These Halloween Peanut Butter Cups are a fun and spooky treat. The white chocolate peanut butter cups are made to look like Jack Skellington and will look great on your Halloween dessert table!
These would be perfect served alongside the Graveyard Dirt Cake!
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Why you'll love this recipe
✔️ If your school is not a peanut-free zone then your kids will love when you send these in their school lunch boxes.
✔️ Perfect size for a quick treat or even as edible crafts with the kids. They will have fun decorating their own.
✔️ The peanut butter lover in your family will love the flavor combination of chocolate, peanut butter, and creamy cocoa butter from the white chocolate.
Ingredients
Please refer to the printable recipe card at the bottom of this post for the exact measurements.
- Reese’s Cups
- white melting wafers
- vegetable oil
- edible ink marker
- black cookie icing (royal icing) to make your own, check out this recipe.
- chocolate or candy bats
Instructions
This is an overview of the instructions. For complete directions, scroll down to the bottom.
- Line a cookie or baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Very gently insert the cake pop stick into the Reese’s cups.
- Melt the candy wafers in a mixing bowl and stir until smooth.
- Add the vegetable oil to the melted wafers and mix thoroughly.
- While firmly holding the stick, completely submerge the Reese’s cup into the melted candy. Allow the excess to drip off into the bowl. Set the covered Reese’s onto the parchment paper and set for 20-30 minutes or until the candy has hardened.
- Carefully push the paper straw onto the cake pop stick.
- Using the edible ink marker, draw Jack’s mouth, adding smaller lines to resemble stitches.
- Use the cookie icing to make two large eyes and a nose. Trace the mouth curve, but leave the “stitches” as they are.
- Attach the bats to the top of the straw just below Jack’s face using a dot of the remaining cookie icing.
- Set for 1-2 hours at room temperature to allow the icing to harden.
Equipment
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- candy bats
- Mixing bowl
- Cake pop sticks
- Black and white paper straws, cut in half
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FAQ's
No, due to the cookie icing on top of these sweet treats, I don't recommend that you chill them. The food coloring will run and make a big mess.
You don't have to use Halloween peanut butter cups, regular ones will work just fine as well.
Test kitchen tips
- Use a gentle hand to insert the cake pop stick into your peanut butter cup, they can break through the peanut butter mixture easily and rip.
- If you are using chocolate instead of candy melts you may need to add coconut oil or vegetable shortening to keep your chocolate smooth.
- This is a great way to use leftover Halloween Candy. I don't know about you but I could watch The Nightmare Before Christmas any day of the year!!
- If you don't use the cake pop stick, store these in fun Halloween foils or cupcake liners. Then they are easy to grab from the dessert tray without touching the others!
Variations
- Instead of using white candy melts, you could also make these with different types of melted chocolate such as dark chocolate or semi-sweet chocolate chips. However, they will have a different look to them and they will not look like Jack Skellington.
- You could also great creative and use your favorite candy instead of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. Kit Kat, Snickers, and Milky Way would all work great and you can find them all on the Halloween candy aisles together while you are at the store.
- If you want to add a little crunch try using the peanut butter cups with Reese's pieces inside. I love the added texture!
- Instead of hand drawing the eye of every monster you can use candy eyes instead if you want to save a little time. Just "glue" them on with a little of the cookie icing.
Storage
Storage - Store these Halloween peanut butter cups in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 3 days. Make sure that you keep them away from heat sources so that they do not melt.
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- Grab the candy corn pumpkins, and other festive candy that you have in your candy dish and make this Graveyard Dirt Cake. It's a frightfully flavorful dessert that your kids will love.
- Nutter Butter Cookies are my favorite cookies and when you turn them into Nutter Butter Mummies they make a great addition to your dessert table for this spooky holiday.
- These Halloween Rice Krispies Treats are one of the Halloween staples that you will always find on my dessert table.
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- While these Halloween Potatoes take a little effort to make, they are always a hit, and they taste so good that even the picky eaters in your house will love them.
- While the little ones enjoy all the fun fall party games the adults can sip on one of these Boozy Halloween Cocktails. There is something on this list for everyone!
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Jack Skellington Halloween Peanut Butter Cups
Equipment
- Parchment Paper
- Cake Pop Sticks
- Black and White Straws
- Microwave-proof mixing bowl
Ingredients
- 12 Reese’s Cups unwrapped
- 12 ounce bag white melting wafers
- 1 ½ tablespoons vegetable oil
- Edible ink marker
- Black cookie icing (royal icing)
- 12 chocolate or candy bats
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Instructions
- Line a cookie or baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Very gently insert the cake pop stick into the Reese’s cups.
- Melt the candy wafers in a mixing bowl and stir until smooth.
- Add the vegetable oil to the melted wafers and mix thoroughly.
- While firmly holding the stick, completely submerge the Reese’s cup into the melted candy. Allow the excess to drip off into the bowl. Set the covered Reese’s onto the parchment paper and set for 20-30 minutes or until the candy has hardened.
- Carefully push the paper straw onto the cake pop stick.
- Using the edible ink marker, draw Jack’s mouth, adding smaller lines to resemble stitches.
- Use the cookie icing to make two large eyes and a nose. Trace the mouth curve, but leave the “stitches” as they are.
- Attach the bats to the top of the straw just below Jack’s face using a dot of the remaining cookie icing.
- Set for 1-2 hours at room temperature to allow the icing to harden.
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