Tarantula Treats

Felipe the Skeleton, here. I want to share the recipe for one of the easiest and yet most delicious dessert snacks this side of the grave. The recipe makes a lot of creepy-crawly treats (about a dozen to sixteen) so save some for your friends, throw a Halloween party, or entomb the extras in the fridge until you’re ready for a delicious snack. Each batch of Tarantula Treats is crawling with flavor. Decorate the Tarantula Treats any way you’d like. Use white chocolate rounds to form eyes like I did, or make the Tarantula Treats into something even creepier with frosting. Just follow the 12 easy steps below and you’ll have yourself a dessert favorite to serve your friends in no time at all.

Ingredients

TOOLS NEEDED:

Wax Paper
2 Medium / Large Bowls
Spatula
Pot
Stove Top Burner

Tarantula Treats:

2 cups Chow Mein Noodles (Dry)
8 Oz milk-chocolate
1/2 cup peanuts
1/2 cup dried cranberries
1 candy bar of choice
White coated chocolate rounds (for eyes)

Directions

Make some Tarantula Treats by following these 10 easy steps.

Step 1:

Assemble all your ingredients.

Step 2:

Pour chow mein noodles into a medium or large bowl.

Step 3:

Add peanuts.

Step 4:

Add dried cranberries to your dry mix of peanuts and chow mein noodles.

Step 5:

Chop up your chocolate candy bar of choice into small pieces.

Step 6:

Add these small chucks of the candy bar to the dry mix of other ingredients .

Step 7:

Heat pot of water on medium heat.

Step 8:

Cut your eight ounces of milk chocolate into small slivers.

Step 9:

Add chocolate to bowl and put bowl over heated water. Be sure not to get any water in the chocolate as it will seize and be ruined. Also be careful not to burn chocolate by stirring continuously until melted and smooth .

Step 10:

Pour melted chocolate over dry ingredients and stir with spatula until well mixed.

Step 11:

Pinch with fingers and thumb of one hand a good sized helping of the mix and put on wax paper. Assemble legs to look more like an arachnid. Add chocolate hard shelled rounds for eyes if desired.

Step 12:

Enjoy!

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