Silly Halloween Spider Cookies
This fun and silly Halloween Spider Cookies Recipe features miniature Reese's Peanut Butter Cups for a yummy cookie ready to be the star of any Halloween party!
Servings: 48 Cookies
Calories: 120kcal
Ingredients
- ½ cup Shortening
- ½ cup Peanut Butter
- ½ cup Brown Sugar
- ½ cup Sugar
- 1 Egg
- 2 tablespoon Milk
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla
- 1 ¾ cup Flour
- 1 teaspoon Baking Soda
- ½ teaspoon Salt
- ¼ cup Sugar For rolling
- 48 miniature Reese's cups unwrapped and frozen
- 96 Candy Eyes
- ½ 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.
Notes
- The peanut butter cookies expand so, make sure to place them a couple inches apart on the cookie sheet.
- You want to cool the cookies before decorating the chocolate legs so that the chocolate peanut butter cup doesn't melt fully and so the chocolate hardens as you pipe it on.
- When piping on the legs keep the hole you cut in the plastic baggie pretty small! The thicker the legs the more chance they'll blend together on the cookie.
- You can make your spider eyes with white and chocolate frosting. However, candy eyes make it much easier.
- Store the cookies in the fridge in an airtight container. When ready o serve, let them come to room temperature.
Nutrition
Serving: 1g | Calories: 120kcal | Carbohydrates: 15g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 6g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 3g | Trans Fat: 0.3g | Cholesterol: 4mg | Sodium: 86mg | Potassium: 55mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 10g | Vitamin A: 10IU | Vitamin C: 0.02mg | Calcium: 12mg | Iron: 0.4mg
