Spooky Peanut Butter Spider Cookies
SPOOKY PEANUT BUTTER SPIDER COOKIES
2 ½ c. flour
½ t. salt
¼ t. baking soda
1 ½ c. granulated sugar
1 c. creamy peanut butter
1 c. brown sugar
½ c. butter, room temp
2 T. vegetable oil
1 egg
1 t. vanilla
2 c. milk chocolate chips
36 small peanut butter cups, unwrapped
72 candy eyes
- Preheat oven 350.
- In bowl, whisk together flour, salt and baking soda.
- In the bowl of a standing mixer fitted with paddle, beat ½ c. granulated sugar, peanut butter, brown sugar, butter and oil until light and fluffy.
- Add egg and vanilla and beat until combined.
- Add flour mixture and mix until dough starts to come away from bowl.
- Scoop portions of dough to make each cookie onto parchment paper-lined baking sheet and refrigerate for 1 hour or overnight.
- Roll the cookies in the remaining 1 c. sugar to coat, then place them onto a parchment paper lined baking sheet about 1” apart.
- Bake 8-10 minutes, remove from own and carefully place your thumb in center of each cookies.
- Return the baking sheet back into oven and bake until cookies are still soft to the touch and just a little golden, 2-4 minutes. Do not overbake. Cool completely.
- Melt the milk chocolate chips in microwave and then place in a small pastry bag fitted with number 2 round pastry tip.
- Place the peanut butter cups upside-down into the indent of each cookie to create the spider bodies.
- Pipe a dot of chocolate onto the back of each candy eye and place in the center of the peanut butter cup right next to each other. Pipe 4 chocolate legs on each side of body.
- Use the tip of a toothpick to smooth out the legs of the spiders.
- Let spiders set for 5 minutes. Serve.