Spider Cookies

Ingredients

• 110 g Butter
• 190 g Peanut Butter
• 100 g white Sugar
• 60 g brown Sugar
• 1 Egg
• 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
• 160 g Flour
• 0.5 tsp Baking Powder
• 0.5 tsp Baking Soda
• 24 Candies
• about 150 g dark Chocolate Coating
• white Fondant
• black Fondant

Method

1. Mix butter, peanut butter, white sugar, and brown sugar in a bowl.
2. Add egg and vanilla extract and mix well.
3. Combine flour, baking powder, and baking soda, then knead into the dough until dry.
4. Take about one tablespoon of dough, form small balls, and place on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper, about 12 balls per sheet.
5. Bake at 180°C convection for 10 minutes.
6. Remove cookies from the oven, press small indentations into the still warm cookies, and place candies into the indentations.
7. Bake the cookies for an additional 7 minutes.
8. Let the cookies cool until still warm.
9. Melt chocolate and fill into a small piping bag, cut small holes, and draw fine lines for the spider legs.
10. Shape small balls from white fondant for the eyes, and even smaller dark fondant balls for the pupils.
11. Glue the eyes onto the cookies with melted chocolate.
12. Finish the spider legs and eyes with dark chocolate and fondant.