spiderweb mom and baby cookies

do spiders give you the heebie jeebies?

i had a roommate once who screamed at the top of her lungs every time she saw a spider.

i'd be in my room watching tv when all of a sudden there was this blood curdling scream that scared me half to death only to find out it was a teeny tiny spider and my roommate would be jumping on her bed and pointing to the spider speck.

it certainly didn't help that we had a LOT of spiders in that florida apartment.

it got to be so that i would just get up at the clang of the scream, grab the broom, whisk the spider outside, all the while not saying a word, while my roomie freaked out. 

ahhh the memories.

i shoulda made her these cookies.

perhaps she woulda ended up liking spiders after all.

have you tried these new cookie sheets? 

i got them at walmart.

man what a time saver!

and they're yummy too :)

i got the cookie cutter but when i used the spider, the legs kept getting stuck in the cutter so all i got was 

this oval body thing. 

so i compromised.

by making little dough balls.

too bad they don't stay puffy.

they're cute.

so let's make them cuter.

i just used betty crocker cookie icing. 

everything ready made to make these cookies. 

that way they're done and done in a little over 1/2 hr.

are all these spiders giving you the heebie jeebies?

i hear when you have them you can't see straight.

you ok?

well gosh spider mom, you just had like what, 

a thousand babies? 

give yourself a break.

i guess you figure i do not get the heebie jeebies when it comes to spiders. 

but i do thinking what it would be like to be a mom of a thousand kids.

so one more time to test your heebie jeebieness with spiders.

just stare at the next picture for a minute or two.

how'd you do?

if you got them one way to cure it,

(whatever the heck heebie jeebies are by the way) 

is to eat them...

silly pumpkin, bat and spider cake pops

are you like sick and tired of halloween yet?

are you like sooooo over the scary treats you could just die from redundancy already?

i mean, we've only had halloween posts since august on some blogs and it feels like halloween will never get here.

but alas, it will be here soon enough so i am gonna squeeze another halloween treat here.

so if you are sick of the holiday already, 

run, run as fast as you can!

but if you can stomach one more treat, 

well, then here ya go.

inspired by this scrapbook paper.

they come from the same line as these jars that i made a few weeks back.

i made these transfers for them not from royal icing, but from candy melt in a ziploc bag then kept frozen til ready to use.

you'll see in a sec that i didn't use all the transfers, as sometimes it was easier to just draw on the pops with a toothpick and melted candy melt than to transfer them. i just didn't plan too well ahead of time and apparently like to kill myself doing extra work :>P

anywho,

i used this frosting mixed with yellow cake mix and made the caramel bits rolled into stems.

made a bunch of irregular shaped cake pops in various sizes.

i didn't care about making them all matchy matchy same sized either. 

i often wonder how the heck cake pop people do that anyway without a mold?!?!... 

oh well, where were we?

oh yeah,

 then i got to work.

so you can see here, the candy melt transfers came to good use for the legs and wings. but when you attach them you gotta act fast so they don't melt from the heat of your hand.

and here is the finished project:

aren't they silly?

i messed up a little though, like on this one but was able to fix it by picking out the weird eyebrow lookin' eye, adding and smoothing out more candy melt and then drawing the right one using a toothpick..

guess there's nothing left to do now but say

what? is it gonna be halloween already?

why didn't anybody say something?

:>O