Sinfully good spiderweb sugar cookies for a delicious (and adorable) Halloween treat. Easier to make than they look, I promise!
…Not that I’m big on spiders or anything, but aren’t these the cutest? These tasty Halloween inspired treats are really pretty simple – just a basic sugar cookie tinted orange, topped with black and white royal icing, and decorated with a creepy, crawly spiderweb design!
Using McCormick’s pure vanilla extract, these cookies had all the flavorful goodness of a good, soft sugar cookie, with a spooky little design thanks to the McCormick black food coloring and neon colorings, too!
My best recipes for sugar cookies and royal icing are below, which you can use to make any number of festive holiday cookies.
For the details on how to create this fun design for yourself (all you need are squeeze bottles and toothpicks!), click here for the easy Bake at 350 tutorial.
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Spooky Spiderweb Cookies
Ingredients
Basic Sugar Cookies
- 3/4 cup butter, softened
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 teaspoon McCormick Pure Vanilla Extract
- 2-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
Royal Icing
- 4 cups powdered confectioner’s sugar, sifted
- 3 Tablespoons meringue powder
- 6 Tablespoons water
Instructions
- Basic Sugar Cookies
- In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugar until smooth. Beat in eggs and vanilla. Stir in flour, baking powder and salt. Cover dough with plastic wrap and chill in refrigerator for at least one hour, or overnight.
- When ready to bake, preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Roll out cookie dough directly on ungreased, lined baking sheet to 1/4-inch thickness. If dough becomes sticky while rolling, lightly dust with powdered sugar. Cut into shapes with desired cookie cutter and peel away excess dough.
- Bake 6 to 8 minutes in preheated oven. Cool completely.
- Royal Icing
- In a large bowl, mix all ingredients on low speed for 7-10 minutes, or until icing forms peaks.
- Cover the bowl with a dampened towel to prevent crusting and drying.
- Tint with food colorings or thin the icing with small amounts of warm water to reach the desired consistency.
Guide to Decorating:
- http://bakeat350.blogspot.com/2009/10/spiderwebs-step-by-step.html
These cookies are so cute, Georgia! I love caramel apples around Halloween.
These are just stunning. They have been so perfectly decorated. They are so gorgeous. Love your attention to detail. We’re not big on celebrating Halloween here in Australia but I recently made some toffee apples and all my USA bloggers told me they would be perfect for Halloween xx
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I love fall because it begins my baking season. I particularly love anything with pumpkin or caramel – I have a recipe for a caramel apple trifle that is to die for!!! ckmcniven@yahoo.com
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I crave caramel for some reason during the Halloween season.
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I can’t get enough caramel popcorn! There’s usually some hot apple cider nearby to wash it down with, as well :-)
My favorite Halloween treat is caramel apples.
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candy corn and any pumpkin baked treat.
Anything with Pumpkin, Caramel and I have to have my Skittles! Thank you for a fantastic giveaway, and for your great blog, I love this.
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I love, love, love caramel apples during Halloween. The gooey caramel, the crisp apple…it’s the perfect combination. So sinful and delish all in 1. Did I win?!?!?!
I love candy corn and salty peanuts mixed together!
My favorite Halloween treat are pumpkin-shaped sugar cookies…decorated like jack-o-laterns!
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Oh my lands, your cookies look amazing! Love those itty bitty spiders. :)
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Man, I despise spiders but I love these cookies!!! And, all I need on Halloween is a big bag of chocolate candies :)
Caramel apples!
These Halloween cookies are extremely cute-how fun to make and serve these!
I have to admit that I LOVE candy corn! By far my favorite Halloween treat. :)
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Oh my gosh those are so stinkin’ cute!
Those cookies look amazing! One thing I love to make for Halloween is popcorn with homemade salted caramel,mixed with pretzels, dried cranberries, and whatever candy I feel like putting in. Making some this morning for my grandkids!
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I love making Pumpkin bread with white chocolate chips!!! SOOOO GOOD
My favorite Halloween treat is pumpkin bread.
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I love to make ‘spiders’. Chow mein noodles mixed in melted butterscotch chips and semi-sweet chocolate chips.
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These cookies are too cute!! I love the spiders!
My favorite Halloween treat – how do I pick?! I will go with peanut butter cups, so good!
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My favourite Halloween candy treat is Candy Corn!
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Caramel Apples!
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My favorite Halloween treat would have to be Candy Corn.
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Caramel apples!
I love resees!!
I’ve never been a candy corn fan, but I love all things pumpkin! Pumpkin roll is my favorite. :)
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These cookies are just adorable! I’m sure the kids would love this! And what a wonderful giveaway. My favorite halloween treat has to be the candy corn!
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My favorite Halloween treat is shocktarts. I may have to buy some now!
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My favorie Halloween treat is pumpkin whoopie pies!
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Definitely caramel apples. It is the only time of the year I really crave them. Thanks!
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I was always thrilled to find Milk Duds in my pumpkin!
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My favorite Halloween treat is Pumpkin Bars.
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As a kid – my mom would always give out Wagon Wheels for treats – they still remind me of Halloween and I think that they are my favourite.
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candy corn and rice crispy ghosts!
Georgia these are absolutely beautiful and so festive!!! I love Halloween so much because my Mom always really got into the spirit of all the holidays and all of her traditions and those memories have stuck. She always made popcorn balls to hand out to the trick-or-treaters who knew our family and they were SO good!
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favorite halloween treat? candy. lots of it.
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Caramel apples! Thank you for the recipe!
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My favorite Halloween treat is caramel corn. Thanks! The cupcakes are adorable.
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Oh, these are so cute! I think my favorite Halloween treat are pumpkin cupcakes!
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my very favorite treat is popcorn balls, tinted orange for Halloween!
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My favorite Halloween treat is a classic: candy corn!
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My favorite Halloween treat would have to be Red Twizzlers. Although I’m a chocolate freak, I don’t think I could choose just one candy bar as a favorite, so the Twizzlers would win!
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These cookies are adorable! SO festive.
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I’ve seen a lot of spider web cookies in the past but these are by far the prettiest!
I love the spiders on these cookies! They add a nice touch. My favorite Halloween treat would definitely have to be the original Mary Jane candy. They are pure peanut butter deliciousness!
My favorite Halloween treat is Caramel Apples!
My favorite halloween treat is candy corn
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My favorite Halloween treat are those little mellocreme pumpkins. YUM! Good thing they only come out once a year!
my favorite halloween treat is a tie between candy apples & caramel rice krispie treats!!
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Favorite halloween treat – caramel popcorn balls!
And fun sized Snickers. :) I can pick two, can’t I?
My favorite is peanuts and candy corn mix.
Oh wow- I guess anything chocolate. I used to like candy apples but I am afraid to eat them now- too much dental work!
Cute! carmel apples with drizzled chocolate are my hands-down fave (and we had them as wedding favors, so they hold a double special place in my heart :-)… but i also like a good pumpkin/cool whip/cream cheese dip with sliced apples! yum yum!
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ah, halloween. my favorite treat is probably candy apples which have been made using apples that i have retrieved via bobbing. have you bobbed for apples? good times. :)
Caramel Popcorn balls are most definitely my favorite halloween treat!
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My favorite halloween treat? It would definitely have to be pumpkin pie. I hope that counts, anyway. Thanks for offering the giveaway!
Those candy corn pumpkins! They’re like candy corn but so much bigger and therefore yummier : )
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These are so adorable, love the spider design.
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My favorite Halloween treat is definitely caramel apples covered in nuts.
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My favourite Halloween treat would be candy popcorn – home made of course. A bit of caramel, chocolate and maybe even some Reese’s Pieces for good measure!
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My favorite Halloween treat is Halloween Trail Mix–dry roasted peanuts+candy corn+m&ms. Of course, that’s not a cooked or baked treat, so if I have to pick one of those, I like mini caramel apple pies.
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Yay for holiday goodies! My favorite treat is more of a fall-like treat. I LOVE me some pumpkin pancakes with buttermilk syrup!
My favorite treat is leftover halloween candy bark!
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These are great Georgia! You are so talented!
These are SO cute! Amazing spiderwebs. I wish people over here were more into Halloween! I’d love to make these and have people actually appreciate them. :)