Spider Cookies

Total Time Prep: 20 min. Bake: 15 min.
Yield 2 dozen
Test Kitchen Approved
The star of any Halloween party, this easy seven-ingredient recipe combines creamy peanut butter with rich chocolate to make some of the most adorable spider cookies you've ever seen!

Ingredients

  • 1 cup creamy peanut butter
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 large egg, room temperature
  • 24 Reese's mini peanut butter cups
  • 1/2 cup milk chocolate chips
  • 1 teaspoon shortening
  • 48 candy eyes

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 350°. Cream peanut butter and sugar until light and fluffy, 5-7 minutes. Beat in egg.
  2. Roll into 1-in. balls. Place 2 in. apart on ungreased baking sheets. Flatten slightly with the bottom of a glass. Bake until tops are slightly cracked, 15-17 minutes. Cool for 3 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks. Immediately press 1 mini peanut butter cup into center of each cookie. Let stand until set.
  3. In a microwave, melt chocolate chips and shortening; stir until smooth. Transfer melted chocolate mixture to a pastry bag fitted with a small round tip. Use mixture to adhere candy eyes to peanut butter cups with melted chocolate mixture. Pipe 8 lines alongside each peanut butter cup to resemble spider legs. Let stand until set.

Nutrition Facts

1 cookie: 138 calories, 8g fat (2g saturated fat), 9mg cholesterol, 60mg sodium, 15g carbohydrate (13g sugars, 1g fiber), 3g protein.

These cute spider cookies are so easy. They'll be the star at your next Halloween party! —Rashanda Cobbins, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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