Featured Recipe: Spider Cookies (Vegan)

Featured Recipe: Spider Cookies (Vegan)

A fun and delicious way to get the kids involved this Halloween, these sweet treats are sure to be a creepy crowd pleaser!
Prep Time15 minutes
Cook Time12 minutes
Total Time27 minutes
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: North American
Servings: 24 Cookies

Ingredients

Cookies:

  • 0.66 Cup “Rogers” Organic Cane Sugar
  • 0.66 Cup Organic Brown Sugar
  • 0.66 Cup “Maison D’Orphee Extra Virgin Coconut Oil
  • 0.5 Cup "Almond Breeze" Almond Milk (Unsweetened)
  • 2 tbsp "Simply Organic" Vanilla Extract
  • 2.5 Cups Organic Spelt Flour
  • 1 tsp Aliminum Free Baking Soda
  • 1 tsp “El Peto” Aluminum Free Baking Powder
  • 0.5 tsp Sea Salt
  • 0.75 Cup “Enjoy Life” Chocolate Chips

Decoration:

  • 24 Dried Black Mission Figs
  • 0.25 Pack “Candy Tree” Organic Licorice Laces (75g Pack)
  • 0.25 Cup “Enjoy Life” Chocolate Chips (Melted)

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 350F.
  • In a medium mixing bowl, combine brown sugar, cane sugar, almond milk, vanilla extract and coconut oil.
  • In a separate bowl, combine the spelt flour, baking soda, baking powder and sea salt.
  • Combine wet and dry ingredients, add chocolate chips and mix until evenly distributed.
  • Scoop cookies onto two parchment lined baking sheets pressing them down slightly before placing in the oven.
  • Bake for 10-12 minutes and allow to cool before decorating.
  • Cut the licorice laces into desired length “spider legs” and use one black mission fig per cookie as the “spider body”.
  • Get your kids involved in decorating and dip each of the elements into the melted chocolate to help them stick to the cookie.
    Spider Cookies

Notes

Each Serving Contains:
205 calories; 3 g protein; 10 g total fat (0 g trans fat); 28g total carbohydrates (17 g of sugar); 182 mg sodium