Trick or treat?!
Pretty sure you and I know my answer will always be treat.
Especially if there is chocolate and nut butter involved!
Who’s with me?!
I know Halloween isn’t something we really celebrate here in Australia but give me an excuse to make some fun and festive treats and I am all in.
I just can’t help myself.
Eve asked if we could make batch of festive cookies to share with her friends for their after school Halloween party and lets just say, she didn’t have to ask twice.
Cookies, chocolate and peanut butter . . . I’m always in!
I know it’s a little last minute but these spooky little spider cookies turned out so well I thought I might as well snap a couple of pics and share them here for you to enjoy too.
Just in case you were looking for some last minute festive fun . . . or just a different way to get your daily chocolate, PB, cookie fix!
3 ingredients to make the cookies, 3 ingredients to put it all together and if you don’t want to start from scratch it’s still just 3 ingredients that you’d need to buy, although if your anything like me, cookies, chocolate and peanut butter are life essentials that we ALWAYS have on hand.
Chocolate = happiness.
Peanut butter is the glue that holds my body together
And cookies, well . . . I just love em’
If you haven’t made these quick and easy 3 ingredient peanut butter cookies yet then you my friend are in for a real treat!
Especially with the added chocolate . . . sooooo good!
The cookies themselves are crisp and crunchy, but not too crunchy, subtly sweet, deliciously buttery – cripsy edges but soft & chewy in the middle which if you ask me, is the best kind cookie!
They come together in 1 bowl with 1 spoon and bake up to delicious, delectable , devour-able perfection in just 6-8 minutes!
While your cookies cool, melt some chocolate , pour into a ziplock (or piping bag if you have one handy), drizzle on some spidery legs, add some google-y eyes to your peanut butter cups and voila.
flourless dark chocolate peanut butter spoooky spider cookies for everyone!
Gluten Free – Dairy free – Refined sugar free – Low carb – Keto – Paleo & Vegan Friendly.
Fun to make, fun to eat, fun to share with the ones you love! Or just keep all to your fine self because, yummmm
All natural, quick and easy , crisp and crunchy, deliciously buttery dark chocolate peanut butter spooky spider cookies . . .
I hope you love them as much as we do, which FYI, is A LOT!
Chocolate Peanut Butter Spooky Spider Cookies
- Cook Time: 10-15 mins
- Persons: 10-12
- Difficulty: Easy
- Ingredients
- For the cookies –
- 1 cup of peanut/ almond or cashew butter – or nut/seed butter of choice
- 1/2 cup of monk fruit sweetener – or coconut sugar
- 1 egg – vegan friends sub flax egg
- 1 Tablespoon of tapioca (arrowroot starch) – optional
- Optional add ins-
- A pinch of salt
- 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla extract – optional
- 2 Tablespoons of collagen – for gut healing goodness
- For serving –
- 1/2 cup of dark chocolate
- 2 Tablespoons of white chocolate (or you can just uy those googly eye sprinkles, I just didnt have any at the time)
- Peanut butter cups – “can” sub store bought but my healthy home made spiced peanut butter cups make these cookies (& your life by extension) at least 10 x more magical
100% worth it!!
- Instructions
- Pre-heat oven to 175’C/350/F
- Line a baking tray with baking/parchment paper (or a silpat mat) and set aside)
- Whisk egg, sugar, vanilla, salt and collagen, if using, in a medium size bowl until well combined.
- Add peanut butter and stir until it comes together to form a dough.
- Scoop, roll and press into desired shape and size and sprinkle with a little extra salt.
- If you want the pretty pattern on top use a fork to gently press down in the centre.Note – keep in mind these cookies don’t really spread much so shape them how you want to eat them.I like to make mine on the smaller side and tend to use about 2 Tablespoons of dough per cookie. Feel free to make them as big or small as you like #youdyou just make sure you adjust your baking time accordingly.
- Bake smaller cookies for 6-8 minutes, or larger cookies for 10-12 – until they are deliciously golden and feel just set. You may think they are slightly under done but trust me, they’re perfect. They firm up as they cool.
- Now comes the hard part, you need to leave your cookies on the baking sheet for 3-5 minutes or so to cool and set before you move them.
- If you try to move them too soon they will crumble. They will still be delicious but they may fall apart in your hands. If this happens, fear not, either continue on and inhale the crumbs or set them aside and use them as a smoothie topper!
- While your cookies are cooling melt chocolate by your preferred method.
- Pour your dark chocolate in to a small zip lock bag and pipe on your spiders legs
- Use a tooth pick to add google-y eyes to your peanut butter cups (not necessary but still fun) . Start with a dot of white and then add a smaller dot of dark chocolate to make the pupils.
- Press your peanut butter cup on to the centre of your cookie, ,the melted chocolate should hold them in place.
- Devour
Note – Cookies will keep well in an air-tight container for up to 7 days (ours have never lasted that long so that’s best guess) or can be frozen for up to 3 months.
Enjoy xo
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Question of the day –
What’s your favourite Halloween treat?
Feel free to share recipes, or links to your fave recipes in the comments below or on the Facebook page and please for the love of all that is good in this world when you do make your 3 ingredient flourless dark chocolate peanut butter spooky spider cookies (or any of the recipes you find on this blog of mine) go ahead and snap a pic and share it either on the Facebook page, or tag me on twitter or Instagram. Sharing is caring remember.
Do it, do it You know you want to ox
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