Sweet Spider Cookies

SWEET SPIDER COOKIES
1 c. creamy peanut butter
½ c. Crisco
¼ c. butter, softened
½ c. sugar
½ c. packed light brown sugar
1 egg
1 t. vanilla
2 c. flour
1 t. baking soda
½ t. salt
20 miniature peanut butter cups
20 chocolate covered peanuts or raisins
Black or brown gel icing

1. Preheat oven 350.
2. Beat together peanut butter, Crisco, butter, both sugars in large bowl with electric mixer for 5 minutes, until fluffy and combined.
3. Add the egg and vanilla and beat until combined.
4. Whisk together flour, baking soda and salt in separate bowl.
5. With mixer on low speed, add flour mixture to peanut butter mixture and beat until well mixed.
6. Scoop dough into 20 even portions (about 2 T. each) and roll into balls.
7. Flatten slightly and arrange the cookies 2” apart on parchment paper-lined baking sheets.
8. Press center of each cookie with your thumb.
9. Bake 8-10 minutes, rotating the cookie sheets halfway through.
10. When you pull cookies out of oven, gently place 1 Peanut Butter cup just barely below center of each cooking, allowing the warm cookie to melt in place.
11. Then gently press 1 chocolate covered peanut or raisin right above the PB cup on each cookie.
12. Allow cookies to cool for 5 minutes. Transfer to wire rack to cool completely.
13. Once cool, use gel writing icing to draw 8 legs from body of each spider. Allow to cool!