These Halloween Peanut Butter Cookie Cups start with a 3 ingredient, flourless cookie! Add your favorite candy and make a spooky treat this holiday!
Use this easy 3 ingredient peanut butter cookie recipe, or my favorite classic peanut butter cookie recipe. Both work great and taste amazing!
Peanut Butter Cookie Cups
One of my husband’s favorite cookies growing up were these simple peanut butter cookie cups.
You take a Tablespoon of the cookie dough and place it in a mini muffin tin, bake, then press a Reese’s PB cup mini into the hot cookie. Voila. Dessert. To this day those are still one of his favorite cookies.
I knew I wanted to make a fun Halloween treat (I was on a roll with these Butterfinger Frankenstein Cupcakes and these Spooky Eyeball Cake Balls).
Of course I had no refrigerated cookie dough on hand (do people keep rolls of this on hand??).
So I did the next best thing. I made the EASIEST peanut butter cookie dough with only three ingredients.
You may remember this cookie dough from these Peanut Butter and Jelly Cookies.
PRO TIP: Make my chocolate chip cookie cups next!!
Ingredient Notes
The best part of the base of these cookies is it’s only 3 ingredients!
- Peanut Butter– creamy or crunchy it doesn’t matter. I prefer Jif or Skippy vs a natural brand for this recipe.
- Sugar
- Egg
To make the fun creepy Halloween cookies you will also need:
- White and Dark Chocolate melting wafers– I prefer the Ghirardelli brand, as they taste great and melt smooth.
- Candy Eyes– most large grocery stores carry these in the baking aisle
- Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups– just the minis, the white chocolate ones are fun for the mummies!
- Red gel icing– to make the bloody eyeballs
Tips and Tricks
- One batch makes 24 cookie cups. You decide if that’s enough, and adjust the candy and toppings accordingly!
- I used my favorite non-stick mini muffin tin and sprayed it with baking spray. You can also grease your pan with my homemade cake release if you have no baking spray!
- Have all your candy unwrapped so you can press them into your cookie cups immediately when taking them out of the oven! Allow the cookie cups to sit in the pan for about 10 minutes, then use a butter knife and they should POP right out!
- For the mummy: you can use either white chocolate peanut butter cups or marshmallows (for a fun fluffernutter treat). Use melted white chocolate and drizzle it on the cookie to create the scraps of cloth! Don’t forget the candy eyes!
- For the spider: you can use either a peanut butter cup or a rolo for these fun treats. Then press your candy eyes on top and use melted chocolate to create the legs!
- For the bloody eyeballs, you can use either a white chocolate peanut butter cup or marshmallow. Then use red gel to create the bloodshot look and the big candy eyes!
- Freeze Cookies. Use my tips on how to freeze cookie dough for later.
Recipe FAQs
They have a crisp exterior with a soft and chewy center!
Keep these in an airtight container at room temperature.
Yes! If you’re going to freeze these cookies, they turn out best if frozen without decorations. Push the Reese’s in the warm cookie and skip the toppings. Freeze in airtight container for up to 3 months.
More Halloween Recipes
- I get lots of comments when I bring this pumpkin to parties! And the guacamole is amazing too!
- These Spooky Brookies are a cinch to make, and delicious to eat!
- Go savory and bring along this Spooky Taco cheese ball. I’m obsessed!
- Friends and family will love these Monster Sugar Cookies! Great for parties, bake sales, and lunch boxes!
- Turn your favorite mint chocolate chip rice krispie treats into Frankenstein, or take a homemade (or store bought) rice krispie treat to make these EASY spider rice krispie treats and mummy rice krispie treats!
- Make a fun, no bake treat! This Halloween Dirt cake is the perfect graveyard that tastes amazing!
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Halloween Peanut Butter Cookie Cups
Ingredients
For the cookies:
- 1 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 large egg
For the mummy cookies:
- 24 white chocolate Reese’s cups or 12 regular sized marshmallows, cut in half
- 48 candy eyes
- ½ cup Ghiradelli White Chocolate Melting Wafers melted
For the Spider cookies:
- 24 Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup miniatures unwrapped
- 48 candy eyes
- ½ cup Ghiradelli Dark Chocolate Melting Wafers melted
For the Spooky Eyeballs:
- 24 Reese’s White Chocolate Peanut butter cup miniatures unwrapped (or 12 regular marshmallows, cut it half)
- sparkly red gel
- sparkly red gel
- 24 spooky eyeballs
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Spray mini muffin tin with baking spray. Set aside.
- In a bowl, combine peanut butter, sugar, and egg. Mix until well blended.
- Using a 1 Tablespoon cookie scoop, drop by spoonfuls into tin. Bake for 12-14 minutes.
- Decide which design you will make (if you’re making a little of each, adjust ingredient amounts accordingly).
- Remove pan from oven and immediately press your Reese’s or marshmallow half into the hot cookie. Begin decorating (see notes below for steps)! ENJOY.
Notes
- Have all your candy unwrapped so you can press them into your cookie cups immediately when taking them out of the oven! Allow the cookie cups to sit in the pan for about 10 minutes, then use a butter knife and they should POP right out!
- For the mummy: you can use either white chocolate peanut butter cups or marshmallows (for a fun fluffernutter treat). Use melted white chocolate and drizzle it on the cookie to create the scraps of cloth! Don’t forget the candy eyes!
- For the spider: you can use either a peanut butter cup or a rolo for these fun treats. Then press your candy eyes on top and use melted chocolate to create the legs!
- For the bloody eyeballs, you can use either a white chocolate peanut butter cup or marshmallow. Then use red gel to create the bloodshot look and the big candy eyes!
But how do they taste?
That’s what I’m wondering?
These are just absolutely adorable! What a great idea! Peanut butter cookies are a favorite of my hubby, too – won’t he be thrilled with these!??! Thanks bunches!
These are so cute – what a great idea!
These are so adorable and fun! My kids are going to love this recipe! So excited to decorate these with my kids!
These are really fun ideas!! Love how easy these are to make!
I made these for my daughter’s Halloween party at school and all the kids loved them! I will totally make them again!
These are so cute! They also look delicious. I am going to make them with my kiddos this month.
These are absolutely adorable!!
These are so cute! I love how quick and easy they are to whip up.
Ingredients promise the cups vanish in a speed of light ! Thank you !
STOP STOP STOP these are too cute!!! What a delightful party food.