Halloween is around the corner, ya’ll.
And to kick-start this month of all things scary, we are planning on baking these very creepy (and totally cute) spider cookies that we found over on the delicious Mommymusings blog.
And when we tell you that a key ingredient in these cookies are Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, we kinda feel like you’ll want to make them too…
Ingredients
- ½ cup butter
- ½ cup peanut butter
- ½ cup brown sugar
- ½ cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 2 tbsp milk
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1¾ cup flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp salt
- ¼ cup sugar (for rolling)
- 48 miniature Reese’s cups, unwrapped and frozen
- 96 candy eyes
- ½ cup chocolate chips
Directions
- Preheat oven to 190c.
- In a large bowl, beat together butter, peanut butter, egg, sugar, brown sugar, vanilla and milk.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda and salt.
- Gradually add dry mixture to wet mixture and beat until blended.
- Form into 1″ balls.
- Roll in sugar and place a couple of inches apart on un-greased cookie sheet.
- Bake 10-12 minutes or until golden.
- Immediately, gently press an upside down frozen peanut butter cup on top of each cookie and move to wire rack to cool.
- After placing and moving all of the cookies on the wire rack. put in place the candy eyes while chocolate is still slightly soft.
- Place in refrigerator for 10 minutes to allow cookies to firm.
- Place chocolate chips in corner of zippered sandwich bag.
- Microwave for 20 seconds, knead and repeat until chocolate is melted.
- Clip very small piece off of corner of bag to allow for piping and draw 8 legs on each spider cookie.
- Place in refrigerator for 10 minutes to allow legs to set.
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