These fun and silly Halloween Spider Cookies feature miniature Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups for a yummy cookie ready to be the star of any Halloween party!
When it comes to Halloween candy my number one favorite has been Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups ever since I was a little girl.
So, it’s not a far stretch to say that my favorite Halloween cookie recipe is now this Silly Halloween Spider Cookies Recipe because it features the Reese’s right on top!!
Not only are they made with my favorite Halloween candy, but they look super cute too!
Candy Eyes always have a way of giving treats an extra dose of personality!
Of course you can always make your eyes with white and chocolate frosting, but the candy eyeballs make it a lot easier and your spiders will turn out a bit more uniform.
These Halloween cookies are fun to make and much easier than they look. The eyes just pop right on and the legs are made by melting chocolate chips, putting that melted chocolate in a zip top baggy, cutting off the very tip of a corner and squeezing it on to make the legs.
Since spider webs are hairy, it doesn’t matter if you don’t make them perfectly or if your hand shakes a big. It looks like they’re supposed to be a little big squiggly.
These super fun cookies are so cute that they are sure to be a hit at any Halloween party!
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Silly Halloween Spider Cookies Recipe
INGREDIENTS:
1/2 cup Shortening
1/2 cup Peanut Butter
1/2 cup Brown Sugar
1/2 cup Sugar
1 Egg
2 tbsp Milk
1 tsp Vanilla
1 3/4 cup Flour
1 tsp Baking Soda
1/2 tsp Salt
1/4 cup Sugar (For rolling)
48 miniature Reese’s cups, unwrapped and frozen
96 Candy Eyes
1/2 cup Chocolate Chips
How to Make Spider Cookies:
Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
In a large bowl, beat together shortening, peanut butter, egg, sugar, brown sugar, vanilla and milk.
In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda and salt.
Gradually add dry mixture to wet mixture and beat until blended.
Form dough into 1″ balls.
Roll each ball in sugar and place a couple of inches apart on an ungreased baking sheet.
Bake 10-12 minutes or until golden.
Immediately, gently press an upside down frozen peanut butter cupon top of each cookie and move to wire rack to cool.
After placing and moving all of the cookies on the wire rack. put in place the candy eyes while chocolate is still slightly soft.
Place in refrigerator for 10 minutes to allow cookies to firm.
Place chocolate chips in the corner of a zip-top sandwich bag.
Microwave for 20 seconds, knead and repeat until chocolate is melted.
Clip very small piece off of corner of bag to allow for piping and draw 8 legs on each spider cookie.
Place in refrigerator for 10 minutes to allow legs to set.
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For another fun Halloween spider recipe, you can make these easy Spider Donuts. Find more Halloween Treat Recipes HERE!
Silly Halloween Spider Cookies
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup Shortening
- 1/2 cup Peanut Butter
- 1/2 cup Brown Sugar
- 1/2 cup Sugar
- 1 Egg
- 2 tbsp Milk
- 1 tsp Vanilla
- 1 3/4 cup Flour
- 1 tsp Baking Soda
- 1/2 tsp Salt
- 1/4 cup Sugar For rolling
- 48 miniature Reese’s cups unwrapped and frozen
- 96 Candy Eyes
- 1/2 cup Chocolate Chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375.
- In a large bowl, beat together shortening, peanut butter, egg, sugar, brown sugar, vanilla and milk.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda and salt.
- Gradually add dry mixture to wet mixture and beat until blended.
- Form dough into 1 inch balls.
- Roll each ball in sugar and place a couple of inches apart on an ungreased baking sheet.
- Bake 10-12 minutes or until golden.
- Immediately, gently press an upside down frozen peanut butter cup on top of each cookie and move to wire rack to cool.
- After placing and moving all of the cookies on the wire rack. put in place the candy eyes while chocolate is still slightly soft.
- Place in refrigerator for 10 minutes to allow cookies to firm.
- Place chocolate chips in the corner of a zip-top sandwich bag.
- Microwave for 20 seconds, knead and repeat until chocolate is melted.
- Clip very small piece off of corner of bag to allow for piping and draw 8 legs on each spider cookie.
- Place in refrigerator for 10 minutes to allow legs to set.
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Dana Rodriguez says
This is such a cute idea! I think I am going to make these for our Halloween party!
Sherri says
Those are adorable! I wish I was creative enough to come up with things like this
justin tan says
This is so cute. Can’t wait to make for the coming Halloween party
Michele Pineda says
with Halloween coming right up, I can’t wait to try these out…just pinned the recipe so I will be ready to make them for the grandsons!
Sarah L says
They make me smile. And have good flavors, too.
Jan says
Can you sub butter for shortening?
Chrysa says
You can, but the cookies will likely spread out more so you’ll have “flatter” faces. (We haven’t tried them with butter.)
Kimberly Flickinger says
These are so cute and look delicious! Thank you for sharing!
Kristie says
Those look so cute!! And easy too! Thanks for sharing! kristiedonelson(at)gmail(dot)com Thank you.
Brigitte says
Made these last Halloween and got lots of compliments!! I will be making them again.
G K says
These are cute! They also use my favorite candy.
Claudia Lamascolo says
what an adorable idea and my grandson is obsessed with spiders! I love this idea and cant wait to make these with him!
Jen says
I followed the directions however the inside of my cookies look uncooked. Any ideas as to why the outside is cooked and the inside is doughy?
Athena Gaskins says
Can you make a different type of cookie for these?
Chrysa says
You could, but the peanut butter cookies blend well with the peanut butter cups.
Lisa says
I’ve used Lindt balls before and I’m also gonna try the rolo candy this year
Lucy says
Keep the peanut butter cups in the freezer between batches, or they will melt and slide off the 2nd batch of cookies. Easy to make and delicious!
Lisa says
I’ve made these before and they’re a big hit but I was wondering do you think I can do a sugar cookie (just because of people at my work place that have nut allergies) or what cookie would you suggest? Thanks!