Spooky spider apples
Makes: 9
Prep time: 30 minsTotal time: 
Recipe photograph by Stuart West
Spooky spider apples
These easy eight-legged friends will be a hit at your Halloween do this year. Use vegan chocolate, if required
Makes: 9
Prep time: 30 minsTotal time: 
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Nutritional information (per serving)
Calories
0Kcal
Abigail Spooner
Abi is our Head of Food. She loves the precision and creativity of baking, turning fridge odds-and-ends into a weeknight pasta, and is always bookmarking new restaurants to try. She's happiest hosting friends around a table overflowing with food (and insisting everyone has seconds) or planning holidays around what to eat.
Abigail Spooner
Abi is our Head of Food. She loves the precision and creativity of baking, turning fridge odds-and-ends into a weeknight pasta, and is always bookmarking new restaurants to try. She's happiest hosting friends around a table overflowing with food (and insisting everyone has seconds) or planning holidays around what to eat.
Ingredients
- 250g dark chocolate
- 100g peanut butter
- 3 apples
- 36 pretzel sticks
- White ready-to-roll icing
- Black writing icing (optional)
Step by step
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Melt the dark chocolate in a heatproof bowl over a pan of gently simmering water. Slice each apple into 6 discs, to give 18 slices. Spread each with peanut butter.
Halve 36 pretzel sticks (we used Lajkonik brand), and place 8 ‘legs’ onto half the apple slices. Place a cocktail stick or lolly stick down the centre of each, sticking out from the spider’s body to act as a handle. Sandwich with the remaining apple slices, peanut butter-side down.
Spoon the melted chocolate over the apple slices and pretzel stick legs to coat and place on a baking paper-lined tray to set.
Roll 18 small balls of white ready-to-roll icing and stick on to form the spiders’ eyes. Dot with the remaining melted dark chocolate or black writing icing to give the pupils, then leave to set.
