Silly Spider and Bat Cookies
Usually, Halloween cookies are some of my favorite to make but this year I was a little short on inspiration. Then I saw these adorable spider cookies by SugarNosh Treats and suddenly an idea I’d been toying with fell into place.
I made every cookie on this platter with the cutters below. The baby rattles can be purchased here and here, the bat was a Target find, and the “MOM” cutter is a Wilton model that sat untouched in a bin for two years.
I chose to piece my cookies together, but these look adorable double-layered also. Simply trim the rattle and piece together as shown below. If you don’t have a rattle, a plain circle works perfectly too!
Here’s how I constructed the bats.
To make these cookies you will need:
- White piping and flood icing
- Black piping and 20-second icing
- Purple, green, and orange piping and flood icing
- Blue flood icing {or pre-made royal icing eyes}
Outline and flood the cookie with white icing. You can skip this step if you’d like, I just felt like a white base on this particular day.
Once the base is dry use a round cookie cutter and fine tip food color marker to make a circle for the head. This is a great way to ensure consistent results every time, even without a Kopykake.
Use black icing to add a hat.
When the hat is dry outline and fill the face, let dry, then pipe legs with a #3 tip.
To finish up, follow the steps below:
- Add three white dots to the hat
- Pipe a hatband
- Add eyes {for a more in depth look at eyes like these, click here}
- Pipe a bow tie {learn how to make leaf tip royal icing bows here}
- Use black icing to add top hat details and a smile.
Here’s the whole crew. Usually I’m not big on spiders and bats but these are definitely an exception.
Like I mentioned before, these also make super sweet double-layered cookies.
As cute as the spiders were, these little guys turned out to be my faves!
Don’t be afraid to get creative for a design that is completely your own. Add boots, stripey legs, or fangs. To make things even easier skip piecing altogether and use only the “MOM”. The possibilities are endless!
For more not-so-spooky Halloween inspiration check out these links:
