Ingredients
Scale
- Ritz crackers
- Creamy peanut butter
- 12 oz. or 16 oz. package(s) of candy melts or Almond Bark coating
- 2 tsp. shortening (such as Crisco) per each 12 oz. or 16 oz. package of candy melts or Almond Bark coating
- Green jelly beans or green M&Ms (for pumpkins)
- Black writing gel (for mummies, ghosts, Dracula, devils)
- Orange candy melts (for pumpkins, candy corn)
- Yellow candy melts (for candy corn)
- Candy eyes
- Purple candy melts (for monsters)
- Black shoelace licorice (for spiders)
- Pink candy melts (for brains)
- Chocolate chips (for bats, black cats)
- White chocolate chips (for bats)
- Oreo cookies (for bats)
- Tootsie Rolls (for Dracula)
- Chocolate sprinkles/jimmies (for Dracula)
- Heart sprinkles (for black cats)
- Pink sprinkles/jimmies (for black cats)
- Red gum drops or red jelly beans (for devils)
- Purple gum drops (optional, for monsters)
Instructions
- Spread peanut butter on Ritz crackers and sandwich them together.
- Melt candy coating with shortening in the microwave in 30-second intervals, stirring in between.
- Dip each cracker sandwich into the melted coating, covering completely, and place on wax paper.
- Decorate each cookie according to the chosen Halloween design (pumpkin, mummy, candy corn, ghost, monster, spider, brain, spider web, bat, Dracula, black cat, or devil).
- Let coating set completely or chill for faster setting.
- Store in an airtight container at room temperature or in the refrigerator if coatings are soft.
Notes
- Super easy designs: Pumpkin, Mummy, Candy Corn, Ghost, Monster.
- Easy designs: Spider, Brain.
- Moderate difficulty: Spider Web, Bat, Dracula, Black Cat, Devil.
- Prepare decorations before melting coating for easier assembly.
- Use clean craft tweezers for precise decoration placement.
- Toothpicks help smooth air bubbles or adjust decorations.
- Black writing gel stays sticky; store decorated cookies in a single layer.
- Prep Time: 1 hour
- Cook Time: 15 minutes
- Category: Dessert
- Method: No-Bake
- Cuisine: American
- Diet: Vegetarian
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cookie
- Calories: 120
- Sugar: 8g
- Sodium: 85mg
- Fat: 6g
- Saturated Fat: 2g
- Unsaturated Fat: 3g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 14g
- Fiber: 1g
- Protein: 2g
- Cholesterol: 0mg