This recipe is from way back in my Girl Scout days – Crunchy Spider Legs.  I ran across a “recipe” for crunchy spider surprise in World of Warcraft (Alliance represent!) and laughed because I already know how to make crunchy spider legs.  Well, now you can too!  These are crunchy, sweet, a little salty, and strange but addictive.

For Easter you can call them Bird Nests and put a few peanut butter M&M’s on top to look like eggs sitting in a nest.    These would also be fun for a Halloween themed party, or a bug themed kids party.

These have happy memories for me.  I remember having these at a slumber party when I was probably about nine, and we stayed up for hours playing a game in which these were the reward (carpet lava and all that stuff kids do).  In college I took an English class that required us to do a presentation that involved demonstrating something, so I did a demo of this recipe in class.  I didn’t have a way to melt the chocolate in the classroom, but I brought a batch of finished ones with me and handed them out to everyone.  That was a hit!  This is when I learned the very important lesson that if you want someone to pay attention, bring food.

This is a great one for kids who are learning to cook as long as they have stove supervision.  It’s also good for learning patience, as it takes a couple of hours for them to set.  Making these got me off on a mental tangent of wondering how many others of the game recipes I could make in real life.  If you want them to be a little more “spidery” you could include mini marshmallows to be gooey spider bodies.  Mix them in at the very end, after the noodles, so they don’t melt.