Chocolate Spider Web
These Chocolate Spider Webs are a simple and festive Halloween treat made with crisp pretzel sticks and creamy white chocolate. A gummy spider sits in the center of each delicate chocolate web, creating an eye-catching edible decoration that's easy to make for Halloween parties.
Equipment
- Double boiler or two saucepans
- Baking sheet
- Parchment paper
- Cutting Board
- Knife
- Pastry bag
- Wilton #3 decorating tip
- Refrigerator
Ingredients
- 12 thin pretzel sticks
- 1 gummy spider
- 2 blocks white chocolate or a similar amount of white melting chocolate
Instructions
- Chop some of the white chocolate into smaller pieces.
- Set up a double boiler to melt white chocolate by placing a small saucepan over a larger saucepan containing a couple of inches of water. Bring the water to a low boil and melt the chocolate gently.
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Arrange the 12 pretzel sticks in a wheel-spoke pattern, leaving enough space between them for the chocolate web.
- Transfer the melted white chocolate to a pastry bag fitted with a Wilton #3 tip.
- Arrange your pretzels on a piece of parchment paper, on a baking sheet, to look like a wheel spoke
- Pipe a small center that connects all the pretzel spokes.
- Starting from the center, pipe circles around the pretzels, continuing outward until the web is complete. Place the gummy spider in the center of the chocolate web.
- Refrigerate the baking sheet until the chocolate is completely chilled and hardened.
- Once firm, carefully peel the chocolate spider web away from the parchment paper and serve.
Notes
- Melt gently: Keep the water at a low boil and avoid getting water into the chocolate.
- Use parchment: It makes it much easier to remove the hardened web without breaking it.
- Pipe quickly: Work while the chocolate is fluid so the web connects properly to the pretzels.
- Keep the web on the baking sheet: Refrigerate it on the same sheet until completely hardened.
- Handle carefully: The chocolate web is delicate, so peel it from the parchment slowly and support it from underneath.