Spiderweb Brownies Recipe
Spiderweb Brownies – transform boxed brownie mix into a super cute Halloween treat!! A quick homemade cheesecake mixture makes the spider web. Makes 2 brownies. SO fun!!! #Halloween #brownies #kidfriendly
This idea was inspired from the King Arthur Flour catalog. Isn’t it adorable?! King Arthur’s recipe said to make the brownies and cream filled cookies from scratch. While I would love to do that, I wanted a quick and easy Halloween dessert. I immediately thought of Oreo Cakester for the spiders! They were perfect!! I loved how the spiders turned out. I think they totally made the brownie treat. These were really fun to make. I gave them to a co-worker to take home to her boys. They loved them!
Yield: 16
Spiderweb Brownies
prep time: 10 MINScook time: 20 MINStotal time: 30 mins
INGREDIENTS:
Brownies
- 1 box brownie mix (Family Size for 9×13 pan)
Spiderweb Mixture
- 4-oz cream cheese, at room temperature
- 2 Tbsp sugar
- 1 Tbsp flour
- 1 egg yolk
- ½ tsp almond extract
Spider
- 2 Oreo cookies
- black licorice
- 4 mini chocolate chips
- white icing
INSTRUCTIONS:
- Preheat oven to 350ºF. Lightly spray two 8-inch round cake pans with cooking spray.
- Prepare brownie mix according to package directions. Pour batter into prepared cake pans.
- Combine the cream cheese, sugar and flour in a small bowl, and mix until smooth. Add the egg yolk and almond extract, mixing until smooth once again. Transfer the mixture to a disposable pastry bag, and cut just the very tip off the end.
- Place a small pool of the mixture in the center of the brownie batter. Draw circles around this pool, about 1 inch apart, moving out from the center each time. Once the circles are drawn, take a table knife, wet the tip, and draw it back and forth through the circles.
- The knife will draw the cream cheese filling into arcs. Once you’ve gone all the way around the circles, take up your pastry bag again. Use the remaining filling to trace the path where the knife travelled, to create the spokes of the web.
- Bake the brownies for 20-25 minutes, until the brownies just barely pull away from the edge of the pan. The center will rise while baking, but will sink back level once the brownies are cool. Remove them from the oven and cool before cutting.
- To assemble the spider. Cut 8 pieces of licorice for each spider. Stick the licorice around the Oreo to make legs (4 on each side). Pipe 2 circles for eyes and place a mini chocolate chip in the middle of each.
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They were great! I'm the lucky coworker:)!
Adorable! Thanks for sharing!
Silly question – how did you get the brownies to come out of the pans so nicely? Mine always seem too sticky.
I saw this in their catalog, cool, you made them. Thanks for the comment on my foliage post 😉
Cute!
~ingrid
That is so cute! My son will love this!!
These are adorable. I must make them very soon. Also, wanted to let you know I checked out King Arthur Flour's website and saw the recipe and their picture. I think yours looks even better than theirs. The oreo cakester was a great idea.
Love, love, love it! Your web looks great and your spider is so cute!
Cutest idea ever, and may I say that you have the luckiest co-workers EVER? 😉
I swear I've gained 10 pounds just looking at all these yummy Halloween treats. So creative!
Way too cute!!
I think you have inspired me to make these for our halloween horse show!
Each member brings something for the concession stand. I think these will be terrrific.
So cute.