Peanut Butter Spider Cookies

A moist, crumbly halloween cookie that is more treat then trick. You'll note that my peanut butter cookie is incredibly simple, I was inspired by a letter to the editor of Gourmet magazine in the 1990s that had a recipe for 3 ingredient peanut butter cookies. I made them. They were so peanut buttery. I replaced the egg with flax egg when I became vegan but the texture and flavor were off, now I have changed out the flax with aquafaba and voila the texture and flavor are spot on again.
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 12 minutes
Total Time 22 minutes
Servings 0

Ingredients
  

  • 1 cup peanut butter creamy or crunchy
  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • 3 tbsp aquafaba (liquid from cooking legumes)
  • 1 pinch salt

Instructions
 

  • Heat your oven to 350 Fahrenheit. Line two baking trays with parchment.
  • Whisk the aquafaba till just foamy about two minutes. In a medium bowl mix the sugar, salt and peanut butter until creamy then beat in the aquafaba until smooth.
  • Scoop out your cookies. Roll into balls and flatten with the palm of your hands. For the large cookies I used two tablespoons for the small web ones I used one tablespoon. With a paring knife make a spider web pattern in the cookies. 
  • Bake for ten minutes for the small cookies and twelve minutes for the large. Remove from the oven and allow to cool on a rack 30 minutes.
  • Melt the chocolate and pipe a dot on the large cookies and affix the peanut butter cup. Now pipe the legs and add the eyes gluing them on with chocolate. On the small cookies pipe the web.  
  • The cookie dough comes out to 35 tablespoons worth. So that makes 35 small cookies or 17 large or a mix of the two. 

Notes

Make these peanut butter spider cookies but make sure you eat them before they eat you! My peanut butter cookierecipe is so simple with only four ingredients and packs the most peanut flavor I’ve ever tasted in a cookie. I recommend crunchy peanut butter to get the full effect. These cookies are not only adorable but taste like eating freshly roasted peanuts dipped in chocolate.
“Wilbur never forgot Charlotte. Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart. She was in a class by herself. It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both.”
-E.B. White Charlotte’s Web

Recipe by Sunnyside Hanne

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