Begrudgingly heading to a cookie exchange and don’t have time to make cookies? Can’t go empty handed to a friend’s house this holiday without an edible offering? Hate baking? Oven broken? Can’t face long ingredient lists? Spiders are your answer. Arachnophobes, fear not… these spiders don’t bite back.
I challenge anyone to produce a cookie recipe with less ingredients! Only two! And, these look fun and taste yummy. The chow mein noodles produce the crunchy/salty that matches oh so well with the chocolatey/sweet. Many of those who received my mixed cookie plate this season were pleasantly surprised by these tangled bites.
Spider Cookies
12 oz. Chocolate or butterscotch chips
12 oz. Chow Mein Noodles
(Use approximately equal parts of any chocolate or chip and the noodles. Just add the noodles little by little until all are liberally coated)
Melt the chocolate in a double boiler OR in the microwave. For smaller cookie clusters (which I found easier to manage), use your hands while noodles are still in the bag to break them up for slightly smaller pieces. Add chow mein noodles into the melted chocolate and gently stir to coat them all. Drop spoonfulls on to wax paper and let them cool.
Ideas:
-Use white chocolate for albino spiders!
-Try some flavored chocolate like a smooth praline bar or some Exotic Chocolate Chips like curry & coconut or ancho & chipotle chili.
- Mix in 1/2 cup of peanut butter
- Mix in peanuts or nuts.
December 20th, 2007 at 11:17 am
brilliant!!! love the simplicity…
December 20th, 2007 at 2:56 pm
You can also make these with the little stick pretzels for a more pronounced salty/sweet thing. I hadn’t thought of making these at all– nice reminder!
December 20th, 2007 at 5:25 pm
AWESOME!!! I’m going to make these.
December 24th, 2007 at 6:50 pm
Yay! I like mine with butterscotch, peanuts and coconut.
December 28th, 2007 at 6:18 pm
I have never heard of these…love the sweet and salty combo though! And they’re strangely cute!
January 7th, 2009 at 10:21 pm
[...] Well, I was in to it at first. I planned to make many different kinds of cookies, like last year when I made these and these and these and these. Instead, it got to be too much and the dog-eared magazines and bookmarked web recipes led to excessive option paralysis and drove me straight back to the plain old chocolate chips. [...]
February 1st, 2009 at 3:45 pm
This unique recipe is gonna be tried out tonite..ty :)
March 17th, 2010 at 5:27 pm
There are similar to a family favorite of ours that has four ingredients – semi sweet chips, butterscotch chips, chow mein noodles and spanish peanuts. Easy and dangerously tasty!
December 7th, 2010 at 5:14 pm
[...] Snaps – These fit perfectly in the containers! The Best White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookies Spiders – These are sturdy so a heap of them does well inside the container. Snicker Doodles – [...]
March 24th, 2011 at 3:15 pm
can you tell me the amounts in cups for those who buy ingredients in bulk? thanks so much!
April 27th, 2011 at 1:27 pm
1C = 8oz => 12oz = 1 & 1/2 C… :/
April 29th, 2012 at 9:35 am
I make something similar called haystacks……1c choc chips 1c butterscotch chips melt in microwave 2′ then add 1 c mini marshmallows 1 cup salted p-nuts and 2 c noodles I keep mine in the freezer…..
August 11th, 2012 at 5:47 pm
Hi, I love ” Easy, cheap and super tasty” recipes too.
I will be adding this to my Christmas baking list and
thinking of some sugarfree alternatives as well. You
have just given me some really great ideas, and I like
the looks and variety of them. The possibilities are
endless with these little babies. Good job.