Party Peanut Butter Cup Cookies Food

PEANUT BUTTER CUP COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Spray a 12-cup muffin tin with cooking spray.
• Beat the peanut butter, granulated sugar, light brown sugar and salt in a large bowl with an electric mixer on medium-high speed until light and fluffy, about 5 minutes. Beat in the vanilla and egg on high until the dough comes together in a mass.
• Pour some sanding sugar in a small bowl. Form the dough into 12 balls and roll to coat in the sugar. Put a dough ball in each muffin cup. Press the dough about 1/2 inch up the sides to make a shell. Fit a peanut butter cup into each dough shell. Bake until the edges of the cookies are set and golden, 10 to 12 minutes. Remove the tin to a cooling rack, then immediately top the peanut butter cups with a sprinkling of the peanuts. Cool 15 minutes, then remove the cookies to the wire rack to cool completely.

PARTY PEANUT BUTTER CUP COOKIES

Steps:

• Cream butter and peanut butter with sugars and vanilla.
• Add egg and beat.
• Add dry ingredients and mix well.
• Form small balls of dough about the size of a small walnut.
• Note: I use my Pampered Chef cookie scoops to measure out 1 teaspoon or 2 teaspoon balls, depending on whether I want a greater yield or a fancier looking cookie.
• Using mini muffin pans(each cup about 1 1/2 inches in diameter), place 1 ball in each muffin cup.
• Bake at 350 degrees for about 10 minutes (or 335 convection for 10 minutes).
• While the cookie balls are baking, unwrap the candies completely.
• As soon as the cookies come out of the oven (they will be very soft at this point), push a candy into the center of each ball, making the cookie into acup that surrounds the candy but does not cover it.
• Note: To make the candies easier to push into the hot cookie, I usually keep the unwrapped candies on a plate in the refrigerator until I am ready to insert them.
• Let cookies cool in pan until they are set enough to lift out without breaking.

GIANT PEANUT BUTTER CUP COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325°.
• Combine flour, soda and salt.
• In mixer, beat the butter and sugar until creamy.
• Beat in vanilla and egg.
• Stir in flour mixture.
• Measure out 1/4 cups of dough and place on ungreased cookie sheet (4 cookies per sheet--these are big cookies) Cut each peanut butter cup into 4 pieces and push 8 pieces into top of each cookie, flattening the dough a bit.
• Bake until cookies are golden brown, about 15 minutes.
• (The centers will still be a bit pale and soft).
• Let cookies cool for at least 1 minute on baking sheet before moving them to rack to cool.

PEANUT BUTTER CUP COOKIES I

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C).
• In a large mixer bowl cream peanut butter, shortening, 1/3 cup sugar and the brown sugar. Add egg, milk and vanilla; beat well.
• 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.
• 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.

PEANUT BUTTER CUP COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
• Sift together the flour, salt and baking soda; set aside.
• Cream together the butter, sugar, peanut butter and brown sugar until fluffy. Beat in the egg, vanilla and milk. Add the flour mixture; mix well.
• Shape into 40 balls (approx. 3/4 inch in diameter) and place each into an ungreased mini muffin pan.
• Bake at 375 degrees for about 8 minutes. Remove from oven and immediately press a mini peanut butter cup into each ball.
• Cool and carefully remove from pan.