These spooky spider cookies are a must make this Halloween season. They are a peanut butter cookie that is then decorated with melted chocolate and candy Whoopers. A simple and easy Halloween cookie recipe.
Kids love the idea of eating these spider decorated cookies. They are so tasty but also offer that spooktacular theme that fits for Holiday parties, school parties, and more.
Try these Halloween cupcakes, festive Halloween pancakes, or even these Hocus Pocus themed brownies.
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❤️ Why You’ll Love This Recipe
- Homemade cookies or store bought peanut butter cookie dough
- Easy to decorate
- Fun to make
- Kid Friendly
- Great for your Halloween party
🛒Ingredients
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- Peanut butter cookie mix – you can also make homemade
- Milk chocolate chips or chocolate candy melts
- Paramount crystals – you can also use vegetable shortening or coconut oil
- Whoppers – or malted milk balls
See the recipe card below for quantities.
🔪 How to Make Spider Cookies
- Make the cookies as instructed on your cookie mix. I used 1 T ball for these cookies.
- Melt chocolate in a microwave-safe container for 30-second increments, stirring between each session until chocolate is fully melted. Add a few paramount crystals if you need to thin out the chocolate.
- Allow the chocolate to cool a bit and then place it into a piping bag. Cut a small hole into the tip.
- With the piping bag, pipe a line in the middle of the cookie and draw out 4 lines on each side of the cookie to create the spider arms. Place two whopper balls on the center line. Allow the chocolate to set.
📝Variations
Do you want to change up this recipe and make it your own? Here are some ways that you can do that!
- Milk Duds – You can also use milk duds instead of Whoppers for the round balls. Or you can look around and find other chocolate candies to use.
- Frosting – Instead of melted chocolate for the spider legs you can use chocolate frosting to pipe onto the cookie.
- Cookie – I used a peanut butter cookie but any favor of cookies work. Sugar cookies, chocolate chip, etc.
See this peanut butter blossom cookie recipe on my website!
🥄 Equipment
- Small microwave save bowl
- piping bag
- Scissors
- Large bowl
- measuring cup and spoon
- cookie sheets
🥫 Storage
Store your cookies in an airtight container at room temperature for 3-5 days. You will find the cookies are best eaten within the first two days of being made.
You can also freeze your cookies by placing them in a freezer container. Freeze for 3-4 months. Then thaw on the counter when you are ready to eat them. It takes about an hour to thaw.
💭 Tips
- If you are using homemade peanut butter cookies you get more or fewer cookies depending on your recipe size.
- Make sure the chocolate isn’t too hot or it can run a bit more and glide off the cookies. Let the chocolate set up a bit before you go to pipe it on.
- Pouring the chocolate into a Ziploc bag is great and you can cut off a small tip to pipe onto the cookies.
- Don’t overcook the peanut butter cookies or it will dry out and crumble a bit.
- You can add candy eyes to these spiders if you want to add more flare to them.
⁉️ FAQ
Do you have questions about this recipe? Here are the answers to the most commonly asked questions.
No, you do not have to roll your peanut butter cookie dough in sugar. If you do take your dough and roll it in granulated sugar and place it on cookie sheet.
Sure, you can use a miniature peanut butter cup instead of a malt ball Whopper. It is so tasty and will compliment the peanut butter cookie nicely.
Go right ahead and make as many cookies if you would like. This is a great cookie recipe to whip up for parties, after school treats, and more. Make sure to try them out this week.
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Spider Cookies
Equipment
- Small microwave save bowl
- piping bag
- Scissors
- Large bowl
- measuring cup and spoon
- cookie sheets
Ingredients
- 17.5 ounces Peanut butter cookie mix you can also make homemade
- 1 cup Milk chocolate cups or chocolate candy melt
- 1 tablespoon Paramount crystals shortening or coconut oil
- 48 Whoppers Or Malted Milk Balls
Instructions
- Make the cookies as instructed on your cookie mix. I used 1 T balls for these cookies.
- Allow the cookies to cool completely
- Melt chocolate in a microwave safe container for 30 second increments, stirring between each session until chocolate is fully melted. Add a bit of paramount crystals if you need to thin out the chocolate.
- Allow the chocolate to cool a bit and then place into a piping bag. Cut a small hole into the tip.
- With the piping bag, pipe a line in the middle of the cookie and draw out 4 lines on each side of the cookies to create the spider arms. Place two whopper balls on the center line. Allow to the chocolate to set.