Peanut Butter Cup Cookies
These peanut butter cup cookies are the perfect balance of chocolate and peanut butter! They have a soft peanut butter cookie base topped with a melty chocolate peanut butter cup – the sweetest indulgent little snack!
Peanut butter cookies are a staple cookie – there’s no getting around it – but add chocolate and you get one of the most popular flavor combinations to exist. These chocolate peanut butter cookies are a fun, elevated twist on a typical peanut butter blossom using chocolate kisses, but with a better chocolate to peanut butter ratio and an even prettier appearance!
Here are some more cookie recipes you’ll love: Hot Cocoa Cookies, White Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies, and White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookies.
Ingredients & Equipment
You’ll need the following ingredients and equipment to make these peanut butter cup cookies:
- Baking sheet
- Cookie scoops
- Flour
- Peanut butter
- Unsalted butter
- Granulated sugar
- Dark brown sugar
- Eggs
- Almond milk
- Vanilla extract
- Baking powder
- Salt
- 36 thin peanut butter cups
Customize This Recipe!
There are a few different ways you can customize this recipe:
- Add chocolate to the dough. If you want even more chocolate, add mini chocolate chips or very finely chopped chocolate to the peanut butter cookie dough before assembling and baking these cookies.
- Drizzle something sweet on top. Adding a caramel or white chocolate drizzle would add even more sweet flavor to these cookies, plus an even more elevated look!
Kitchen Tips:
- Utilize mise en place! Make sure you have all of your ingredients prepped and ready before you begin making this recipe – it will help save you time and keep you organized.
- Use thin peanut butter cups. For the perfect peanut butter to chocolate ratio, use a thin peanut butter cup–you won’t be adding too much peanut butter, and they can peek out over the top of the cookie without taking up too much of the inside. (You could use normal peanut butter cups, but you’ll just have to make the cookies a little bigger since they’ll need to cover a bigger chocolate cup.)
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Peanut Butter Cup Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup peanut butter
- ½ cup butter room temp
- ¼ cup granulated sugar
- ¾ cup dark brown sugar
- 1 egg
- ¼ cup almond milk
- 1 ¼ tsp vanilla extract
- 1 ½ cups flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp salt
- 36 Reese’s Thins
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 375ºF and prepare a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- In a standard mixer, cream together the peanut butter, butter, and sugars until smooth.
- Mix in the egg, almond milk, and vanilla extract until combined.
- In a separate bowl, mix the flour, baking powder and salt.
- Add your dry mixture to the peanut butter mixture and beat until combined.
- Using a cookie scoop for consistency, drop your cookies about 2 inches apart on your baking sheet.
- Bake for 8-10 minutes, until slightly more golden and flattened.
- After baking, use a hollow donut cutter that's slightly bigger than your cookies to keep the shape when placing the Reese's Thins on each cookie.*
- Let cookies cool slightly, or chill them to harden the chocolate back up before serving!
Notes
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