Ultimate Peanut Butter Cup Stuffed Chocolate Cookies
Ultimate Peanut Butter Cup Stuffed Chocolate Cookies are so awesome, we can't even resist these delectables! Enjoy the best of both worlds with our two favorite combos of peanut butter candy cups enrobed in chocolate sugar cookie dough!
Servings: 12 Large Cookies
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Ingredients
Ultimate Peanut Butter Cup Stuffed Chocolate Cookies
- ½ cup unsalted butter cold from fridge or room temperature
- ½ cup granulated sugar plus more to coat cookies
- ½ cup brown sugar
- ¼ cup creamy peanut butter
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 ⅓ cups all-purpose flour
- ⅔ cup dutched cocoa powder I like to use a dark cocoa powder, like Hershey’s Special Dark, because of the dark color of the cookies)
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt or sea salt
- 12 Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
Instructions
Ultimate Peanut Butter Cup Stuffed Chocolate Cookies
- Heat oven to 375 degrees F.
- Using mixer, beat butter with peanut butter and sugars until creamed together. Add vanilla, egg, and salt, and beat until combined.
- Add the baking powder and cocoa powder and beat to combine.
- Add flour and mix until flour disappears, so mixture is easy to make dough balls. Don’t overmix.
Assemble Peanut Butter Stuffed Chocolate Cookies
- Place 3-4 tablespoons extra granulated sugar in a small bowl, set aside.
- Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper. Take a tablespoon scoop of cookie dough and scoop onto parchment paper. Flatten dough with back of a measuring cup.
- Take peanut butter cup and place it in the center of one of the dough rounds, and top with with another of the dough rounds, pinching sides together and rolling sides of the dough together to make sure the cookies are sealed.
- Roll cookie dough balls in the granulated sugar to coat, and place it on your prepared baking sheet. Repeat assembling cookies with remaining dough.
- Bake cookies 8 to 10 minutes.
- Do not overbake, cookies are covered in thin chocolate cookie dough, so they don't need to bake over 10 minutes.
- Let cookies rest and set up on baking sheet for 5 minutes before transferring to cooling rack to cool.