Reese’s Peanut Butter Cookies

One of our family’s favorite cookie recipes is a peanut butter cookie with a Reese’s peanut butter cup in the middle. If you like chocolate and peanut butter, you’ll love these cookies.

Ingredients

½ cup butter
½ cup chunky peanut butter
1 ¼ cup flour
½ cup sugar
½ cup packed brown sugar
1 egg
½ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon vanilla (Mexican vanilla is best)
sugar (to roll dough in before baking)
unwrapped peanut butter cups (large or small; 1 for each cookie)

Directions

Heat oven to 375º.

In a mixing bowl beat butter and peanut butter with an electric mixer for a minute or so. Add ½ cup of the flour, the sugars, egg, baking soda, baking powder, and vanilla. Beat till thoroughly combined. Beat in remaining flour.

Shape dough into 2-inch balls. We use the Pampered Chef large scoop. Roll in sugar. Place a couple inches apart on an ungreased cookie sheet. We use a Pampered Chef baking stone.

Bake in a 375º oven for 7 to 9 minutes or till bottoms are lightly browned.

Remove from oven and with cookies still on the cookie sheet, place unwrapped peanut butter cups in center of cookies, pushing down firmly.

After a few minutes, remove the cookies to cool on a wire rack.

Once the chocolate of the peanut butter cup has melted, use a toothpick to smooth out the jagged edges of the peanut butter cup chocolate.

Makes a little more than a dozen, depending on how large you make the cookies.