Easy peanut butter cookies recipe; Make baking peanut butter cookies fun by adding candy in the middle.
Not that there’s anything wrong with a plain old, ordinary peanut butter cookies or anything, but sometimes it’s fun to just take them to the next level. Know what I mean?
I took these to the next level by stuffing them with peanut butter cups. It’s like homemade cookie meets candy bar.
That’s how I roll. With sweets upon sweets inside sweets near sweets.
This particular sweet creation is the brain child of The Incomparable Miss K. It seems she is a fan of peanut butter. And peanut butter cookies. And peanut butter cups. And putting them all together.
Which is probably why she is so incomparable.
The key to these babies is a muffin tin. You put a little dough in the bottom of the muffin cups, then put a peanut butter cup on top, and a little more dough over that.
Then bake to peanut butter perfection.
I wanted to give them a peanut butter cookie look even though they didn’t look like a traditional cookie. I dumped them out on the cooling rack upside down, and left them there a couple minutes. It gave them a square grid pattern on top that reminded me of the crosshatch that most peanut butter cookies have.
The really fun thing about these is that, like the preachers daughter, they’re not as innocent as they look. Cut them open and surprise people with a little extra decadence!
Decadence that requires a glass of milk, and a grateful nod to The Incomparable Miss K.
Want more? Try these stuffed cookies!
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- ½ cup butter, softened
- 1 cup peanut butter
- ½ cup sugar
- ½ cup brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 1½ cups flour
- 16-20 peanut butter cups
- Cream butter, peanut butter, and sugars. Add egg and vanilla and mix well.
- Add salt and soda and mix well. Add flour and mix just until combined.
- Prepare a well-greased muffin tin. Take a small amount of dough, and flatten into a disc, and place it in the bottom of the muffin cup. Place a peanut butter cup on top. Make a second disc of dough and place that on top of the peanut butter cup. Fill all muffin cups this way.
- Bake at 350F for 13-18 minutes, until edges are a bit dry and center appears done. Remove from oven, and use a knife or spoon to loosen cookies. Turn out on to a cooling rack and allow to cool.
These cookies make me happy!
That’s taking peanut butter cookies several levels up, Jen, not to just the next level!
Love it! They look amazing! Peanut Butter Cookies are my favorite so I know I would love these.