Lately Owen’s favorite song is The Incy Wincy Spider. He loves to make his little fingers crawl up the water spout like a spider. It is sooo cute.
And I guess it’s fitting to sing a song about spiders around Halloween. I don’t think he’s ever even seen a real spider, but he seems to know what they are.
Since he’s so into the song, I thought he would think these Spider Web Snacks were pretty cool.
And I was right. He kept pointing to the spider and doing the incy wincy thing. And then he ate four of them while I sang the Incy Wincy Spider song on repeat. Then we took a plate to his buddy Max, who also thought eating a spider was very cool.
These are such a fun Halloween treat for kids and are so easy to make! All you need is pretzel sticks, white chocolate bark/candy coating, chocolate chips or bark, and M&M’s (or raisins or other candy for the spider).
You start by laying the pretzels out in “starburst” shapes on a piece of wax paper.
With the melted white chocolate you pipe a the web, starting at the inside working your way out.
Next you place a glob of white chocolate in the center and stick an M&M in it for the spider’s body. With the regular chocolate pipe over the M&M, covering it, then pipe the spider legs (My spiders are not perfect….especially the legs….mine have 6. oops).
Just let them dry completely then gently peel them off the wax paper. And that’s it!
Halloween Spider Web Snacks
Ingredients
Pretzel sticks
White chocolate bark/candy coating
Chocolate chips or chocolate bark
M&M’s (or other candy of your choice for body of spider)
Wax paper
Instructions
On a piece of wax paper lay out the pretzels in “starburst” arrangements of 6 or 8 pretzels.
Melt your white chocolate and place in a baggie and cut the corner off (or use a pastry bag).
Start piping your chocolate in the middle of the pretzel arrangement. Continue piping outward around the pretzels, until you have a web.
Pipe a glob of white chocolate over the center where all the pretzels meet and immediately place an M&M in it for the body of the spider.
Melt your regular chocolate, place in a baggie or pastry bag, and pipe over the M&M. Then pipe little spider legs.
Let dry completely before gently peeling off the wax paper.
source: Mom Endeavors
What a clever idea! Definitely have to try that.
How fun! I bet my munchkin would love these!
These are so cute-would love to make them for my kids for halloween-thanks:)
So fun that you made the spider web pretzels and to see your different twist on it with the m&m instead of the raisins! 🙂
Thanks Sara for the great idea!! My kiddo just doesn’t like raisins so I had to use something else. And I know he loves chocolate, so went with the M&Ms!