These cute little DIY Pretzel & Chocolate Spiders are such a fun and festive Halloween treat! With chocolate bodies and pretzel legs, you can use these spooky spiders as cake and cupcake toppers or enjoy them on their own!
DIY Pretzel & Chocolate Spiders for Halloween
Halloween is one of my absolute favorite holidays and I am always ahead of the game. I already admitted to that last week when I confessed that I have already decorated the house for Fall/Halloween…so these adorable Spiders should come as no surprise!
They may not be anatomically correct (I swear, you don’t even miss the other two legs), but they are SO cute — and big — in person! They are incredibly easy to put together and you only need a couple ingredients.
To make ONE Spider:
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- 12 small Pretzel Sticks – connected into a V with chocolate (and let the chocolate harden)
- 1 Reese’s Peanut Butter Pumpkin
- 2 Candy Eyeballs (at Michael’s or Amazon)
- Melted chocolate in a piping bag or sandwich baggie with the tip cut off
Stick 3 spider legs, into the Reese’s pumpkin. Top with melted chocolate to cover where they enter and to help hold the legs in.
Stick the second set of spider legs into the other side and finish covering with chocolate. If you look closely, you will see that the Reese’s pumpkin cracked a little — don’t worry, that will happen. Once you cover it with chocolate, no one can tell and the chocolate on top will hold it all together!
Place the eyeball candy onto the melted chocolate. Then, pop this guy in the fridge to harden the chocolate and bam! Done!
See! These are super quick to make and so festive! I loved these as individual cupcake toppers, but think they would also be perfect to top of a cake as the topper. You would only need one Spider to make a big impact. Or, you could always just serve the spiders as is — they are tasty all by themselves!
Note: I used this dark chocolate cake recipe for the cupcakes and this amazing Chocolate Buttercream Frosting to ice them!
Here is the “recipe” with all the steps in one place — in case it’s easier for you to follow that way! 🙂
DIY Pretzel & Chocolate Spiders
Ingredients
- 12 small Pretzel Sticks – connected into a V with chocolate, and let the chocolate harden
- 1 Reese’s Peanut Butter Pumpkin, or another chocolatey base of choice
- 2 Candy Eyeballs, at Michael’s or Amazon
- Melted chocolate in a piping bag or sandwich baggie with the tip cut off
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Instructions
- Stick 3 spider legs, into the Reese’s pumpkin. Top with melted chocolate to cover where they enter and to help hold the legs in.
- Stick the second set of spider legs into the other side and finish covering with chocolate.
- Place the eyeball candy onto the melted chocolate. Transfer the whole spider into the fridge for the chocolate to harden, about 10 minutes.
- Place on top of a cake or cupcake for decoration, or eat as is!
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They are good entertainment for the kids.
Thank you for sharing
Oh my gosh, these are cute! Great idea!
A perfect treat for my little goblins! So cute!
These are so adorable! Definitely pinning for a future Halloween party 🙂
Wow these spider cupcakes are so cool. What a really fun idea. Pinned! Sammie