Nutter Butter Ghosts Are The Perfect Halloween Treat

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These Nutter Butter Ghosts are the perfect Halloween treat to surprise your kids with or make a big impression with at the classroom Halloween party.

Nutter butters decorated with white frosting and mini chocolate chips to look like ghosts.

If you don’t want to walk into the class party with just some store-bought cupcakes with spider rings pressed into the frosting, these easy to make treats are for you.

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In case you want to serve some more ghost snacks as a treat at your party, here are some chocolate covered Halloween pretzels you can decorate to look like ghosts and bats.

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Do Nutter Butter Cookies Have Nutritional Benefits?

As moms, we’re always trying to make sure our kids eat healthy, but also balance some fun treats in too. Well, luckily Nutter Butter cookies actually have quite a few nutritional benefits, so you can feel better about serving these treats.

Since these cookies have peanut butter in the filling, they contain healthy fats that help heart health and reduce bad cholesterol levels (so moms, feel free to eat a cookie too). Also, peanut butter is a good source of protein which is important for our active kids.

You wouldn’t think there’s any vitamins and minerals in the cookies, but there are. There’s Vitamin E and magnesium, which helps protect cells and support muscles and nerves; that’s important for growing kids.

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❤️ Why You’ll Love This Recipe

You’re going to impress your kids when you bring these cookies to their class party, since they are:

One-of-a-kind: This will be a unique treat that isn’t the same as what the other moms bring.
Easy to make: Such an easy way to transform store-bought snacks into cute ghost cookies.
Quick to make: They don’t take long to create — just about 10 minutes.
Fun to make: Your kids will love helping you add the eyes on the ghosts.

If you like making Halloween cookies, try these easy Jack Skellington cookies.

🥘 Ingredients

One of the best things about these cookies is that you only need three simple ingredients to make them.

Nutter Butter cookies: This is the base of the ghosts.
White candy melts: Either Wilton white candy melts or white almond bark will work.
Mini chocolate chips: These will be the ghosts eyes.

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🔀 Substitutions

Nutter Butter cookies: You can choose the generic or store brand if you prefer, but make sure they are the peanut shape since that’s what makes them work well as ghosts.

Mini chocolate chips: You can also use mini candy eyes if you prefer.

🥄 Equipment Needed / Helpful Tools

You only need a couple of things to make these Halloween cookies.

Microwave safe bowl: You will use a bowl to melt the chocolate in the microwave.
Wax paper: After decorating the cookies, you’ll place them on a piece of wax paper to set.

🔪 How to Make Nutter Butter Ghosts

This Halloween dessert is very simple to prepare. Just follow these instructions.

Step 1: Melt White Chocolate

Melt white chocolate wafers or vanilla almond bark in a small bowl in the microwave according to package instructions. Do NOT overheat or the coating will be too thick and end up clumping.

Step 2: Coat the Cookies

Dip each Nutter Butter cookie into the white candy coating. Tap to remove any excess chocolate.

Alternately, you can use a spoon or fork to drizzle the chocolate over the cookies. Otherwise, the ghosts end up with little points at the top of their heads.

package of nutter butters, a nutter butter decorated with white frosting, a fork with frosting.

Step 3: Add Eyes

Before the white chocolate sets, push two miniature chocolate chips in for the eyes. If you have them, you can use mini candy eyeballs instead.

A nutter butter decorated with white frosting and mini chocolate chips to look like a ghost.

Step 4: Let Cool

Set on wax paper or parchment paper to let the coating cool and harden.

Step 5: Serve and Enjoy

Once cooled, your Nutter Butter ghosts are ready to serve and enjoy.

❓ Recipe FAQs

How do I store these cookies?

Store in an airtight container at room temperature until ready to serve. Don’t put them in the refrigerator. Nutter Butters tend to absorb moisture and will get soft if you store them in the fridge.

What do I do if the candy melts become thick?

Microwave the candy melts again and stir until you get the thin consistency that you need to dip the cookies. If it’s very thick, add a little vegetable oil or a teaspoon of shortening.

What are some creative ways to present or serve Nutter Butter ghosts?

You can serve them on a Halloween platter, or on a regular platter surrounded by Halloween candy like pumpkins and candy corn.

🙏 Pairing

These are my favorite dishes to serve with Nutter Butter Ghosts:

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