No-Bake Spooky Spider Cookies are the perfect addition to your Halloween celebration this year! With their big googly eyes and creepy little legs, these no-bake Halloween cookies with be the hit of your ghoulish celebration. Kids will love gobbling up our Oreo Halloween treats!
No-Bake Spooky Spider Cookies Recipe
Kids will love making our easy spider cookies as a craft project and they’ll be delighted when they get to eat them too! Or just make them as the googly-eyed dessert to celebrate the spookiest of days.
These adorable, I mean spooky, spiders are made from mini Oreo cookies, black licorice and edible sugar eyes.
And we all know that Oreo Halloween treats are the hit of every ghoulish party!
Make Oreo spider cupcakes or an entire web of spiders atop your favorite cake.
These little spider creatures are just as happy on top of a cupcake or a spider-webbed layer cake as they are on a store-bought cookie. So let them crawl around on your dessert of choice!
Spooky Spiders love hanging out on a Halloween cake too!
A quick trip to the grocery store, and the craft store for the sugar eyeballs if your grocery store isn’t quite up to speed for Halloween, or an overnight delivery from Amazon, and you’ll be all set for this adorable Halloween treat!
Let your Spooky Spiders crawl on some cupcakes too!
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- Use your favorite store bought cookie, such as chocolate chip, oatmeal or sugar cookies
- Decorate with Halloween sprinkles
- Flavor the store bought frosting with vanilla, almond or lemon extractThis post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase through one of these links, I make a small commission at no extra cost to you.
I love to go all out and add more spider decorations to my table and this spider bowl with witch’s feet spider bowl with witch’s feet is an adorable way to serve more treats!
And why not sprinkle some plastic spiders on your table too!
And don’t forget to hang a huge 22-inch inflatable monster spider balloon from the ceiling too. Now that’s a creepy crawly party!
Ingredients you will need to make this recipe
- store-bought cookies
- vanilla frosting
- orange, purple and/or black cake sparkles
- mini Oreo cookies
- black shoestring licorice
- candy eyeballs
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No-Bake Spooky Spider Cookies are the perfect addition to your Halloween celebration this year! They can be an edible craft project for the kids or the googly-eyed dessert you’ve made to celebrate the spookiest of days.
- 12 store-bought cookies, about 3-inch diameter
- 1 can (16 ounces) vanilla frosting
- orange cake sparkles or purple and/or black cake sparkles
- 12 mini Oreo cookies
- 72 (1-inch pieces) black shoestring licorice
- 24 candy eyeballs, Wilton
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Spread frosting over top of cookie, about 1 Tablespoon frosting per cookie.
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Sprinkle with cake sparkles.
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Gently press licorice pieces into creme center of mini cookies to form spider legs.
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Use remaining frosting to attach candy eyeballs to cookie.
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Place cookie spider on top of cookie. Boo!
Recipe Video
Makes 12 cookies.
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First Published: October 29, 20186.. Last Updated: September 29, 2020
This recipe is featured on Meal Plan Monday and Weekend Potluck
Such cute ideas, Gwynnie. Can’t wait to try!
Thanks Janice!
So darn cute and creepy. Your little looks like she is loving it. Thanks for sharing at Love Your Creativity. I am featuring your No-Bake Creepy Spider cookies on Sunday.
Somebody looks like they are enjoying that cookie. Congratulations, you are being featured at Over The Moon Linky Party. I hope you stop by. https://www.eclecticredbarn.com/2020/10/over-moon-linky-party_25.html
Hugs,
Bev
Thanks so much Beverly!