Sweetpotato Spider Cookies
Servings: 24 cookies
Calories: 110kcal
Ingredients
- ½ C cooked mashed sweetpotato
- ½ C butter
- ¾ C brown sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 C flour sifted
- ½ tsp baking soda
- ½ C milk chocolate chips
- ⅓ C coconut Dried, toasted and shredded
- ½ tsp ground ginger
- ½ tsp ground cinnamon
- 48 malted milk balls (whoppers)
- 48 candy eyeballs
- ½ C dark chocolate
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350℉ and line an oven tray with baking paper.
- Beat the butter, brown sugar and vanilla extract in a bowl until combined.
- Slowly stir in sifted flour, ground ginger, ground cinnamon, baking powder, baking soda and mashed sweetpotato.
- When all ingredients are combined, add the milk chocolate chips and toasted/shredded coconut and work it into the dough.
- Place one tablespoon of mixture onto the lined oven tray each approximately 4 inches apart.
- Once the tray is full, bake the cookies for 12-15 minutes and once cooked, allow to cool.
- Using a small amount of warm melted dark chocolate, secure two Whoppers per cookie to form the spider’s body and head.
- Using a piping bag, create four lines of melted dark chocolate on each side of the cookie to form the spider’s legs.
- Stick on candy eyeballs with remaining melted chocolate and serve.
Nutrition
Serving: 1 | Calories: 110kcal | Carbohydrates: 19g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 3g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1g | Trans Fat: 0.001g | Cholesterol: 1mg | Sodium: 43mg | Potassium: 73mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 13g | Vitamin A: 403IU | Vitamin C: 0.1mg | Calcium: 19mg | Iron: 1mg | Net Carbohydrates: 19g