Chocolate Spiders - cooking recipe

Ingredients

200 g dark chocolate, chopped
100 g brown sugar
1 tsp vanilla essence
75 g butter, softened
250 g plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
100 g hazelnuts, chopped
75 g mikado sticks
100 g icing sugar
44 None coloured sugar beads

Preparation

Preheat oven to 325\u00b0F. Melt half of the chocolate in a bowl over a pan of steaming water. In a separate bowl, cream together the sugar, vanilla extract and butter. Stir in the flour and baking powder then fold in the melted chocolate, chopped chocolate and hazelnuts.
Place 22 dollops of the cake mix on a lined baking tray, stick 4 lollipop sticks in each side and bake for 15-18 minutes; this may have to be done in batches. Allow to cool on a wire rack.
Mix the powdered sugar with 1 tbsp water until smooth, pour into a piping bag and pipe on eyes and any other decoration you choose. Use the sugar pearls to give the eyes color.