Want to be the coolest Mom on the block? Check out these creepy crawly Peanut Butter Spider Cookies for some awesome Halloween fun! They are perfect for Halloween parties at home and school, plus the kiddos will love them! Not only do they look super cute and fun, they also taste delicious! Who can resist chocolate and peanut butter?! And if you love serving up fun treats, check out these easy Spider Cupcakes! You will have an invasion of creepy crawly critters! Or, want to have a little “BOO” fun? Check out these fun Nutty Butter Ghost Cookies!
Peanut Butter Spider Cookies Recipe
Ingredients:
1 ¾ cups all purpose flour
½ cup sugar
½ cup firmly packed brown sugar
1 teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
½ cup shortening
½ cup peanut butter
2 tablespoons milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 egg
Sugar
Bag of chocolate truffles (I used Lindt Milk Chocolate)
Betty Crocker Chocolate Cupcake Icing
Small candy eyes
Instructions:
Preheat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit.
In a large bowl, combine flour, sugar, brown sugar, baking soda, salt, shortening, peanut butter, milk, vanilla and egg. Mix well.
Roll pieces of dough into 1 inch balls.
In a shallow bowl, add sugar and roll the cookie dough to coat the cookie.
Place on a cookie sheet and bake 10-12 minutes.
Remove from oven when cookies are golden brown.
Let the cookies cool for just a few minutes.
Press a chocolate truffle in the center of each cookie so it has a small ‘crater’ in the center. I used one truffle and made a quick ‘crater’ in each cookie and let the cookies cool for a few more minutes. If you add your truffle too soon, the chocolate will melt! (If you waited too long and the truffle isn’t staying just add a drop of icing to the bottom and it will stay in place!)
After the truffles are placed in the center, use icing to draw the spider’s legs around the cookie.
Add a drop of icing on the back of two candy eyes and add to the spider truffle center.
Enjoy!
Print this recipe:
- 1 ¾ cups all purpose flour
- ½ cup sugar
- ½ cup firmly packed brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup shortening
- ½ cup peanut butter
- 2 tablespoons milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 egg
- Sugar
- Bag of chocolate truffles (I used Lindt Milk Chocolate)
- Betty Crocker Chocolate Cupcake Icing
- Small candy eyes
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit.
- In a large bowl, combine flour, sugar, brown sugar, baking soda, salt, shortening, peanut butter, milk, vanilla and egg. Mix well.
- Roll pieces of dough into 1 inch balls.
- In a shallow bowl, add sugar and roll the cookie dough to coat the cookie.
- Place on a cookie sheet and bake 10-12 minutes.
- Remove from oven when cookies are golden brown.
- Let the cookies cool for just a few minutes.
- Press a chocolate truffle in the center of each cookie so it has a small ‘crater’ in the center. I used one truffle and made a quick ‘crater’ in each cookie and let the cookies cool for a few more minutes. If you add your truffle too soon, the chocolate will melt! (If you waited too long and the truffle isn’t staying just add a drop of icing to the bottom and it will stay in place!)
- After the truffles are placed in the center, use icing to draw the spider’s legs around the cookie.
- Add a drop of icing on the back of two candy eyes and add to the spider truffle center.
- Enjoy!
My girlies love spiders so these are right up their alley! <3 it!
Too cute!!! Thanks for sharing. My grandgirls will love this!
FABBY
Too cute!! Definitely going to make these!
So cute and spooky! Great treat for a Halloween party
These are super cute!! And Yummy too!! Great Halloween treat for a party!! I would love for you to stop by and Join my Link Party – My 2 Favorite Things on Thursday!! It’s going on now until Monday. I would love to have you and I pin everything! Have a great week!!
What a perfect Halloween snack for my kiddos! They will love these. Thank you for sharing!
woow. that`s cute
really nice job..
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Diane, these spider cookies look Delish and my kids really want me to make them:). I am featuring them tonight @ Dream. Create. Inspire. Link. Thanks so much for sharing your recipe and I hope you will stop by again tonight @ 8 EST. Take care, Tara
I’m dropping by from the Dream Create Inspire link party. These cookies are so clever — and look so easy to make. I’ve pinned them so that I can make them for my Halloween party with my grandkids.
I have a link party that I’m trying to grow. It is Grandma Ideas Sharing Time at http://grandmaideas.com. I invite you to share this idea (and a couple of others) because I know that my readers will enjoy this idea as much as I do!
My link party runs from Wednesday at 1:00 a.m. through Friday night at midnight Mountain Daylight time in the U.S. I hope you can make it.
All the best,
Nina
These are just adorable! I’ll have to make these for the family to snack on while we watch scary movies this Halloween. They will definitely be a big hit!
what a fantastic idea I find them a little spooky and cute too must try thanks for the recipe and adorable pics