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Spooky Halloween Chocolate Bugs

Published: Oct 25, 2012 | 3 Comments

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Use melted dark chocolate to make spooky Halloween chocolate bugs, snakes, spiders, worms. The only ingredient you need for this recipe is dark chocolate! You can then use these chocolate bugs as decoration on Halloween pastries and desserts.

chocolate bugs

For this Halloween, I didn’t want to make any disgusting looking desserts (such as bleeding eyeballs or intestines), just something spooky and easy. So, my solution was to decorate all of my MANY-MANY Fall-themed desserts (that I don’t seem to be able to stop baking) with spooky bugs made out of chocolate.

As a result, for the past week, all I seem to be doing (in addition to working and baking) is making spiders, worms, snakes and molding shapes of other bugs out of melted chocolate. While it didn’t surprise me that spooky Halloween chocolate bugs will be a welcome Halloween treat for kids, adults around me seem to be equally spooked by these little chocolate creatures on top of pumpkin pies, cheesecakes, or tarts. The photo below is one example on how I arranged chocolate spiders on a pumpkin puff pastry rustic tart:

Halloween chocolate bugs, easy spooky treats, how to make chocolate bugs


What do you need to make spooky Halloween chocolate bugs, spiders, warms, and snakes?

Only 1/2 cup of semi-sweet dark chocolate chips or 1 dark chocolate bar

Here are the instructions on how to melt the chocolate and make chocolate bugs:

1) Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.

2) Place 1/2 cup of semi-sweet chocolate chips (or 1 dark chocolate bar) in a pan over medium heat and melt.

chocolate

3) Carefully pour melted chocolate into a plastic freezer bag. Cut a small hole at the end of the bag. I recommend using 2 bags: one with the smaller hole, another – with the bigger hole. Use the bag with the bigger hole to draw bigger bugs, and the bag with the smaller hole – for smaller bugs. It is also easier to use the bag with the bigger whole to draw the bodies of bugs, and the bag with smaller hole – to draw legs, tails, etc.

4) Draw bugs, snakes, worms, anything you like – on parchment paper. You can even add little eyes by using cake decorations. It’s surprisingly easy to draw chocolate bugs even if you’ve never done it before. The shapes are pretty basic. Just draw a bulky body, then legs coming from both sides.

chocolate bugs

5) Place the baking sheet with chocolate bugs in the freezer for at least 40 minutes or longer (until you are ready to use the bugs).

chocolate spiders

CREEPY, CREEPY, CREEPY!!!  Use these chocolate bugs on Halloween pastries and desserts.

chocolate bugs

Spooky Halloween Chocolate Bugs
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Spooky Halloween Chocolate Bugs
Prep Time
10 mins
Cook Time
20 mins
Total Time
30 mins
 

Use melted dark chocolate to make spooky Halloween chocolate bugs, snakes, spiders, worms.  The only ingredient you need for this recipe is dark chocolate!  You can then use these chocolate bugs as decoration on Halloween pastries and desserts. 

Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Servings: 12 chocolate bugs
Calories: 43 kcal
Author: Julia
Ingredients
  • 1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips dark, or 1 dark chocolate bar
Instructions
  1. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.

  2. Place 1/2 cup of semi-sweet chocolate chips (or 1 dark chocolate bar) in a pan over medium heat and melt.

  3. Carefully pour melted chocolate into a plastic freezer bag. Cut a small hole at the end of the bag. I recommend using 2 bags: one with the smaller hole, another – with the bigger hole. Use the bag with the bigger hole to draw bigger bugs, and the bag with the smaller hole – for smaller bugs. It is also easier to use the bag with the bigger whole to draw the bodies of bugs, and the bag with smaller hole – to draw legs, tails, etc.

  4. Draw bugs, snakes, worms, anything you like – on parchment paper. You can even add little eyes by using cake decorations. It’s surprisingly easy to draw chocolate bugs even if you’ve never done it before. The shapes are pretty basic. Just draw a bulky body, then legs.

  5. Place baking sheet with chocolate bugs in the freezer for at least 40 minutes or longer (until you are ready to use the bugs).

Nutrition Facts
Spooky Halloween Chocolate Bugs
Amount Per Serving
Calories 43 Calories from Fat 18
% Daily Value*
Fat 2g3%
Saturated Fat 1g6%
Potassium 42mg1%
Carbohydrates 3g1%
Sugar 2g2%
Calcium 5mg1%
Iron 0.5mg3%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

Use chocolate bugs to top these Halloween desserts:

  • Cinnamon apple puff pastry turnovers
  • Halloween Mummy Pastries with Apples and Pears
  • Pumpkin Puff Pastry Tart with Apple-Cranberry Stuffed Crust

Filed Under: Chocolate, Dessert, Halloween, Recipe Published: Oct 25, 2012 3 Comments

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  1. Nicole @ The Marvelous Misadventures of a Foodie

    Oct 26, 2012 at 8:35 am

    These are so cute Julia – what a fun idea! You make pretty good free-hand chocolate bugs 🙂 I don’t think mine would come out quite so adorable or shall I say creepy 😉

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    • Julia

      Oct 29, 2012 at 12:52 pm

      Thank you! These are really easy to make.

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