Peanut Butter Spider Cookies

Steps to make

1. 1

   Heat the oven and prepare a baking sheet

   5 min
   

   Preheat the oven to 350 °F. Line a baking sheet with non-stick baking paper.

2. 2

   Combine the sugars

   1 min
   

   In the bowl of a food mixer, lightly mix the sugars together using the flat paddle attachment.

4. 3

   Beat in the peanut butter and vegetable shortening

   3 min
   

   Add the peanut butter and vegetable shortening to the bowl. Beat on medium until you have a light and smooth mixture.

5. 4

   Mix in the eggs and vanilla extract

   2 min
   

   Beat in the eggs and vanilla extract for a minute until fully combined.

6. 5

   Sift in the flour, baking soda and salt

   1 min
   

   Sift the flour, baking soda, and salt into the same bowl and beat on low until fully incorporated.

7. 6

   Shape the dough

   3 min
   

   Roll small balls of dough. Place them about 2-3 inches apart on the lined baking sheet and gently flatten each cookie with your fingers.

8. 7

   Bake

   20 min
   

   Bake for 12 minutes. Remove from the oven and while they are still hot, make indents in the surface of each cookie. Return the cookies to the oven and continue to bake for 6-8 more minutes.

9. 8

   Cool on a wire rack

   5 min
   

   Allow the cookies to rest on the baking sheet for around 5 minutes before transferring them to a wire rack to cool completely.

10. 9

    Decorate the cookies

    15 min
    

    Place a small amount of melted chocolate into the indent of each cookie and place a Lindor chocolate truffle on the melted chocolate. Place each truffle so that the little hole at the bottom look like spider mouths. Using melted chocolate, stick the candy eyes to each truffle. Finally, pipe 8 legs onto each cookie.

11. 10

    Serve

    

    Allow the chocolate to set, then serve the spider cookies on a platter and watch them disappear!