Dana Marie's Country Living Blog

One of my best tricks at Halloween is to make spider cookies. They're peanut butter cookies with little peanut butter cups on top. Here's how I do it - Halloween Spider Cookies Step 1 . Bake a batch of peanut butter cookies using your favorite recipe. Step 2 . While the cookies are still warm, put a small peanut butter cup on top of each one and let cool. Step 3 . Melt some chocolate chips, and using a piping bag or a plastic sandwich bag with a hole cut in the corner, draw some legs coming from each peanut butter cup. Step 4 . Pipe two dots onto each peanut butter cup and apply sugar eyes. You can find them in the baking section of your local store. And here's my favorite peanut butter cookie recipe from my newest cookbook, Vintage Cookie Recipes , available on Amazon® . Have a yummy, creepy Halloween! ~ Dana   Peanut Butter Cookies Ingredients 1/2 cup salted butter, softened 1/2 cup peanut butter 1/2 cup granulated white sugar 1/2 cup brown sugar 1 egg 1 teaspoon vanilla ...

I want to share what you can do if you decide you want to make a batch of cookies but open the fridge and realize you are out of eggs. To replace the eggs, add a nut butter or applesauce to your cookie recipe.   For example, my Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe already has 1/2 cup of peanut butter in it, so you can add another 1/2 cup of peanut butter to total 1 cup overall. They come out great, but with a texture all their own - a little more crumbly and with a kind of a melt-in-your-mouth feature. I quite like them.   Another example is oatmeal cookies. Instead of the egg you can add a cup of applesauce. And again, they turn out great.   Oatmeal Cookies Without Eggs As you can see in the photos, these cookies look great too! This is a tip that didn't make it into my new cookie cookbook coming out shortly, so here are the recipes.    Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies Without Eggs   Ingredients 1 cup salted butter, softened 1 cup peanut butter 1...