Peanut Butter Cup Cookies

Peanut Butter Cup Cookies

 

 I’m ashamed to admit that I ate about 20 of these cookies.  But they were so good!  Another fantastic recipe from AllRecipes!  This was in the December/January 2014 issue.

Ingredients:

1 ¾ c. all-purpose flour

½ t. salt

1 t. baking soda

½ c. butter, softened

½ c. white sugar

½ c. creamy peanut butter

½ c. packed brown sugar

1 egg, beaten

1 t. vanilla

2 T. milk

40 mini peanut butter cups, unwrapped

Directions:

Prehead oven to 375 degrees.  Sift together flour, salt, and baking soda.  Set aside. 

Cream together butter, sugar, peanut butter, and brown sugar until fluffy.  Beat in egg, vanilla, and milk.  Add flour mixture; mix well.  Shape into 40 balls and place each ball into an ungreased mini muffin tin. 

Bake for about 8 minutes.  Remove from oven and immediately press a mini peanut butter cup into the center of each cookie.  Cool and carefully remove from pan.

In my test kitchen:

Other people suggested that you can use a cookie sheet and don’t need to use a mini-muffin pan if you don’t have one.  I was fortunate to have a 24 cup and 12 cup pan and it was really nice to cook them that way.  These cookies are definitely done at 8 minutes.  They may not look like it, but they are done.  I might even suggest pulling them out at 7 minutes…but then again, that’s because my oven runs rather hot. 

~Happy Cooking!