Best Cobweb Cookies Recipes

BAT AND COBWEB COOKIES

Steps:

• Sift flour, baking soda, and baking powder together into a large bowl; set aside.
• Put butter and sugar into the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment; beat on medium-high speed until fluffy. Beat in ginger, cinnamon, cloves and salt. Beat in eggs and molasses. Reduce speed to low; beat in flour mixture.
• Divide dough into 3 equal pieces, and flatten into disks. Wrap each in plastic wrap. Refrigerate 1 hour.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. On a lightly floured work surface, roll out dough 1/8 inch thick. Transfer dough to a parchment-lined baking sheet, refrigerate until firm, about 30 minutes. Use bat and cobweb cookie cutters to create shapes. Transfer to baking sheets, and refrigerate 15 minutes. Repeat with remaining disks.
• Bake cookies until crisp but not darkened, rotating sheets halfway through, 8 to 10 minutes. Transfer sheets to wire racks, let cookies cool completely before decorating with Royal Icing.
• Using desired base color (black for bats, white for cobwebs) and a pastry bag fitted with a very small plain round tip (such as #3), pipe icing on each cookie to form an outline. Fill in with more icing, and smooth with an offset spatula. Embellish before icing dries.
• Bats: Using colored icing, pipe three lines in an arc on the still-wet icing base. For each wing: Drag a wooden skewer across the width in alternating directions. Add eyes after icing has dried.
• Cobwebs: Pipe a spiral of black icing on the still-wet icing base. Pipe decorative dots on points of cookie. Using a wooden skewer, draw lines from the center outward, connecting the center of the web and the decorative dots. Add spiders to webs after icing has dried.

COBWEB COOKIES

Steps:

• Beat all ingredients except powdered sugar in medium bowl with electric mixer on medium speed until smooth. Pour batter into plastic squeeze bottle with narrow opening. Heat 8-inch skillet over medium heat until hot; grease lightly.
• Working quickly, squeeze batter to form 4 straight, thin lines that intersect at a common center point to form a star shape. To form cobweb, squeeze thin streams of batter to connect lines.
• Cook 30 to 60 seconds or until bottom is golden brown; carefully turn. Cook until golden brown; remove from skillet. Cool on wire rack.
• Heat oven to 325°F. Bake cookies on ungreased cookie sheet 5 to 7 minutes or until almost crisp (cookies will become crisp as they cool). Remove from cookie sheet; cool. Sprinkle with powdered sugar. Store cookies in container with loose-fitting cover.

COBWEB COOKIES

Steps:

• Line a cookie sheet/ baking tray with baking/parchment paper.
• Sift the flour, cocoa together and add the small pieces of butter and using clean fingers ( or a pastry cutter) rub it completely into the flour/cocoa mixture so that looks like fine crumbs.
• Then add the sugar and milk and stir together with a fork so that it begins to form a dough. use clean hands to make your dough into a ball.
• Wrap your dough in cling film/ plastic wrap and refrigerate for 20 minutes.
• Pre-heat your oven to 350°F (180°C).
• Remove your dough from the fridge and sprinkle a little flour onto your clean working surface. Roll out your dough until it is about 1/4 inch ( 5 mm) thick, then use your jar lid or cookie cutter to make circles, which you can then place on your cooking sheet / tray.
• Bake for 10-12 minutes, then leave them on the tray for another 5 minutes so that they will be firm up enough to remove, after this carefully transfer them to a wire rack to cool completely before adding the glaze/ icing.
• Now draw a spiral of icing onto each cookie and while it is still wet, drag a cocktail stick out from the centre of the cookie to the outside ed"ge to make a spider's web effect.

HALLOWEEN COBWEB COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
• In a medium bowl with an electric mixer, beat all the ingredients (except the powdered sugar) until combined. Pour batter into a plastic squeeze bottle with a narrow opening.
• Heat a griddle over medium until hot; grease lightly.
• Working quickly, squeeze batter to form 4 thin, straight lines that intersect at a common center point to form a star. Then squeeze curved thin streams of the batter to connect the lines. Cook 30 seconds or until golden brown; carefully flip and cook for another 30 seconds.
• Transfer cookies to a nonstick cookie sheet.
• Bake for 5 minutes until almost crisp.
• Transfer to a wire rack to cool and continue to crisp up.
• Sprinkle with powdered sugar and enjoy!NOTE: These are very easy to make, but can be a bit finicky. Don't miss our "Tips for Success" in the full article.