SKIPPY® Peanut Butter Spider Cookies
Get into the spooky spirit with these SKIPPY® Peanut Butter Spider Cookies. These delightful treats feature a soft peanut butter cookie base topped with a chocolate peanut butter cup, transformed into creepy-crawly spiders with melted chocolate legs and candy eyes. Perfect for Halloween parties, these cookies are as fun to make as they are to eat!
Get into the spooky spirit with these SKIPPY® Peanut Butter Spider Cookies. These delightful treats feature a soft peanut butter cookie base topped with a chocolate peanut butter cup, transformed into creepy-crawly spiders with melted chocolate legs and candy eyes. Perfect for Halloween parties, these cookies are as fun to make as they are to eat!
2 1/2 dozen cookies
10 minutes
50 minutes
1 hour
Ingredients
- 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 cup SKIPPY® Creamy Peanut Butter
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Sugar for rolling
- 30 milk chocolate and peanut butter miniature cups, unwrapped
- 1 cup milk chocolate flavored melting wafers, melted according to package directions
- Candy eyes
Directions
- Heat oven to 350°F. In bowl, combine flour and baking soda.
- In large bowl, beat together peanut butter and butter until smooth. Beat in sugars, egg and vanilla until blended. Stir in flour mixture until blended. Shape dough into 30 balls.
- Place sugar for rolling in small bowl. Roll dough balls in sugar and place 2-inches apart on parchment lined cookie sheets.
- Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until edges are light brown. Immediately press one chocolate peanut butter cup in center of cookie. Remove to wire rack. Cool completely.
- Spoon melted wafers into a pastry bag fitted with small tip, or into small resealable freezer plastic bag; cut small tip from one corner of bag. Pipe 8 lines for spider legs around peanut butter cup; pipe 2 small dabs on chocolate peanut butter cup and attach 2 eyeballs. Repeat decorating steps with remaining cookies.