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As usual, I waited until the last minute to start thinking about what to make for the girls’ friends at dance for their Halloween party tomorrow night. Sophie’s first request was bat shaped cookies and I thought I had her convinced to just buy the Little Debbie brownies shaped like bats, but when Gran send us {this} super cute suggestion. It looked simple enough, but I decided to try using Double-Stuf Oreos since we can’t bring peanut butter and I figured it would be easier than spreading each individual one. It turns out, this was one of the easiest food crafts we’ve done in a long time. If you waited until the last minute like me and still need treats for your class parties, follow along and see how we turned Oreos and pretzels into an adorable spider cookie!
What you’ll need: Double-Stuf Oreos, stick pretzels, black icing, candy eyes, cello bags, coordinating ribbon and the printable Halloween tags.
It doesn’t hurt to have an excellent helper to cut out the circle tags and punch holes. I am not the best cutter and who likes to punch holes?!
We started by sticking pretzels in between the layers of the Oreo, four on each side, to make the spider legs. The Double-Stuf ones are just thick enough to allow for the pretzels, but we learned later that we’d need one extra step to keep them from falling apart!
Next up, I used store-bought black icing to stick on the candy eyes. I thought about using M&Ms or chocolate chips, but I had these in the pantry for creative lunches and we thought they looked the very best.
When we started attempting to package them, the “lid” of the cookie kept sliding off, so we ended up squeezing a little extra icing in between the layers to hold them together a little better. In hindsight, I wish I had bought white icing for this step.
We used standard cello bags and tied these printables on with orange ribbon to finish them off! They say: “Enjoy these Itsy, Bitsy Cookies & Have a Happy Halloween!”
I made an easy printable to share with you and left a space for you to write your little one’s name in! Click here to to download.
Happy Halloween Week!
