Halloween is quickly approaching! Lucky for you, I have the perfect fall treat to get you in the Halloween spirit. Spider Web Cookie Cakes are super easy and customizable to your liking with the use of store-bought cookie dough and frosting. You’ll definitely be screaming for this delicious Halloween treat!

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Spiders and ghosts and pumpkins, oh my! Is it just me or are the aisles of every store being taken over by ALL THINGS HALLOWEEN?! What I find even scarier than fake roaches and rats being displayed for all to see, are the little sections of Christmas decor popping up here and there at Michaels and Joann’s.

Come on, people. Can’t we pump the brakes a little! I’m barely ready to say goodbye to summer…

The changing of seasons is actually pretty hard for me. It’s not that I don’t enjoy the fact that they are changing, it’s just that living in Florida we don’t have the “ normal” four seasons. We pretty much have summer, hotter summer, and rainy summer!

Since it’s still 90 plus degrees outside well into October, the weather doesn’t give me any inclination of the new season that’s approaching. I know when fall is on its way when pumpkin spice lattes become the crave at Starbucks and candy corns are displayed at the end of every aisle in the supermarket.

I knew it was time to start thinking about Halloween after walking into Walgreens last week and coming face to face with about 15 different varieties of candy corn. After buying way too many packages of the autumn harvest blend, and a new football variety that I have big plans for in the near future, I headed home determined to start whipping up some Halloween treats. Pumpkin Butter Squares and Warm Apple Cider are some of my all time favs, by the way.

My mind went directly to a Halloween-inspired cookie cake when deciding what to start this fall season off with. When Zach was younger, he had an overwhelming love for cookie cakes. Instead of the regular cupcakes that all the other moms brought in for their kids’ birthdays, he always requested I bring a cookie cake instead. I actually became a pro at cutting equal slices of cookie dough pieces throughout his 6 years in elementary school.

All I know is Zach better remember all these things I did for him when he grows up 😉

Cookie cakes can be as easy or as hard as you want them to be. For me, I went the easy route this time!

What do I mean by that? Instead of whipping together a homemade batch of cookie dough and buttercream frosting, I let Toll House and Pillsbury take the credit this time around by going with their premade varieties. It took me no time at all to create these adorable Spider Web Cookie Cakes. Curious how to make them? Let me teach you how!

So what do I need to make these spooky Spider Web Cookie Cakes?

Two 16 oz. containers of white frosting, black decorative icing, 30 oz. cookie dough (I used Toll House chocolate chip variety), food coloring (red, yellow, blue), 2 aluminum pie pans, cooking spray

Begin by preheating your oven to 350 degrees.

Spray your pie pans with cooking spray. I like using disposable aluminum pie pans when making my cookie cakes because I can easily remove the cookie from the pan. If you use a regular pie pan, I recommend lining the bottom with parchment paper for easy removal.

Next, split your 30 oz. package of cookie dough into the two pans. Use your hands to spread the dough inside the bottom of the two pans.

I went with chocolate chip for these cookie cakes but feel free to pick whatever variety your family enjoys whether that’s sugar, peanut butter, or even oatmeal raisin.

Place your cookie cakes in the oven for about 22 to 24 minutes.

While your cakes are cooking you can tint your frosting. I decided on one purple and one orange cookie cake. Remember your Kindergarten days, red + blue =purple and yellow + red = orange.

Mix the food coloring into the frosting and set them aside. I went with the basic white frosting but feel free to pick any white variety you’d like for your cookie cakes.

With the frosting mixed and ready to go, check on your cookie cakes. You’re looking for your cookie cakes to be golden brown on top like so. Again, that’s after about 22 to 24 minutes.

Let the cookie cakes cool in the pans for about 10 minutes. If you try removing the cakes from the pan too soon they’ll just end up falling apart.

Once your cakes have cooled, you can take a pair of scissors and make four little cuts at 12, 3, 6, and 9 (think a clock!).

Carefully pull back the pan from the cookie cake. It should come off easily, just like so.

Transfer your cakes to serving platters.

Frost one cake with the orange frosting and the other with the purple.

With the black decorative icing, start in the center and begin making circles. See what I mean in the picture below.

Using a toothpick, start from the center circle and drag the toothpick all the way out to the edges.

Do this around the circumference of the entire cookie cake.

Here’s the final product in orange.

Both equally cute and “Halloweeny”, don’t you think?!

These Spider Web Cookie Cakes are the perfect fall treat to start the Halloween season off right. Let the baking season begin, folks!

And for some more SPOOKTACULAR Halloween ideas, click below to check out these amazing posts written by some of my beautiful blogging friends. They have some pretty fun ideas to kick off the fall season. I hope you enjoy reading their posts as much as I have!

Jaclyn over at Coffee, Pancakes and Dreams is sharing 6 Spooktacular Things to Do at Home for Halloween with Kids.

Keri over at Intentional Motherhood is sharing 5 Minute Halloween Treats.

Sharlene over at Good Parenting Brighter Children teaches us how to make Fall Stovetop Potpourri.

 

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