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These spooky Spider Cookies make the perfect festive Halloween treat! Crunchy chocolate peanut butter spiders have attacked these soft and chewy sugar cookies – and they taste incredible!
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup peanut butter
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter-softened
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1/3 cup brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 large egg
- 1 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 12 Ferrero Rocher truffles (keep a few more if you need them)
- 3/4 cup semisweet chocolate chips
- 48 candy eyes
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F and line two baking sheets with parchment paper.
- In a bowl mix together flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt together, set aside.
- Beat both butter and peanut butter until fluffy, then add sugar and brown sugar and mix again until fluffy, mix in vanilla and egg.
- On a low speed mix dry ingredients in butter mixture.
- Roll 1 1/2 tablespoon cookie dough into balls( it should be 24 balls) and place 12 out on each cookie sheet.
- Bake cookies for 8- 10 minutes, then remove from the oven and using a pestle press a cavity in the middle of each cookie and place back in the oven and bake another 5-8 minutes, until golden( they will crack when you press them but that’s OK)
- Unwrap Ferrero Rocher chocolate truffles and carefully cut each in half.
- Melt chocolate chip, transfer to a zip bag and cut off a small corner to make a hole. Pipe 8 leg on each cookies and place halved truffle in cavity before the chocolate is harden.
- Use remaining melted chocolate to glue the eyes.