Spider Pretzels Halloween Lunch Box Surprise Recipes

PRETZEL SPIDERS

Steps:

• Mix yeast and sugar in a bowl. Add warm water and whisk until sugar dissolves. Let yeast bloom for about 10 minutes.
• Mix flour and salt in a bowl of an electric mixer. Mix chopped, cold butter into flour on low speed until mixture starts to resemble coarse crumbs.
• Slowly pour yeast mixture into flour mixture, while still mixing on low, until just combined. Using your hands, gather dough together. Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface, and knead until no longer sticky, for a couple of minutes. Place in a medium bowl and cover with plastic.
• Let dough rise in a warm, dry place for about an hour.
• Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper.
• Roll the dough into a log and divide it into 4 equal pieces.
• Divide each piece into two more pieces, one a little bigger than the other. The piece that is a little bigger, roll it into a log and divide into 8 equal pieces. That will be the spider's legs. The piece that is a little smaller, roll into an oval and then twist the top of it one time, to form the head and body of the spider.
• Repeat with remaining 3 dough pieces. Let all the pieces of the spiders rest while heating up the water and preheating the oven.
• Preheat the oven to 450 and line a large baking sheet with parchment paper.
• Bring a large, deep cooking pan of water to a boil and add baking soda, stir well. Turn the heat down to medium-high. Boil pretzel pieces in batches until puffed, about 30-45 seconds.
• Take them out with a slopped spatula onto the baking sheet.
• Gently press the legs of the spider into the body, so that they are touching each other at the base. Press very gently.
• Generously sprinkle with poppy seeds. Sprinkle a little coarse salt over the top.
• Gently press in olives for spider's eyes.
• Bake until golden brown, 10 minutes.

SPIDER BITES

Steps:

• Place parchment paper on baking sheet; set aside.
• In a large glass microwave-safe bowl combine chocolate chips and peanut butter. Melt on high for 2 to 3 minutes. Remove and stir until smooth.
• Stir in pretzel sticks. With clean hands grab pretzel sticks and drop on prepared baking sheet in clusters to look like spiders.
• Place in freezer for 5 minutes or until to chocolate is hardened. Remove and serve.

HALLOWEEN SPOOKY SPIDER SNACKS (FUN FOR THE KIDS TO MAKE)

Steps:

• Spread 1 tsp peanut butter on the tops of 24 crackers.
• Place three noodles on each side of cracker to look like three legs on each side (I know - not anatomically correct).
• Top with remaining crackers.
• Place small dot of peanut butter on two raisins per cracker and stick the raisins on the crackers to look like eyes.

SPIDER PRETZELS (HALLOWEEN)

Steps:

• With the peanut butter, make a cracker sandwich.
• Insert 8 pretzel "legs" into the filling.
• With a dab of peanut butter, set 2 raisin eyes on top.

SPOOKY SPIDER HALLOWEEN HOT DOGS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
• Unroll crescent dough. Pinch or press the perforation between the triangles to get 4 rectangular pieces. Cut rectangles in half lengthwise so you have 8 narrow strips.
• Make a 2-inch slice through the center of one end of a hot dog. Cut two more 2-inch slices on either side of that, so that the 'legs' are about the same thickness. Repeat on the other end. Cut 'legs' into the remaining hot dogs.
• Roll a crescent strip around the center of each dog. Place spider dogs on an ungreased baking sheet.
• Bake in the preheated oven until golden brown, about 11 minutes. Dip a chopstick into some ketchup and dot 'eyes' onto each spider. Serve with remaining ketchup.

SPOOKY SPIDER SNACKS

Steps:

• Spread 1 teaspoon of peanut butter on the tops of 24 crackers. Place four noodles on each side of each cracker; top with the remaining crackers. Spread a small amount of peanut butter on each raisin; place two on each cracker for eyes.

SPIDER SNACKS

Steps:

• Spread each of 6 crackers with 1 tsp. peanut butter; cover with second cracker for the spider's body.
• Insert 8 pretzel sticks into peanut butter layer in each sandwich for spider's legs.
• Spread 1 tsp. of the remaining peanut butter onto top of each spider. Decorate with sprinkles. Add currants for the eyes.