Spider Sandwiches in your child’s lunch box will make you the coolest mom in the classroom. When your child opens up their lunchbox and sees this surprise they will be delighted. They are super easy to make and so cute!
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These spider sandwiches are so quick and easy. They use supplies that you already have on hand and are great for school, parties, cub scouts or just a great after school snack.
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- 5 Minutes: So easy and quick.
- Easy Ingredients: Made with your normal sandwich ingredients.
- Family Friendly: They are fun but not too scary.
- Adaptable: Can make it with different nut butters and breads to make it adaptable to your families needs.
What You Need to Make These
Ingredients
- sandwich bread
- peanut butter
- jelly
- pretzel sticks
- mini chocolate morsels
Equipment
How to Make These Halloween Sandwiches – Step by Step
- Cut: First, use a round cookie cutter (or drinking glass) to cut 2 circles out of the slice of bread. Depending on the size of your cookie cutter, you may need to use 2 slices of bread.
- Make Sandwich: Second,spread peanut butter on one circle and spread jelly on the other circle; put circled together to form a sandwich.
- Legs: Next, break pretzel sticks in half and stick them in between the bread slices.
- Eyes: Finally, place chocolate morsels on top to look like eyes.
Common Questions
Indeed, any nut butter would be great in this recipe.
Of course, any type of bread including gluten free can be used.
Certainly, prepare just like any other sandwich and store in an airtight container until ready to serve.
Other Halloween treats, for example:
>Mummy Donut Bites
>Monster Cheese Snacks
>Apple Monster Halloween Snacks
Expert Tips for Making Spider Sandwiches
- Candy Eyes: A cool candy eye can be used for these Halloween sandwiches.
- Variation tip: Feel free to use carrot sticks instead of pretzels.
- Alternate ingredient: Use cream cheese or marshmallow fluff in your sandwich.
- Tongue : Make a tongue out of fruit leather and have it sticking out for a fun twist.
- Dietary consideration tip: Low sugar or no sugar fruit spreads can be used for theses spider sandwiches.
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Spider Sandwiches
Equipment
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Ingredients
- 1 slice sandwich bread
- 1 tablespoon peanut butter
- 1 tablespoon jelly
- 4 pretzel sticks
- 2 mini chocolate morsels
Instructions
- Use a round cookie cutter (or drinking glass) to cut 2 circles out of the slice of bread. Depending on the size of your cookie cutter, you may need to use 2 slices of bread.
- Spread peanut butter on one circle and spread jelly on the other circle; put circled together to form a sandwich.
- Break pretzel sticks in half and stick them in between the bread slices.
- Place chocolate morsels on top to look like eyes.
Christina’s Notes
- Candy Eyes: A cool candy eye can be used.
- Variation tip: Feel free to use carrot sticks instead of pretzels.
- Alternate ingredient: Use cream cheese or marshmallow fluff in your sandwich.
- Tongue : Make a tongue out of fruit leather and have it sticking out for a fun twist.
- Dietary consideration tip: Low sugar or no sugar fruit spreads can be used.
- Scale the recipe: Simply adjust the serving size in the recipe card and the ingredients will update automatically.
- Make your own All Purpose Seasoning: When a recipe calls for All Purpose Seasoning, you can use my homemade All Purpose Seasoning recipe or substitute salt and pepper to taste.
- Meat doneness: I always use a meat thermometer to test for doneness when cooking meat.
- Use unsalted butter: I use unsalted butter so I can control the salt level in the recipe.
- Preheat the oven: Unless otherwise noted, always preheat your oven before baking.
For more helpful information about this recipe, such as variations, substitutions and other pro-tips, check out the blog post.
Nutrition
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This looks like a lot of fun to make with the kids. I pinned it so we can try these cute spider sandwiches later…