These easy Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Brownies have been made into adorable Halloween brownies with a peanut butter cup spider on top!
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Talk about an easy, delicious brownie recipe! I am ALL about a themed treat, and with Halloween coming up, these fit the bill, but simply leave off the adorable peanut butter cup spider, and you have a brownie recipe topped with (egg-free) cookie dough that you will want to enjoy all year long!
I use my Brownie Recipe, which happens to be the best ever…try it if you haven’t already…BUT I added peanut butter cookie dough (egg-free of course) on top in a nice thick layer, because chocolate and peanut butter together is pure love.
Feel free to use any brownie recipe you would like, you can even use a boxed mix if you’re in a pinch! The fun part comes when you add the peanut butter cookie dough all over the top!
AND when you add the spider garnish, they become festive and spooky, PERFECT for your Halloween party!
Here Are The Easy Steps Foe Halloween Brownies
- Bake your brownies!
- When they are cooled make your egg free peanut butter cookie dough which is super easy to make. You could even skip this step entirely and just use buttercream frosting!
- Spread the cookie dough all over the brownies.
How To make Peanut Butter Cup Spiders
How To make Peanut Butter Cup Spiders- Use 2 different sizes of peanut butter cups, the miniature and itty bitty ones.
- On the smallest ones I piped on eyes with black frosting. You could also use the black gel, or even black candy melts.
- I placed them on the brownies, you can do it when they are cut or still in the pan.
- I used Chocolate Twizzlers for the legs…I just cut them skinny… you could also use pretzels or black licorice.
These go together so easily! You can chill them so they slice up clean.
PRO TIP: Use a HOT KNIFE to make your slices perfect!
There you go! Totally easy, totally rich and decadent and totally cute!
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- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 30 minutes
- Total Time: 50 minutes
- Yield: 24 brownies 1x
- Category: Brownies
- Method: Oven
- Cuisine: Dessert
Description
These are cute and festive Halloween Brownies, but leave off the spider and enjoy them all year long!
Ingredients
Bake Your Brownies. Use my Fudgy Brownies Recipe!
Peanut Butter Cookie Dough
- 1/2 cup butter, room temperature
- 1 cup light brown sugar
- 1 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1 cup plus 2 Tbsp of flour
Instructions
- Bake brownies and allow to cool completely.
- Beat butter and brown sugar in mixer until smooth. Mix in peanut butter and then flour until all ingredients are incorporated.
- Spread on brownies.
- Chill for at least 1/2 hour and then cut into squares.
Notes
Store airtight for up to 3 days.
Nutrition info below is only for the peanut butter cookie dough. See brownie nutrition info in the recipe card for the brownies.
Nutrition
- Serving Size:
- Calories: 140
- Sugar: 7 g
- Sodium: 48.1 mg
- Fat: 9.4 g
- Carbohydrates: 12.3 g
- Protein: 3 g
- Cholesterol: 10.2 mg
Got to love the PB and chocolate combination here, and that spider is too cute.
This icing is straight up heavenly! Yum!
I love your blog. So glad I found it. I trust your recipes 🙂
I love your blog. I trust your recipes.
These sound delicious! Can’t wait to try the recipe! Question: Do they need to be refrigerated, (because of the peanut butter cookie dough)?
They are so cute and oh my gosh, those brownies and the peanut butter cookie dough frosting look incredible! Seriously, you are dessert genius and you know how to make the cute as ever too!
Those look so cool! I love how you used the peanut butter dough as frosting!
These are seriously the cutest brownies EVER!
Oh they look so good! I did a guest post on another site about 6 mos ago and made brownies that look similar to these but I called it peanut butter-buttercream. I am in love with your concept of spreadable PB cookie dough! SO thick and rich! I love all things PB 🙂
Those spiders are too cute!! How did I not know that Chocolate Twizzlers were a thing? I’m questioning my whole life right now.