Sweet Spider Webs Recipe

Excellent Halloween cookie recipe.

• Meal Type: Appetizer
• Ethnicity: Other
• Holiday Category: Halloween
• Preparation Time: 30-45 minutes

Ingredients

• 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened
• 1 cup confectioners' sugar
• 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 egg
• 1 tablespoon grated lemon zest
• candy-coated chocolate pieces (like M&M's)
• 1/4 cup chocolate chips, melted
• orange nonpareils

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 375 F. Line several baking sheets with foil; set aside. Using a mixer on medium, beat butter and sugar until creamy, about 2 minutes. Beat in flour, egg and zest until dough forms.
2. Fill pastry bag fitted with a large round writing tip with dough. Pipe cross patterns of spider webs, about 4 inches in diameter, onto prepared baking sheets. Pipe web circles over the cross patterns to create the "web."
3. Bake cookies until set but not yet browned, about 8 minutes. Transfer baking sheets to wire racks to cool 1 minute. Transfer cookies to the racks to cool completely.
4. Fill a small resealable plastic bag with the melted chocolate; snip off 1 corner. Attach a candy-coated chocolate piece on top of the web cookie for the "spider" using the melted chocolate pipe on "spider legs." Attach orange nonpareils for the "eyes" of the spider using melted chocolate. Makes about 1 1/2 dozen.