These peanut butter celery spiders turn crisp celery sticks into Halloween snacks. Fill the sticks with prepared peanut butter, then add cold chocolate bodies and pipe the legs with melted chocolate.
Start with finished properly prepared fermented peanut butter and honey-sweetened cocoa-butter chocolate chunks. With those ready, allow about ten minutes for assembling and decorating.
Where These Spiders Fit on GAPS
Keep this for occasional Later Full GAPS after digestive symptoms are gone. Use it after raw celery, properly prepared peanuts and cultured whey, and all chocolate ingredients have been introduced and tolerated. This is not an Introduction Diet or early Full GAPS recipe.
The linked peanut butter contains peanuts and cultured whey from fermented dairy. Keep those ingredients in mind when choosing this version.
Prepare the Celery
Wash and trim the celery, dry it and cut it into manageable sticks. Cut before filling and decorating so the chocolate spiders stay intact.
Plan on four snack servings from eight celery ribs. The number of decorated sticks depends on how you cut the ribs.
Spread and Divide the Chocolate
Use the measured eight tablespoons of prepared peanut butter across the prepared celery sticks. If the chilled peanut butter is too firm to spread, let it soften briefly while you prepare the celery.
Cut the cold chocolate into small irregular pieces before measuring the half cup. Divide that amount equally between two dry bowls. One portion stays cold for the bodies, and the other is melted for the legs.
Melt and Decorate
Warm the melting portion gently in a dry double-boiler insert or securely fitting heatproof bowl above simmering water. The bowl stays above the water. Stir until smooth and take it off the heat, keeping water out of the chocolate.
Set three small pieces of the reserved cold chocolate along each filled celery stick as spider bodies. Spoon the melted portion into a small piping bag with a fine opening and pipe legs around the bodies. Keep the lines small enough that the spiders are separate from each other.
If the chocolate begins firming while you decorate, warm it gently again until it flows. Serve the celery sticks fresh.
Recommended Equipment
Use a cutting board and small knife, measuring cups and spoons, a small saucepan with a securely fitting dry insert or heatproof bowl, a spoon, a small food-safe piping bag and a serving plate. The spread and chocolate are already made, so you do not need their processing equipment running for this assembly.
Serving and Storage
Prepare the base close to serving, then add the spread, bodies and legs. Cover and refrigerate any leftovers promptly. Store extra spread and chocolate separately, using their existing storage instructions; assembling a snack does not give the components a new storage life.
Frequently Asked Questions
When Do I Cut the Base?
Cut it before spreading and decorating. That keeps a knife from breaking the finished chocolate legs.
Do I Melt All the Chocolate?
Keep half of the measured chocolate cold for the bodies and melt the other half for the legs.
How Many Pieces Will I Make?
Plan on four snack servings from eight celery ribs. The number of decorated sticks depends on how you cut the ribs.
Peanut Butter Spider Celery Logs for Later Full GAPS Recipe
Peanut Butter Spider Celery Logs for Later Full GAPS
Ingredients
Equipment
Method
- Have both linked components ready before beginning. Make sure the spread is soft enough to spread. Cut the cold chocolate into small irregular pieces, measure it and divide it equally. Keep one half cold for the bodies.
- Wash and trim the celery, dry it and cut it into manageable sticks. Cut before filling and decorating so the chocolate spiders stay intact.
- Distribute the measured prepared peanut butter over the celery sticks. Keep a little space around the chocolate bodies for their legs.
- Put the other half of the chocolate in a clean, dry double-boiler insert or securely fitting heatproof bowl over a saucepan of gently simmering water. Keep the bowl above the water and keep water out of the chocolate. Stir over gentle heat until smooth, then remove from the heat.
- Set three small pieces of the reserved cold chocolate along each filled celery stick as spider bodies.
- Transfer the melted chocolate to a small piping bag with a fine opening. Pipe little legs around each body. If the chocolate begins firming before you finish, warm it gently again until it flows; keep water out.
- Serve the decorated celery sticks fresh. Cover and refrigerate any leftovers promptly; keep extra spread and chocolate separately and follow their own storage directions.
Notes
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Let us know how it was!Other Halloween Recipes
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- Halloween Chili With Homemade Sausage Toes brings a gruesome main dish to the table.
Other Variations
The related spider snacks use the source’s celery, apple, peanut-butter and sunflower-butter options.
- Sunflower Butter Spider Celery Logs for Later Full GAPS
- Peanut Butter Apple Spider Bites for Later Full GAPS
- Sunflower Butter Apple Spider Bites for Later Full GAPS
Recipe Source
Adapted from Spiders on a Log at Super Healthy Kids, including its celery and peanut-butter options. The linked WFLI components supply the prepared spread and homemade chocolate.
Keep Halloween Ideas Handy
See the Halloween on GAPS Cookbook listing and other current resources in the WFLI shop.
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