Peanut Butter Cup Cookies

Posted on by aimee

I’m sure most of you are familiar with peanut blossoms, the classic Christmas cookie that consists of a peanut butter cookie with a Hershey’s Kiss or chocolate star on top. Ever since I was little they have always been one of my favorites. When I first started baking for the Holidays I knew I would need to make them, but I started thinking about how great they would be with peanut butter cups (I’m pretty convinced that almost anything is better with a peanut butter cup)! I knew it would be difficult to get the peanut butter cookie wrapped around most of the peanut butter cup, so that’s when I decided to try using my mini muffin pan to make cookies!

Sidebar: I’m pretty sure this was the very beginnings of Baking Junkie since it’s the first recipe I ever doctored up myself, and really got my baking juices flowing.

I can’t even begin to tell you how much I love these cookies. I made them for Christmas back in 2004 and everyone loved them so much I remember making them several times, well into February. I will still make these on request at any time of the year, but they are truly a Christmas cookie for me. If you have a favorite peanut butter cookie recipe you love, then feel free to use that.  These cookies would be difficult to make without a mini muffin pan, so if you don’t have one well, you just need to break down and buy one! I have three and I love them so much! There is even one more Christmas cookie I make with them (will be posted later).  Trust me it is a wise purchase (or gift idea) for any baker! Enjoy!

Peanut Butter Cup Cookies
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1/2 cup vegetable shortening
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup peanut butter
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
2 Tbsp milk
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
1 3/4 cup flour
1 bag of mini Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.Cream together shortening, sugars, and peanut butter. Add egg, vanilla and milk. In a separate bowl combine the salt, baking soda, and flour, then add to dough. Roll into balls and place in mini muffin pan. Place in oven and bake for 10 minutes. Remove from oven and immediately press a peanut butter cup into the center of each cookie. Let cool fully before removing from pan (easiest to do with a small paring knife).


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  • http://bakeforhappykids.blogspot.com/ Zoe

    These cookies must be very yummy when consumed when the Reese peanut cup slightly melted into the cookies center :D

  • http://keepitsweet.wordpress.com Lauren at KeepItSweet

    this is one of my all-time favorite cookies! love them:-)

  • Jordan Marcus

    I am not a fan of PB cookies, but I loved these growing up. My mom made them all the time! Everytime she broke out the mini muffin pans I got so excited b/c I knew she was baking a batch. Yum!

  • c

    Just to clarify, the peanut butter cups are peeled before going in, right? I only ask because the photo looks a bit like they weren’t!

  • http://www.bakingjunkie.com aimee

    Yes they are definitely peeled prior to putting them in the cookies. Sorry if the picture looks deceiving!

  • http://www.bakingjunkie.com aimee

    Zoe- that is the best way to eat them! You always want to let them cool for a bit before eating because otherwise you’ll have a gooey chocolately mess!

  • http://mixinthingsup.com Jackie

    Oh I love these. My mom made these every Christmas and I made them for my husband for the first time this year. He has already eaten several batches himself!

  • http://iamdez.com Dez

    Megan made these today… NOM NOM NOM.

    Thanks for posting this one.

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  • Kerry

    Made these tonight … They were delicious !!! Thank you for sharing . Will definitely be making these again !