Easy Peanut Butter Cup Cookies
These Easy Peanut Butter Cookies are soft peanut butter cookies filled with rich peanut butter cups . A quick irresistible holiday cookie everyone will love .
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If you’re looking for a quick and easy cookie everyone goes wild for, these Easy Peanut Butter Cup Cookies are it! With just a few pantry staples and a mini muffin pan, you can whip up pure Christmas magic. These cookies are a must at my house during the holidays, they never last long! My family loves anything with peanut butter and chocolate, and these little gems disappear almost as fast as I make them. Festive, bite-sized, and downright irresistible, they’re perfect for Christmas parties, cookie exchanges, or gifting to neighbors and friends. If you love this recipe check out my Tiger Butter , another Peanut Butter and Chocolate holiday must have.
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What you Will love about these Easy Peanut Butter Cookies :
- Holiday Must have-These are the first cookies to disappear from the cookie tray .
- Beginner Cook Friendly- No matter your cooking skill anyone can make these .
- Quick Results – In less than an hour you will have a perfect bite sized cookie
- Perfect for Christmas Parties –Trust me , these will be the first cookie to disappear .
What you will need to make these Christmas Cookies:
- Peanut butter cookies mix
- Egg, oil and water according to the package
- Mini Reese’s Peanut butter cups
- Mini Muffin pan -Regular or Silicone
- 1 Tablespoon Cookie Scoop
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Let’s Make some Cookies !
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees and spray your mini muffin pans. Mix the cookie dough according to the packages directions . The dough will be stiff but that is normal .
Using a one tablespoon scoop form balls and place them in the muffin wells . Bake 10-12 minutes . Unwrap the Reese’s cups while they bake
Remove the pan from the oven and carefully place an unwrapped Reese’s cup in the center of each cookie.
Allow the cookie to cool completely in the pan before removing .
Tips for the best Peanut Butter Cup Cookie :
- Unwrap all of the Reese’s Cups and have them ready for the hot cookies .
- Allow the cookie to cool and the chocolate and peanut butter to set up or else you will have a messy cookie .
- If you have a silicone pan it will make removing the cookies easier .
- Do not over bake , you want these soft and gooey.
- For a more Festive look add sprinkles while the chocolate is hot and melted , or you can use holiday Mini Muffin liners .
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Ingredients
- 17.5 oz Peanut Butter Cookie Mix
- 1 large egg
- 3 Tablespoons Vegetable Oil
- 1 Tablespoon water
- 24 Mini Reese cups
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and spray mini muffin pans with cooking spray
- Mix the cookies mix with the egg, oil and water. Mix until combined
- Scoop out about 1 Tablespoon of dough and shape them into balls
- Place cookie dough balls into the prepared mini muffin pan .
- Bake 10-12 minutes
- While the cookies are baking unwrap 24 mini Reese's Cups.
- Remove the pan form the oven and press a mini reese's cup in the center of each cookie while the cookie is hot .
- Allow to cool in the pan . Once cooled remove from the pan .
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FAQs for Peanut Butter Cup Cookies
Absolutely, If you have a favorite cookie recipe go for it .
Yes , they can be frozen for up to 3 weeks in a sealed container . Just defrost at room temp before serving .
These are good for 3-4 days in a sealed container . After that they start to lose their freshness .
These are great !! I put Christmas sprinkles on top while the chocolate was still warm. Adults and kids loved these cookies.