13 Apr Peanut Butter Halloween Spider Cookies

Peanut Butter spider biscuits

(Makes approximately 24 biscuits)

These biscuits are totally delicious on their own, or you can make them into a seasonal Halloween treat by adding peanut butter cup ‘spiders’ on top.

115g room temperature butter
115g peanut butter
110g light soft brown sugar
100g caster sugar
1 egg
2 tbsp milk
1 tsp vanilla
225g plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt

3 tbsp of extra caster sugar to roll biscuits in

For decoration:

24 peanut butter cups
48 candy eyeballs or eyes made with chocolate chips
Chocolate buttercream or melted chocolate to pipe legs. 

Method:

• preheat oven to 170 degrees, line a baking sheet with baking parchment. 

• Cream together the butter, peanut butter, brown sugar, and caster sugar with an electric mixer in a large bowl until smooth. Beat egg into the creamed mixture until fully incorporated. Stir milk and vanilla extract into the mixture until smooth. 

• In a separate bowl mix flour, baking soda, and salt together. Add to the wet mixture in the large bowl and stir until completely incorporated into a dough. 

• Divide into 24 pieces and roll into balls. 

• Place the extra caster sugar in a shallow bowl. Roll dough balls in sugar to coat and arrange about 2 inches apart onto prepared baking sheets. 

• Bake in preheated oven until golden brown, for 12-15 minutes. 

• Remove cookies from oven and quickly press a dimple into the middle of each cookie using the end of a small rolling pin.

• Cool cookies on sheets for 10 minutes before transferring to a wire cooling rack to cool completely. 

• To decorate: stick a peanut butter cup on top of each cookie with some melted chocolate or buttercream to hold it in place. 

• Dab a small amount of buttercream or melted chocolate onto the back of each candy eyeball and stick two onto each peanut butter cup.

• Pipe melted chocolate or chocolate buttercream in four thin lines each side of the peanut butter cup to make the spiders legs. 

• Store in an airtight container

• ENJOY!! Happy Halloween