Description
These Spooky Spider Cookies are perfect for Halloween. They're also delicious, soft, and chewy peanut butter cookies with chocolate spiders that are so much fun! These are easy to make and great for a Halloween Party Dessert or after-school snack!
Ingredients
Scale
Cookie Batter
- 3/4 cup unsalted butter, melted
- 1/3 cup smooth peanut butter
- 1 1/4 cup dark brown sugar
- 1/4 cup white granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 eggs
- 2 1/4 cup all purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
Spider Topping
- Malted Milk Balls
- 1/4 cup milk chocolate chips, melted
Instructions
- In a large mixing bowl, add the melted butter, peanut butter, brown sugar and white sugar. Whisk together until combined and smooth.
- Then add in the eggs and vanilla extract, whisking again until the ingredients are incorporated.
- Pour in the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Fold all these dry ingredients into the wet until a dough forms. The dough will not be that firm, due to the use of melted butter, but that is how it is supposed to be.
- Cover this bowl with plastic wrap or transfer to the plastic wrap, wrap and place in the refrigerator to chill for 30 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit and prepare a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Scoop out medium sized balls of cookie dough, roll in your hand to make it evenly round and place on the baking sheet about 2 inches apart from each other.
- Once all the cookie dough balls have been place, press them slightly with your fingertips before baking in the oven for 13 minutes or until the edges of the peanut butter cookies are slightly golden.
- As soon as you remove the cookies out of the oven, take the malted milk balls and place two in the center of each cookie side by side. This is to create the spider’s body.
- Let these cookies cool for 5 minutes.
- While those cool, melt the chocolate in the microwave at 30 second intervals, stirring in between, until smooth.
- Transfer this melted chocolate into a piping bag and cut a small slit at the end.
- Create spider 4 legs coming out from each malted ball with the piping bag. 2 on one side and 2 on the other, curving downwards.
- Repeat the legs on the other malted milk ball, curving the legs upward to finish the look of a spider.
- Serve and enjoy these cookies!
- Prep Time: 15
- Chill Time: 30
- Cook Time: 13
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
