Everyone loves these peanut butter cup cookies, made with a miniature peanut butter cups inside a peanut butter cookie shell.
Ingredients:
- 36-48 miniature peanut butter cups
- 1-1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup whole wheat pastry flour
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- 1/3 cup butter
- 3/4 cup peanut butter
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 1/2 cup firmly-packed brown sugar
- 1 egg, lightly beaten
- 1 tsp. pure vanilla extract
Preparation:
- Place peanut butter cups in the freezer (there's no need to unwrap them; just place the whole bag in the freezer).
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
- In a small bowl, whisk together the flours and baking soda. Set aside.
- Cream the butter, peanut butter, and sugars together. Beat in the egg and vanilla.
- Add the flour mixture. Mix until a soft dough forms.
- Shape into 1-inch balls. Press dough balls into ungreased mini muffin tins, making an indentation in the middle with your thumb.
- Bake in preheated oven for 8 minutes. Remove from oven and immediately press a miniature peanut butter cup in the center of each cookie.
- Cool and remove from pan.
