Peanut Butter Cup Cookies

by Elizabeth He on April 15, 2010

What can be more heavenly than peanut butter or chocolate — the delicious combination of the two!  Recently, my boyfriend went on a weekend roadtrip with his buddies.  Knowing how much he loves peanut butter (seriously, the man will eat out of the peanut butter jar as a meal with no shame), I thought making them some peanut butter cup cookies would be appropriate and well-received.  Basically, they’re peanut butter cookies with a miniature (Reese’s) peanut butter cup inside.  The boyfriend and his entourage loved it.  Plus, it was ridiculously easy to make, which works well with any hectic schedule. 

Peanut Butter Cup Cookies
(makes 36 cookies)

Ingredients:

  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 1/2 cup white sugar
  • 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
  • 1/2 cup peanut butter
  • 1 egg
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
  • 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 36 miniature chocolate covered peanut butter cups, unwrapped and frozen
  • Directions

    1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
    2. Unwrap the minature peanut butter cups and place in freezer.
    3. In a medium bowl, cream together the brown sugar, white sugar and butter.  Stir in the peanut butter, egg and vanilla.  Sift together the flour, baking soda and salt, stir into the peanut butter mixture until the dough comes together.  Shape into 1 inch balls and press them into the cups of an ungreased mini cupcake/muffin pan.
    4. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven. As soon as the cookies come out of the oven, press a mini chocolate covered peanut butter cup down into the center of each cookie until the top of the peanut butter cup is even with the cookie dough.  
    5. Allow the cookies to cool completely before removing them from the pan, or else they might fall apart.

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    { 3 comments }

    Edmundo Bouck April 16, 2010 at 6:51 am

    The nutrition level of organic foods is much higher than the ordinary, chemical added plantation foods, the main thing is the not organic plantation they strike for faster grow rate of the plantations, hence it shorten the time needed for the plantation to accumulate enough nutrition and vitamin in it, instead pumping more chemical stuff for it to grow faster and bigger but not much good ingredients.

    Elizabeth He April 15, 2010 at 3:35 pm

    It’s about 110 calories each.

    claudia April 15, 2010 at 1:01 pm

    How many calories in each one?

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