Chocolate Sugar Cookies all dressed up for Halloween with a spiderweb made of icing. Great dessert for a spooky party!
I am not a crafty mom. So when the kids come home with art-related school projects, I immediately hand it off to my husband and say, “have fun!”
I get equally distressed about homemade Halloween costumes. Which is why they have never happened. Ever. >> I’m the reason costume stores exist.
But I am so tired of spending money on outfits the kids will wear once. So this year, I made a convincing plea for why my son should use his T-ball uniform and go as a baseball player, and my daughter should take advantage of that adorable (and expensive!) dance recital costume again.
And I totally had them on board!
Until this past weekend.
My daughter asked, “Mom, did you get me a Pirate Fairy costume yet?” Uuuum. No. “Did you get a job yet?” << inner voice.
When I reminded her about repurposing the dance costume, I got tears. Oy. My son immediately comforted me and said, “Mom, I’m still ok with being a baseball player” << this earned him a point on his behavior chart. Which made Haley cry harder. Good times.
Twenty minutes later, after she had lunch and the waterworks had stopped, she said all excitedly, “wait, so I get to wear make-up like I did for my recital???” Me: “sure. I guess. (berg)”
So my daughter is going as a dancer, my son is going as a baseball player, and I’m going with a cocktail.
Chocolate Sugar Cookies
These chocolate sugar cookies are similar to your favorite sugar cookie, but with a chocolate spin, and all dressed up for Halloween with a fun spiderweb pattern made of icing.
You’ll need the typical cookie ingredients: all-purpose flour, baking powder, salt, sugar, unsalted butter, egg, and vanilla. Plus unsweetened cocoa for the chocolate flavor. You’ll also need powdered sugar and whole milk for the icing.
Chocolate Sugar Cookie Recipe
Here is a brief summary of steps to make these cookies. (Scroll below for the complete printable recipe.)
- Whisk together the flour, cocoa, baking powder, and salt.
- Beat together the butter and sugar until combined. Add in the egg and vanilla.
- Combine dry mixture and wet mixture; beat until combined.
- Cover and chill for 1 hour.
- Form tablespoon sized balls of dough and place on baking sheets 2 inches apart; flatten just slightly with the back of a spatula.
- Bake for 11-12 minutes, rotating sheets halfway through. Allow cookies to rest on baking sheet for a couple minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
- When cookies have completely cooled, prepare frosting. Combine powdered sugar and milk; stir well with a whisk until smooth. Spoon into a small zip-top plastic bag; seal. Snip a tiny hole in 1 corner of bag.
- Working with 1 cookie at a time, pipe 3 concentric circles of the icing onto each cookie. Starting at center circle, pull a wooden toothpick through other circles at regular intervals to create a “web.”
- Allow frosting to set and enjoy!
How To Store Chocolate Sugar Cookies
These sugar cookies can be stored in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 1 week.
You can also freeze them (prior to applying the spiderweb icing) in an airtight container up to 2 months. Thaw, then make your icing and decorate.
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Halloween Spiderweb Chocolate Sugar Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1/3 cup unsalted butter , softened
- 2/3 cup granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 large egg
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 3 tablespoons whole milk
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line 2 cookie sheets with parchment paper.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, cocoa, baking powder, and salt.
- In a large bowl, beat together the butter and sugar with an electric mixer, until combined. Add in the egg and vanilla. Add flour mixture; beat until combined. Cover and chill for 1 hour.
- Form tablespoon sized balls of dough and place on baking sheets 2 inches apart; flatten just slightly with the back of a spatula.
- Bake for 11-12 minutes, rotating sheets halfway through. Allow cookies to rest on baking sheet for 2 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
- When cookies have completely cooled, prepare frosting. Combine powdered sugar and milk in a medium bowl; stir well with a whisk until smooth. (Add more powdered sugar if mixture is too thin or more milk if mixture is too thick.) Spoon into a small zip-top plastic bag; seal. Snip a tiny hole in 1 corner of bag.
- Working with 1 cookie at a time, pipe 3 concentric circles of the icing onto each cookie. Starting at center circle, pull a wooden toothpick through other circles at regular intervals to create a “web.”
- Allow frosting to set and enjoy!
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Love the story!!!
Oh, and the cookies sound good, too. {smile}
Oooohhh those kids! Good luck with the makeup…you and me are totally on the same page with that one! Maybe a store-bought costume WOULD have been the easier route, ha! I can’t believe it’s Halloween time already, anyway! Also, these cookies rock! Perfect for a Halloween party or a pumpkin carving get together!
I agree with Carla, but I think I like the story better! Although the design on the cookies is great. You don’t remember that fabulous black and white clown costume I made Jennifer one year. I can’t remember making any others because that one used up all my creative energies.
My future MIL is apparently the Halloween costume master, so my future kids costumes will be limited to whatever she is willing to make. Because I’m just not that into.
cute spiderweb cookies…now those I can do. Especially if there are cocktails involved.
I can’t decide which I like better: the story you shared or these delicious looking cookies. It’s a tie! :)
Ha, Carla! I’m glad you enjoyed both!!
LOL. That’s awesome. I almost had her going as Minnie Mouse in that polka dotted costume. Then she decided to be a kitty cat. Luckily we had the outfit. Mine are ruined for Goodwill finds and crafted costumes. Except this year, I didn’t want to craft. They wanted to be box trolls. I begged them to be something store-bought so I didn’t have to create them. :) Love your post. And might have to make these cookies too!!
You mentioned GoodWill before. I need to start looking there!
I ALWAYS begged my mom to sew my Halloween costumes. Always. And she did… And I always picked out the most elaborate princess-like dress patterns at the fabric store. She spent, uhh, 20-30 hours sewing every October. I owe her big time! ;)
My mom used to sew our clothes – like every day clothes. And they were better than outfits you’d find in stores! Yet, she never made our Halloween costumes. We were left to our own devices there.
The next time I see you, I have 3-4 costumes to hand off to you. They will be perfect for them next halloween and beyond. :) This year, Jordan will be a cat and Collin Iron Man.
Awesome! I keep waiting for Haley to want to be a cat…hasn’t happened yet.
These are great, so pretty!
Looks like you got Halloween under wraps :-) These cookies look really good.
Thanks, Velva!
No, um, I’M the reason costume stores exist. Except 99% of the time I make her assemble a costume from regular clothing, lol. LOVE these, so cute!
No way, Dorothy! You have far too much style to not be crafty.
I’m not crafty at all but I think I can manage this one! Looks great, sounds tasty :-)
If I can, you can. I swear! Thanks, Connie!
SO many reasons I didn’t encourage getting over the “I am scared to death of masks and Halloween”. No costumes, because people who majored in clothing in college (yes, I tailored a full-length winter coat my senior year) don’t get a free pass at the costume store. Yeah. We were done by the end of first grade. I had to put together 2 costumes. #iwin (even if it does mean admitting that I have a strange child). ;) I’ll stay at home and eat these cookies instead.
I remember you telling me that about Stephie. Haley’s best friend is also paralyzed by Halloween and scary stuff associated with it. It doesn’t phase mine. Which is so strange, considering *I* don’t do scary. Or spiders. One in the same, as far as I’m concerned.
Did you read about the house in the St. Louis area that the people that lived there had to abandon because of the literally thousands of brown recluse spiders that they couldn’t get rid of? Basically, they are going to have to destroy the house. I got the creepies just reading it. On the other hand, I saw a funny that thanked spider webs for decorating their house for Halloween.
I’ve seen that graphic – funny. House with all the recluse spiders? Not so much. *shudders*
I just found your web site and wanted to make the halloween cookies with the pretzel ring We are in Portland and not one store has them….They look adorable, but am thinking that rold gold doesn’t make them anymore…..Too bad. They were adorable with the candy kiss and the M & M!
I used to buy them at Walmart, but maybe you’re right that the pretzel companies don’t make them anymore. I haven’t seen them in a while, but I also haven’t been looking. Bummer! Those treats are super easy and fun.
well, these cookies make you look pretty darn crafty; I can’t even make a web
Ha, well… I guess they do :D And yes you could! They were crazy easy – run a toothpick through 3 different sized circles. Boom. Done!
Hahaha “did you get a job yet?” My sister just bought her 4-month-old twins Halloween costumes and they are SO cute, but I couldn’t believe how $$ they were. My sister and I always had to make our own costumes from what we had when we were growing up… I was so jealous of my friend who got to order from a catalog!
Oh, the price tag on baby costumes are the worst! The manufacturers know that moms are suckers for making their kids adorable for the holidays!