Edible Halloween Spiders

Beat ingredients together until peaks firmly hold their shape, and the more you beat it, the firmer it gets.

Use a decorating tube to pipe the icing into spider shapes on waxed paper.

cook's notes

I only made a third of this recipe and I still had tons of icing left over after making two dozen spiders. I used black paste food coloring to get it as dark as I could.

These are very fragile, but enough stayed intact to give the desired effect...I used a decorating tube to pipe the icing into spider shapes on waxed paper. They are made from Royal Icing, which needs to be used right away since it hardens to a rocklike texture very quickly!