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
- Heat oven to 375 degrees F.
- Beat butter, peanut butter, and sugars until creamy. Add vanilla, egg, and salt; mix until combined.
- Mix in baking powder and cocoa powder. Add flour and mix just until dough forms.
- Scoop 1 tablespoon of dough, flatten it, and place a peanut butter cup in the center. Cover with another dough round, seal edges, and roll into a ball.
- Roll each ball in granulated sugar and place on a parchment-lined baking sheet.
- Bake for 8–10 minutes. Do not overbake.
- Cool on the baking sheet for 5 minutes, then transfer to a rack to cool completely.