Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup Cookies
I don't mean to incite panic or anything, but there are 39 days until Christmas.
Less, even, depending on when you read this.
SO! You may want to make fun of me for being all proactive and starting my Christmas baking, but THIRTY-NINE DAYS. THAT'S NOT VERY MANY. I won't finish my Christmas baking if I don't get started. Thus, I've started.
As always, I started with the cookies that freeze well. If I knock out one or two kinds per week up until the week of Christmas, I'll be okay.
First up, Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup Cookies
Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup Cookies
(Makes 24 cookies)
1 cup butter, softened
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 cups flour
2/3 cups baking cocoa
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
Miniature Reese's peanut butter cups, unwrapped
1. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
2. Mix the butter, sugar, eggs, and vanilla in a large mixing bowl and low speed.
3. In a separate medium mixing bowl, whisk the flour, cocoa, baking soda, and salt together.
4. Gradually add the dry ingredients to the butter/sugar/egg/vanilla mixture and mix at low speed until well combined. It will make a sticky dough.
5. Take a teaspoon or so of dough and roll it into a little ball. The ball should be about 1" across. Roll that little ball in some granulated sugar until it's coated. Then place the ball in a mini muffin pan space. Repeat until all of the cookies are happily balled up and in a pan.
6. Bake at 350 degrees for 10-12 minutes.
7. Allow the cookies to cool for 1-2 minutes. Then, stick the Peanut Butter Cup into the center of the cookie.
It doesn't have to be perfect. No one will care.
8. Allow the cookies to cool thoroughly before removing them from the pan (you can speed the process by placing them in the fridge or freezer for a few minutes). The easiest way to get the cookies out of the pan is to slide a knife along the edge of a cookie. They pop right out.
9. Eat one before you throw them in the freezer. Quality control, people. It's important.
Recipe
Reader Comments (1)
Aren't these the same as/super similar to the chocolate dream cookies? Or is that me hallucinating things again? (It could be...because I haven't had time to bake and my beloved mixer is dying. I didn't even know that it was possible for a kitchenaid to die. :( )