Peanut Butter Spider Cookies
Peanut Butter Spider Cookies are a homemade peanut butter cookie that is topped with chocolate and a mini Reese's peanut butter cup and decorated to look like a spider. The perfect fall or Halloween cookie to serve up.
Servings 33 cookies
Ingredients
- 2 cups of flour spooned and leveled
- 1 teaspoon of baking soda
- ½ teaspoon of salt
- ½ cup of butter softened
- ½ cup of shortening and 1 tablespoon
- 1 cup of packed brown sugar
- 1/2 cup of granulated sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoons of vanilla
- 2 Tablespoons of milk
- 1 cup of peanut butter creamy
- 33-36 Mini Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup
- 3 oz of melting chocolate
- Candy Eyes
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat.
- In a medium bowl add your flour, baking soda and salt. Mix and set aside.
- Then using a stand mixer or hand mixer add your butter, shortening, brown sugar, and granulated sugar. Cream for 2-3 minutes on medium speed.
- Add in the egg, vanilla, and peanut butter. Mix and make sure to scrape down the sides.
- Slowly work in the dry ingredients.
- Use a 1-inch cookie scoop and make cookie dough balls on baking sheet, leaving 2 inches apart.
- Bake for 7 minutes, then remove from teh oven. Place the peanut butter cup at the top of the cookie. Then bake another 5 minutes.
- Melt chocolate while the cookies are finishing baking.
- Once cookies are done place on a cooling rack. Then place the candy eyes on the melted Reese's cup.
- Then put chocolate in a piping bag and draw an oval shape for the body. Then make 4 legs on each side of cookie for legs.