Reese's Peanut Butter Pumpkin Spider
For an easy and fun Halloween treat, simply add pretzel legs to Reese's Peanut Butter Pumpkins and garnish with candy eyes.
Recipe Ingredients:
8 REESE'S (1.2-ounce) Peanut Butter Pumpkins
32 (2 1/2 to 3-inch) Large pretzel twists
1/4 cup HERSHEY'S Milk Chocolate Chips, HERSHEY'S SPECIAL DARK Chocolate Chips or HERSHEY'S Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips*
16 White YORK PIECES Candies or yellow REESE'S PIECES Candies
Cooking Directions:
- Line tray or cookie sheet with wax paper. Remove wrappers from desired number of peanut butter pumpkins. For each spider, cut 8 matching curved sections from pretzels which will form the legs. Set aside remaining pretzels pieces.
- Place milk chocolate chips in small microwave-safe bowl. Microwave at MEDIUM (50%) 30 seconds; stir. If necessary, microwave at MEDIUM an additional 10 seconds at a time, stirring after each heating, until chips are melted and smooth when stirred. Transfer to small heavy duty plastic food storage bag. Cut off one corner of bag about 1/4 inch from the tip.
- For each spider, place peanut butter pumpkin on prepared tray. Attach pretzel legs and white or yellow candy "eyes" to spider with melted chocolate; place dot of melted chocolate on each eye. Allow chocolate to set before moving spiders.
Makes 8 servings.
*This amount of chocolate will make about 8 spiders.
Recipe and photograph courtesy of the Hershey Kitchens, and reprinted with permission of The Hershey Company. © The Hershey Company.