Chocolate-Cookie Spiders

• 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 6 tablespoons unsweetened Dutch process cocoa powder, sifted
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 10 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 large egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 cup chocolate sprinkles
• 36 mini M&M's or red hots
• 72 mini pretzel sticks, about 4 inches long, each snapped in half

1. Preheat oven to 350u0b0F. Line two baking sheets with parchment. Whisk together flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt.
2. Cream butter and sugar with an electric mixer until fluffy, 2 to 3 minutes. Beat in egg and vanilla until smooth. Beat in flour mixture.
3. Roll a teaspoonful of dough between your palms, then roll ball in sprinkles. Repeat with remaining dough and sprinkles. Place 9 balls on each baking sheet, pressing lightly to flatten just a bit. Place two mini M&M's or red hots on one end of each ball. Insert 4 pretzel stick halves into each side of each ball.
4. Bake one sheet of cookies until dry on top, 12 minutes. Let cool on sheet on wire rack. Repeat with remaining sheet.

flour, dutch, baking soda, salt, unsalted butter, sugar, egg, vanilla, chocolate sprinkles, hots

Taken from www.myrecipes.com/recipe/chocolate-cookie-spiders (may not work)