make a spiral on top of the X’s moving from the edge of the cookie to the middle. See photos for reference.
Chocolate Frosting Instructions:
Combine all ingredients for chocolate frosting in a large mixing bowl using an electric mixer. Start on low speed and gradually move to a faster speed once the ingredients begin to combine
Vanilla Frosting Instructions:
Combine all ingredients for vanilla frosting in a large mixing bowl using an electric mixer. Start on low speed and gradually move to a faster speed once the ingredients begin to combine.
Recipe by The Happy Home Life at https://www.thehappyhomelife.com/try-these-halloween-cookies-chocolate-spider-web-cookies/