So there is this image floating around the internet. It is a chocolate chip cookie with spiders superimposed on it.
Spider Chocolate Chip Cookies
I kid you not I stared at that thing for five minutes straight. I was perplexed. I was horrified. I was intrigued. I was fascinated. I was officially obsessed.
So this is my little attempt to re-create that, only with no photography tricks. Just some melted chocolate and a little time.
I started out by baking some chocolate chip cookies. I highly recommend making these New York Times Chocolate Chip Cookies. (recipe below)They are amazing and delicious and something you must try at least once in your life.
Make Sure Chocolate Chips are Tip-Down
You will want to add the chocolate chips strategically when making the cookies. I placed the chocolate chips tip-down into the cookie so that flat bottom of each chip was sticking out of the cookie. (This will be the base of the spider body.)
Next, I added about a 1/4 cup of chocolate chips into a plastic disposable pastry bag and microwaved it for 1 minute. I then removed the bag and massaged the chocolate to see if it was all melted. It wasn’t so I placed it back in for 15 more seconds and at this stage, it was mostly melted and hot so I removed it from the microwave.
Pipe Legs with Melted Chocolate
Then I snipped off the TINIEST bit from the pastry bag and piped “legs” onto the cookie right around the chocolate chip. I pipe eight legs then put the pastry bag down and picked up a toothpick.
Use a Toothpick for Extra Detail
I wanted to legs to look as realistic as possible, so I painstakingly used the toothpick to go in and really add detail to the legs. I made the ends as pointy as possible and tried to make all the legs uniform in size and length.
This took FOREVER. I seriously got a kink in my neck. I think each cookie was roughly about five minutes.
But it was worth it. These really are creepy and a bit gross. If it’s just too much for you then you are exactly the friend I want to invite over when I make them.
Let me know if you try these! Would love to see! Well, no, I don’t really want to see it because that would freak me out. I guess I am a glutton for punishment!
Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 ⅔ cups (208 grams) cake flour
- 1 ⅔ cups (208 grams) bread flour
- 1 ¼ teaspoons baking soda
- 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
- 1 ¼ cups (284g) unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1 ½ teaspoons coarse salt
- 1 cup (200g) granulated sugar
- 1 ¼ cups (10 ounces or 225g) packed light brown sugar
- 2 large eggs, room temperature
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 16 ounces (about 3 cups) chocolate chips or chunks (I use a combination of both and reserve a few to place on top of the cookie before baking)
Instructions
- Sift flours, baking soda, baking powder and salt into a bowl and set aside.
- Using a mixer with a paddle attachment, cream butter and sugars until light and fluffy, 3 to 5 minutes.
- Reduce speed and add eggs one at a time, then add vanilla.
- Slowly add dry ingredients, mixing until just combined.
- Fold in chocolate chips by hand. Refrigerate dough for24-36 hours.
- DO NOT SKIP REFRIGERATION.
- When ready to bake, preheat oven to 350°F. Remove dough from refrigerator and allow to come to room temperature.
- Drop spoonfuls (2-3 tablespoons) of dough onto baking sheet. Bake for 10-12 minutes.
- Cool on wire rack.
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I made these cookies using the new york chocolate chip recipe and then used melted chocolate chips for the legs (piped in a bag of parchment paper) & they are perfect!
The original photo is creepy but….hers isn’t chocolate chips…hers is photoshopped. The photo won 4th place in a competition on worth1000.com. The topic of the photos entered was snackimals. If you go to the link you posted and click on ‘snackimals’ at the top of the page you can see more creepy food animals lol. Pretty cool pics. Your spiders are yummy looking and might I add the coolest looking ones I have seen thus far that are real chocolate chip spiders lol.
Hi Kellie! In my first paragraph I say, “spiders superimposed on” the cookie. I also link right to the worth1000 site. 🙂
Hi Amanda, I’m Amy from Singapore. I just made these!had so much fun, thanks for sharing your wonderful recipe?
Wonderful! Glad you enjoyed it Amy!
These are absolutely GROSS!!!! Love them and cannot wait to make some. What fun!!!
WOW Love this idea so much I will be making them in my NON Cooking NON Reading Cooking class with 3 and 4 year olds! I will definitely share the end product pictures
I wonder if you could pull legs if you used a Hershey kiss?
I thought that the original photo of the cookies was pieces of rosemary as the legs! 🙂 I think I might try that too ! So funny!
I love this recipe! I actually have just discovered your website and LOVE everything i’ve seen. I’m excited to get into the recipes and sharpen my skills. I especially like the educational component to your page. I am a novice baker and have much to learn.
Cute but unnecessarily harder than it needs to be. Ignore the 2 minute upside down chip step and simply make the cookies then squeeze whatever size spider body you want onto the cookie. This chocolate is easier to pull legs off too
I have made that version and didn’t like the final result. I prefer to spend the time making them the way I want them to look. 🙂
Maybe you can use the shell of a sunflower seed…doctor it up a little….it would take a little eddy, but that would probably work well