Description
These Peanut Butter Spider Cookies are a fun and spooky treat perfect for Halloween or any festive occasion. Made with peanut butter cookies topped with mini Reese’s peanut butter cups and decorated with melted chocolate to create spider legs, they are both delicious and adorable. Optional mini candy eyeballs add an extra creepy-cute touch. Quick to assemble and no baking required if using store-bought cookies, these cookies are sure to delight kids and adults alike.
Ingredients
Scale
Base Cookies
- 12 peanut butter cookies (store-bought or homemade)
Toppings
- 12 mini Reese’s peanut butter cups
- 1/4 cup semi-sweet chocolate, melted
- Optional: 24 mini candy eyeballs
Instructions
- Melt Chocolate: Gently melt the semi-sweet chocolate in a double boiler or microwave, stirring every 30 seconds until smooth and fully melted. Transfer the melted chocolate into a piping bag or a Ziploc bag and snip a tiny hole at the end for precise piping.
- Assemble Spiders: Place a small dollop of melted chocolate in the center of each peanut butter cookie as glue. Press a mini Reese’s peanut butter cup firmly on top of each chocolate spot to create the spider’s body.
- Pipe Legs: Using the piping bag filled with melted chocolate, pipe eight spider legs per cookie—four on each side—extending outwards from the peanut butter cup to resemble spider legs.
- Add Eyes (Optional): Dab a small amount of melted chocolate on the front of each mini peanut butter cup and affix two mini candy eyeballs on top to give your spiders creepy eyes.
- Storage: Allow the chocolate to set completely at room temperature. Store the finished peanut butter spider cookies at room temperature for 5-6 days or freeze them for up to 2 months.
Notes
- For best results, use fresh peanut butter cookies that are firm enough to support the Reese’s peanut butter cups.
- If you don’t have a piping bag, a Ziploc bag with a small corner snipped off works perfectly for piping the legs.
- To speed up chocolate setting, you can refrigerate the cookies briefly after assembling.
- If you prefer less sweetness, use dark chocolate instead of semi-sweet.
- These cookies are great for Halloween parties, school events, or as a fun family baking project.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cookie
- Calories: 180
- Sugar: 14g
- Sodium: 150mg
- Fat: 10g
- Saturated Fat: 4g
- Unsaturated Fat: 5g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 19g
- Fiber: 1g
- Protein: 4g
- Cholesterol: 10mg
