Spider web pretzels are an easy homemade Halloween candy, no baking required, yet they are deliciously spooktacular!
Why This Recipe Works
- Sweet and salty
- Simple
- No technical ability required, kids will LOVE making and eating them
Ingredients you will need
To make my Halloween Pretzel Spider Webs you will need:
- Pretzel sticks
- White chocolate drops
- Raisins (optional)
- Milk chocolate drops (optional)
Ingredient Notes and Substitutes
- Pretzel sticks and white chocolate: form the spider webs
- Raisins or sultanas: decorate the spider webs, they look like dead flies! They are optional.
- Milk chocolate drops: Are used to create a spider on the spider web. They are optional
I am an ambassador for Countdown supermarket, they support my blog by providing ingredients for recipe creation and testing. I used salted pretzel sticks, sultanas, and white and milk chocolate drops from their range in this recipe.
How to make Halloween Pretzels
Below are illustrated step-by-step instructions to make my Spider Web Halloween Pretzels, if you prefer just the written instructions then head straight to the printable recipe card below.
Step one: Lay the pretzel sticks out in a star shape (8 sticks per spider web) on baking paper or a silicon mat.
Step two: Melt the white chocolate. I do this in the microwave. Microwave uncovered on medium (50%) for 1 minute, stir. Repeat this process until the chocolate has melted. Transfer the white chocolate to a piping bag.
Step three: Starting in the centre of each spider web pipe a good blob of white chocolate (this will help to hold the pretzel sticks together). Then gradually spiral the melted white chocolate out over the pretzel sticks to form spider webs.
Flies (optional): Pop a few raisins onto each of the spider webs, these will look like dead flies
Spiders (optional): Melt the milk chocolate. I do this in the microwave. Microwave uncovered on medium (50%) for 1 minute, stir. Repeat this process until the chocolate has melted
- Transfer the milk chocolate to a piping bag.
- In the centre of each web pipe, 4 fine wiggly lines of milk chocolate (these will be the spider legs) In the centre of the legs place a milk chocolate drop to form the body of the spider.
Step six: Leave the spider webs to harden (you can speed this process up by chilling them in the fridge for a little while.
Enjoy!
Top Tips
Here is how you can make these Pretzel Spider Webs for Halloween perfectly every time!
- Hack for filling a piping bag: Sit your piping bag in a tall glass, fold the edges of the bag over the glass, this will keep the piping bag upright and open while you fill it.
- You don't need a special piping tip when making these Halloween pretzels, just cut off a very small corner from the bottom of the piping bag.
- Once the chocolate has hardened the spider web pretzels will last for up to 7 days in an air-tight container
Other Easy Halloween Recipes
Over the years I have ended up with a wee collection of simple Halloween recipes
- Witch Finger Cookies
- Mummy Cookies
- Spooky frozen yoghurt bark
- Coconut Boo-nanas
- Halloween Snack Platter
Spider Web Pretzels
Ingredients
- 100 grams white chocolate drops
- 80 grams pretzel sticks
- 50 grams milk chocolate drops
- raisins
Instructions
Spider web
- Lay the pretzel sticks out in a star shape (8 sticks per spider web) on baking paper or a silicon mat.
- Melt the white chocolate. I do this in the microwave. Microwave uncovered on medium (50%) for 1 minute, stir. Repeat this process until the chocolate has melted.
- Transfer the white chocolate to a piping bag.
- Starting in the centre of each spider web pipe a good blob of white chocolate (this will help to hold the pretzel sticks together). Then gradually spiral the melted white chocolate out over the pretzel sticks to form spider webs.
Flies (optional)
- Pop a few raisins onto each of the spider webs, these will look like dead flies.
- Melt the milk chocolate. I do this in the microwave. Microwave uncovered on medium (50%) for 1 minute, stir. Repeat this process until the chocolate has melted.
Spider (optional)
- Transfer the milk chocolate to a piping bag.
- In the centre of each web pipe 4 fine wiggly lines of milk chocolate (these will be the spider legs) In the centre of the legs place a milk chocolate drop to form the body of the spider.
- Leave the spider webs to harden (you can speed this process up by chilling them in the fridge for a little while.
Notes
- Hack for filling a piping bag: Sit your piping bag in a tall glass, fold the edges of the bag over the glass, this will keep the piping bag upright and open while you fill it.
- You don't need a special piping tip when making these Halloween pretzels, just cut off a very small corner from the bottom of the piping bag.
- Once the chocolate has hardened the spider web pretzels will last for up to 7 days in an air-tight container
Karen Martin says
A neat idea