Peanut Butter Spider Cookies
Nothin' spooky about these super cute spider cookies! Perfect for a harvest party or bake sale!
Servings: 22 cookies
Ingredients
- 3/4 c. peanut butter
- 1/2 c. vegetable shortening
- 1/3 c. granulated sugar
- 1/3 c. brown sugar
- 1 lg. egg
- 2 T. milk
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 c. all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- Additional sugar for rolling cookies
- 12 Two (5.1 oz.) bags Lindt Milk Chocolate Lindor Truffles cut in half
- 48 Candy eyes
- 1 tub milk chocolate frosting
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- In a large bowl, with an electric mixer, beat peanut butter and shortening until well blended. Add granulated sugar and brown sugar, beat until light and fluffy. Add egg, milk and vanilla, beat well.
- In another bowl, stir together flour, baking soda and salt, gradually beat into peanut butter mixture. Roll dough into walnut-sized balls, then roll in additional sugar.
- Place dough balls on an un-greased cookie sheet and bake for 8-10 minutes. While cookies are baking unwrap truffles.
- Allow the cookies to cool, then place a 1/2 truffle in the middle of the cookie pressing down a bit. (Note: If the cookies are too warm the truffle will melt, if the cookies are too cool they won't stick to the cookie.) You can also pipe some frosting into the center of each cookie before topping with a truffle to insure that they will stick.
- Once the cookies are completely cooled, pipe two dots of frosting onto each truffle and adhere candy eyes. Pipe 4 legs onto each side of the cookies, leaving a space in the front and back for easily handling.
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