Royal Icing Spider Cookies for Halloween

These spider cookies for Halloween are a smaller version of the design on my Spider Queen Gown cookie that I posted last week. I made the spider webs using the wet-on-wet royal icing technique and finished them with a brush embroidery lace border. Watch the video in my Cookie Art Club!

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Here’s what you’ll need to make these spider cookies for Halloween

• Chilled sheet of cookie dough
• Ornate Square Plaque cookie cutter
• 1-¾” round cookie cutter to use as a guide for brush embroidery (not included in the bundle)
• Flood consistency royal icing in pink, dark purple, light purple, and black (see color combinations below)
• Stiff consistency royal icing in black
• Decorating bags
• Couplers
• Bag ties
• Decorating tip 3
• Decorating tip 2
• Decorating tip 1
• Scribe tool 
• Thin brush (you can use the small brush from the Wilton 5 piece set)

Read my Ultimate Guide To Royal Icing to learn all about royal icing consistencies.

Color Combinations (I used Chefmaster)

• Black = Black Diamond
• Pink = Neon Brite Pink
• Light and Dark Purple = 1 part Neon Brite Pink + 1 part Sky Blue

See my tips on how to make black royal icing.