Broken Spiderweb Cookies – 13 Days of Halloween Cookie Decorating

It’s time for Day 5 of the 13 Days of Halloween cookie decorating tutorials! These creepy spiderweb cookies have a purposely messy, broken look to show that the spider has already captured its prey.

The plus side to these spiderweb cookies is that you can be an absolute beginner to achieve the perfect broken web. Kids and adults will both love this one.

I don’t know which is worse to see, a broken spiderweb or a strong new one. Both typically mean a spider is near and I am not about that life. Just thinking about spiders gives me the shivers.

Although, giving someone the shivers is what Halloween parties and treats are all about I suppose. Let’s dive into the tutorial for how to make these creepy broken spiderweb cookies!

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Part 1: Gathering the Supplies for the Halloween Eyeball Cookies

To make these decorated buttercream eyeball cookies for your Halloween party, you will want to gather:

• 2 Icing bags
• 2 Couplers
• Wilton #1 and #5 tip sizes – buy these individually at a bake supply store or purchase this kit
• Spiderweb cookie cutter – I used the one in this set which includes cookie cutters used for my other Halloween decorating tutorials as well
• Wilton black gel food dye, I’ve found the best price at Walmart
• Palette knife to smooth the black frosting
• Ingredients for a crusting buttercream, find my crusting buttercream icing recipe here
• Ingredients for sugar cookie dough, find my no spread sugar cookies recipe here
  • I used my espresso chip sugar cookie recipe which is coming soon to you!

Part 2: Baking the Cookies and Setting up Your Icing Bags

1. Roll, cut out, and bake your sugar cookies according to the recipe. You will be able to make about 24 sugar cookies with the cookie cutter & recipes linked above.
2. Make your buttercream icing and pull out about a cup of frosting. Place that cup into an icing bag with a coupler.
3. Mix in the black gel dye to the rest of the frosting on low speed to reduce overmixing. You only need to get the frosting to a dark gray shade, as the color will deepen when the frosting dries on the cookie. Pull out about a cup of black frosting at a time to fill an icing bag set up with a coupler.
   • If you don’t know how to set up icing bags with couplers, just hop over to my Getting Started: Learn How to Decorate Buttercream Cookies page for a detailed explanation.

Part 3: The Tutorial for How to Make Spiderweb Cookies

Check out the video here to see how to make these decorated buttercream sugar cookies. Then, check out the breakdown step-by-step photo series tutorial below.

1. Attach the tip #5 to the black icing bag and outline and fill in the shape of the whole spiderweb cookie. Then, use the palette knife to smooth out the frosting. It doesn’t need to be perfectly smooth. The black frosting will dry so dark that it will appear smoother than it really is.
2. Attach the tip #1 to the white icing bag and begin drawing curved lines across the spiderweb cookie.
3. Start drawing in the spirals to connect the web together.
4. Continue to add lines to the spiderweb. The lines shouldn’t always be uniform since we want these spiderweb cookies to look broken as if the spider has already caught its prey! 

These spiderweb cookies are perfect for kids to decorate as a fun Halloween activity. Adults can help smooth the cookies if necessary, but really, the black icing doesn’t need to be that smooth.

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I’d love to know in the comments below, are you also super scared of spiders like me?