Chocolate-Cookie Spiders

11 ingredients
4 steps

Ingredients

  • 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
  • 6 tablespoons unsweetened Dutch process cocoa powder, sifted
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 10 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 cup chocolate sprinkles
  • 36 mini M&M's or red hots
  • 72 mini pretzel sticks, about 4 inches long, each snapped in half

Directions

  1. 1
    Preheat oven to 350°F. Line two baking sheets with parchment. Whisk together flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt.
  2. 2
    Cream butter and sugar with an electric mixer until fluffy, 2 to 3 minutes. Beat in egg and vanilla until smooth. Beat in flour mixture.
  3. 3
    Roll a teaspoonful of dough between your palms, then roll ball in sprinkles. Repeat with remaining dough and sprinkles. Place 9 balls on each baking sheet, pressing lightly to flatten just a bit. Place two mini M&M's or red hots on one end of each ball. Insert 4 pretzel stick halves into each side of each ball.
  4. 4
    Bake one sheet of cookies until dry on top, 12 minutes. Let cool on sheet on wire rack. Repeat with remaining sheet.

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