Peanut Butter Cup Cookies I recipe

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Ingredients

¾ cup peanut butter
½ cup shortening
½ cup white sugar
⅓ cup packed brown sugar
1 egg
2 tablespoons milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 ⅓ cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
⅓ cup granulated sugar for decoration
30 miniature chocolate covered peanut butter cups, unwrapped

Nutrition Info

271 calories
carbohydrate: 29.8 g
cholesterol: 11.2 mg
fat: 15.5 g
fiber: 1.4 g
protein: 5.4 g
saturatedFat: 4.1 g
servingSize: -
sodium: 166 mg
sugar: 20.5 g
transFat: : -
unsaturatedFat: : -

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C).

  2. In a large mixer bowl cream peanut butter, shortening, 1/3 cup sugar and the brown sugar. Add egg, milk and vanilla, beat well.

  3. Combine flour and baking soda, gradually add to creamed mixture, blending thoroughly. Shape dough into 1 1/2 inch balls, roll the balls in sugar.

  4. Place on ungreased cookie sheet, bake 10-12 minutes. Remove from oven and IMMEDIATELY place unwrapped peanut butter cup on top of each cookie, pressing down so that cookie cracks around edges. Cool slightly, remove from cookie sheet.

Recipe Yield

3 dozen

Recipe Note

Peanut butter cookies topped with miniature chocolate peanut butter cup candy. You may need a few more or less peanut butter cups depending on how many cookies you make out of a batch of dough.

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