Contributed by Sophie Baxter 
This is just the perfect activity to keep your children busy over Halloween. It requires no cooking whatsoever and is especially safe, mess free and fun to make with small and bigger children.
They are perfect to put in the children’s party bags as a take home treat, so get your little monsters to wash their hands and start the Halloween fun!
My children (2 ½ and 3 ½) loved making these Halloween spiders (result pictured here). They particularly enjoyed eating the spiders’ legs first and waving them at me while shouting with delight “Look Mummy, my spider’s got no legs!â€. They laughed even more when I pretended to be scared!
Ingredients to make Halloween Spiders:
1 Packet of mini digestive biscuits or chocolate chip cookies
1 pack of marzipan (I like pre-rolled marzipan best as blocks can be difficult to lay out thin! You might require more marzipan if you want to make lots of spiders. We only made four spiders with a small pack)
Rolled liquorice sweets – unrolled and chopped in 1 3/4 inch pieces (you can unroll the liquorice strands and chop them in advance if you are making those Halloween spiders with smaller children – older children will enjoy doing it themselves)
Preparation:
Roll the marzipan out with a rolling pin and cut out 1 ¾ inches circles of marzipan using a cookie cutter or the top of a small glass – the marzipan discs need to be a little larger than your biscuits.
Take one of your marzipan discs and fix 4 liquorice legs on each side, letting them hang out on the outside. Put a biscuit and second almond paste disc on top and press gently to seal the sides. Don’t forget to make eyes for your spiders with small balls of marzipan or tiny pieces of liquorice.
It’s time to scare each other while eating your spiders!
Have a great Halloween party!
Photo: Sophie Baxter
Sophie Baxter a business Mom and owner of www.bigfatballoons.co.uk an online shop offering helium balloons, teddy bears and gift delivery across the UK, helps you keep the kids busy this Halloween with this “Spooky Halloween Spiders†recipe.
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2 responses so far ↓
Dom // Oct 30, 2006 at 2:21 pm
Mmmm. First time I’ve ever wanted to eat spiders!
Mama Luxe // Oct 9, 2007 at 5:13 pm
I am totally arachnophobic and those are great! We’re actually having a Halloween recipe carnival (there’s a prize, too, but I can only ship on this side of the pond). But I wanted to tell you how cool your recipe is. I’d still love if you’d come share as part of the carnival…and see the other recipes!
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