That same year, Martha Stewart asked readers to send in their best kid's costume pictures and it made it onto her website!!! Yes, kiddo is on Martha's website. You never know...it could be framed in her office, too. Or in her wallet. (Stranger things have happened.)
That picture was from 4th grade. Kiddo is now in 8th grade...and looks like this.
{{Hug your babies, you guys. Time flies.}}
So, the cookies. I knew I wanted to make some spiderwebs. I wanted to use some different colors, but all I could visualize were black, orange, purple, green...black, orange, purple, green...black, orange, purple, green. Don't get me wrong, I like those colors. Then, it came to me in a flash of 80's nostalgia...preppy.
One note about the navy color. I mixed AmeriColor Navy with AmeriColor Super Black. You'll want to bring the color to a deep blue, but it won't look navy until it dries. (You'll see from the how-to pictures how much the color deepens.)
To make the sparkly spiderwebs, you'll need:
- rectangle or square sugar cookies
- royal icing, divided and tinted navy (using AmeriColor Navy & Super Black), Bright White, and Electric Pink
- couplers and tips: #2, 5, 1, star 15
- disposable icing bags
- toothpicks
- squeeze bottles
- optional: disco dust, rainbow & raspberry
- meringue powder
- paintbrushes
Thin the base color icing with water, a bit at a time, stirring with a silicone spatula, until it is the consistency of a thick syrup. You'll want to drop a "ribbon" of icing back into the bowl and have it disappear in a count of "one thousand one, one thousand two." Four is too thick, one is too thin. Count of 2-3 is good. Cover with a damp dishcloth and let sit for several minutes.
Stir gently with a silicone spatula to pop and large air bubbles that have formed. Pour into squeeze bottle.
Let the cookies dry for at least one hour.
If desired, add the disco dust. Details on applying it are here. I used a very thin paintbrush to go over the web and legs of the spider.
After the dusted cookies have dried about 30 minutes or more, use a dry paintbrush to brush away the excess.
Let me live vicariously through you. What are your kids, grandkids, nieces, nephews going to be this Halloween?!?
Your kiddo looks super cute! and that outfit is candy genius :)
ReplyDeleteThese cookies and an episode of Jem and the Holograms would be perfect!
ReplyDeleteI was just thinking that! Very fun, comic book, spunky-like.
DeleteI love, love, love your color choices! Way to break away from the traditional Halloween colors. I am totally digging the disco dust as well, it adds that little something. Happy Halloween!
ReplyDeleteThese are adorable and I love the colors you chose! My little one (he’ll be two in a few months) is going to be a lion :) He loves to say “Rawr!” so we thought it was only appropriate :)
ReplyDeleteThese are fantastic! Definitely some of the most adorable (uh, I mean: SCARY!) Halloween cookies I've ever seen!!
ReplyDeleteTrust me, Spiders have been preppy for quite a long time...at least here at the University of Richmond. (Yes, our mascot is the Spider. Creepy, I agree.) For a second I thought you had actually made UR cookies, but then I sadly realized that was pink, not red. So close.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree about colours! Also my halloween cookies have different colors:-) And your cookies are always gorgeous, ciao
ReplyDeleteThose cookies are so cute, and I love the different colors!!
ReplyDeleteSeriously adorable. Seriously.
ReplyDeleteAlso..sparkle...all the way :)
So cute! I'm all about the sparkle, even though both versions look awesome!
ReplyDeleteLOVE this color combination. Love the glitter even more. :)
ReplyDeleteI love the colour combo! And I dread the day my kid doesn't want to dress up, I love it!
ReplyDeletelove, love, love them!!!
ReplyDeleteLove, love, love the colors!!! So fun!
ReplyDeleteI much prefer cute over scary at Halloween. Love these preppy spider cookies and the disco dust was the perfect finishing touch.
ReplyDeleteAdorable cookies. Might neeed to make some of those today. I know the feeling about the kids getting too old. I have one that has given up the costumes but one that still dresses up. She will be Effie Trinket from the Hunger Games. (I tried to paste a picture but it wouldn't work)
ReplyDeleteThose are gorgeous!!! And the title of your post made me run right over...I love it! :)
ReplyDeleteOur girlies are going to be monarch butterflies. They're 3 1/2, and I'm still choosing their costumes for them. I figure I'll be at their mercy for enough years in the future...I might as well enjoy it now! ;)
Happy Halloween!!!
I love that the colors are not orange and black. These are beautiful spider web cookies!
ReplyDeleteOkay so that costume is the coolest thing ever. And these COOKIES!!! Perfect. So pretty and sparkly and adorable. LOVE.
ReplyDeleteI love them so much! You totally rock!
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I love the preppy colors, and I agree with some of the other comments-I prefer cute over spooky. My munchkins like to dress with a theme together, so this year I have an 8 year old cat in the hat, things 1 & 2 are 7 & 5 years old, and the 3 month old is the fish. I hope I can get a great picture of them together!
ReplyDeleteThese cookies are just too cute!!! I'm sure I say that about all of your cookies, but its so true!
ReplyDeleteI have to say though that kiddo's 4th grade Halloween costume is just fantastic and so cool that it made it on Martha Stewart's website!!
It is clearly evident that Kiddo has always been too, too adorable! I'm sure he has his own fan club!
Love the colors!!! Too cute!
ReplyDeleteMy little man (2) is going as "Plex" from Yo Gabba Gabba. He's the robot character. We got the costume a while back and he's already so excited about it. He's a little young to take trick-or-treating still, so I think he'll help me pass out candy before he goes to bed.:)
ReplyDeleteI just LOVE the color combination! I also tend to turn to the black/orange/purple/green combo, I would have never thought to do something like this! And that traffic light costume is too cool! Awesome job, Mr. E! =)
ReplyDeleteI love it! Such a fresh, but festive, break from the standard Halloween colors.
ReplyDeleteI don't have any kids, but *I* am a flying squirrel this year.
There's just so much about this that I LOVE!
ReplyDeleteFirst of all~
Can you hear Doogan, Izzy and I up here in the Northwest? We are seriously squealing and doing a HAPPY KIDDO dance that Kiddo was featured on the Martha Stewart website! GET OUT!!!!!!!!! Totally awesome! How COOL~DUDE is Mr. E using his engineering skills to create a Halloween costume that freakin lights up!!!!!! How cool is it that the yellow sign goes out for candy! We can't take it!
Just too incredible!
Let's get to these cookies!
I'm in LOVE with these colors! You would think we were neighbors considering we think alike so much of the time!
How did you know I've been sewing bags with NAVY and PINK!!!!!!!!!! I mean seriously! There's a reason we're BESTIES!
Love these colors!
Preppy colors for Halloween = GENIUS!
Happy Halloween Week from Bainbridge Island!
xoxoxox
My 9 month old daughter will be Wonder Woman for her 1st halloween! :)
ReplyDeleteNow this is the kind of spider I like! SO pretty.
ReplyDeleteCute! I vote sparkle of course
ReplyDeleteIf I'm going to do spiders I want them to be pink. And sparkly ;)
ReplyDeleteYou are insanely talented! Sparkle all the way. And congrats on the stoplight making it onto Martha! Woo-hoo!
ReplyDeleteSo simple, yet beautiful!
ReplyDeleteThis is such a good tutorial, I think even I could make these! They are so cute!
ReplyDeleteThanks for a neat tutorial. Love the colors in the cookies and spider design makes it look so cute.
ReplyDeleteAmazing! I LOVE it. So creative and the colors work so well!
ReplyDeleteHis costume is so cute on him!! They do grow up so fast!
ReplyDeleteI love the colors you went with! and the disco dust makes them pop!
Oh, stop the bus! Those are just darling!!!
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This is really worth reading, it has too much details in it and yet it is so simple to understand
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Completely adorable. I love preppy spiders :)
ReplyDeleteI am loving that I discovered your blog. And I am loving that we are both Houston foodies. My son just turned 16. It's been several years since he has gone Trick or Treating...and yes I do miss it! But, handing out candy is fun too...we just make sure that make ourselves sick with our own stash as a special treat to ourselves since he doesn't trick or treat anymore. He misses it though!
ReplyDeleteOh, and I have the engineering husband over here too. I remember one Halloween he had the jigsaw power tools out so he could carve intricate pumpkin face designs with maximum efficiency! I. understand. Gotta love them.
ReplyDeleteI found this post via Pinterest. These are AWESOME!
ReplyDeleteSpiders that sparkle are a must :) wonderful post and happy halloween!
ReplyDeleteWow, those look amazing!
ReplyDeleteGreat job in decorating, and thank you for the instructions on how you did it!
These are so adorable! I don't have much cookie decorating experience, but I am going to try to channel your talents today and make your brown sugar and spice cookies, ice them and have my kiddos doodle on them with the food writing pens; a birthday gift for my husband!
ReplyDeleteI am hoping my kiddos love Halloween for years to come ( they're 5 & 3 so I hope that's realistic). I, too, have an engineer husband and he helped me make an iPad costume for our 5 year old. My daughter dressed like Princess Presto from Super Why. I can't wait to see what they pick next year!
Thank you for all of your incredible recipes/photos/tips!
These cookies are so beautiful. Love the sparkles!
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad that you mentioned about the icing drying darker. I would have probably had a melt down trying to get the icing that beautiful navy blue hue. I love these cookies with or without the sparkles!
ReplyDeleteLove the colors and the design! Your Kiddo is growing into quite a handsome young man!
ReplyDeleteTo Sparkle! There is no question! Those cookies are SO gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteAnd I have to agree - your son is a very handsome dude!
These are so awesome! Love the sparkles and the pink... I can get on board with those kind of Halloween decorations! :)
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These colours, these details, these wonderful shots! I love yout photography skills and I love these cookies!!!
ReplyDeleteThese are so adorable, I love the colors!! And I like the sparkly ones the best. :-)
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