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Delicious Peanut Butter Cup Cookies Recipe

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This Peanut Butter Cup Cookies Recipe is my favorite cookie recipe of all time!! My mom makes these every Christmas, and back in 2014, that year I had to make them since she had run out of time.  I didn’t realize they require so much work but the worst part is unwrapping all the Peanut Butter Cups!!!  

Peanut Butter Cup Cookies Cut open on a plate

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Now we tend to have these at Christmas time, but honestly, I could eat these year round!! It probably is safer for my waistline only to have them once a year.  You can drizzle these with chocolate and sprinkles, but most years, we get lazy and no chocolate. The Crisco peanut butter cookies make these treats amazing!

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Peanut Butter Cup Cookies Recipe Ingredients:

  • Creamy Peanut Butter– Creamy peanut butter works best in this, you could use crunchy peanut butter, but it won’t be as smooth with the peanut butter cups.
  • Crisco Shortening
  • Light Brown Sugar
  • Milk-Personally I use 2% milk for baking and everyday use, but any percentage of milk will work.
  • Vanilla
  • Eggs
  • All-Purpose Flour
  • Salt
  • Baking Soda
  • Peanut Butter Cups 
  • Chocolate Chips  
  • Sprinkles– I use sugar sprinkles on these; they add a bit of color and texture as well.

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How To Make Peanut Butter Cup Cookies:

Preheat your oven to 375 degrees.

Throw into your mixer peanut butter, Crisco, light brown sugar, milk, and vanilla into a large mixing bowl.  Now I love to drop it all in my  Kitchen Aid Mixer and let the mixer do all the work.  I don’t have the patience to mix and combine, and it still turned out great.

Mix at medium speed with an electric mixer until well blended, then add eggs.  

Beat with your mixer until JUST blended.

Combine flour, salt, and baking soda in a separate bowl, do dump all into the same bowl.  

Add the powder mixture to the creamed mixture at low speed.

Drop a rounded tablespoon into cups of mini muffin tins, filling about 3/4 full, you can roll into balls before placing in cups to allow for better shape.

Now I love my silicon muffin pan it makes the baking so much easier. I used my Silicone Mini Muffin Pan!! I have the worst luck with metal pans, I seem to burn everything in them so silicone pans are the way to bake for me when I can’t find glass pans.    

Unwrap all Peanut Butter cups and set them in a bowl

Bake at 375 for 8-9 minutes JUST until set and barely brown.   Cookies will be VERY tender and fragile at this point.

Immediately take unwrapped PB cups and press one into the center of each cookie.

Peanut Butter Cup Cookies inside silicone mini muffin pan

Allow your cookies to cool in mini muffin tin for approximately 5 minutes then pop out if using a Silicone muffing tin.

If using metal take the tip of a very thin knife (use a small paring knife) and gently run it around each cup to loosen)

Place sheets of waxed paper on countertops UNDER cooling racks for you to drizzle the chocolate over the tops of finished cookies.

Peanut Butter Cup Cookies Inside of with baking rack behind

Remove cookies from your pan and place cookies close together on a wire rack over waxed paper.  

Bake all of your cookies before moving onto the next step.

Melt chocolate chips in the microwave, stirring after 1 minute. 

Then microwave again at 15-second intervals until melted and smooth.

Peanut Butter Cup Cookies with chocolate drizzled on a wood table

Dip a small spoon in melted chocolate and wave rapidly, but carefully, back and forth over all of the cookies.  

Repeat this process until cookies are well decorated, then decorate with sprinkles if desired. (the crystalized sprinkles look really festive on these)

Allow chocolate to set, if you want 20 minutes in the fridge should work.

Whole Peanut Butter Cup Cookies on a snowman plate

Enjoy now or freeze until solid in a single layer on a tray, then put in double wrapped foil/ziplocs.

Inside Peanut Butter Cup Cookies on a snow man plate

Makes about 70 cookies.

How To Store Peanut Butter Cup Cookies

Store in an airtight container on the counter for up to seven days. You can freeze these, for up to thirty days in an air-tight container or a freezer zip local bag.

Storing leftovers properly requires the right tools! My preferred storage method is if the leftovers can be sealed in a food saver. If not, then an air-tight container or Ziploc bag for the fridge is the way I go. The air-tight container and a freezer Ziploc bag are the next best bet for freezing the leftovers. I also use a food scale to often measure leftovers into serving sizes.

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Amazing Peanut Butter Desserts To Try

  • No Bake Cookies
  • Peanut Butter Cup Cookies
  • Chocolate Dipped Peanut Butter Ritz
  • Peanut Butter Balls
  • Chocolate Peanut Butter Frosting
  • Homemade Peanut Butter Cups
  • Peanut Butter Pie
  • Peanut Butter Frosting
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What is your go-to holiday cookie?

Other Cookie Recipes To Check Out:

I love making cake mix cookies! I have a whole collection; the Smore’s one is amazing! You can check out the collection -> here!

  • Christmas Sugar Cookies– These cookies with homemade frosting are amazing!
  • Peanut Butter Cup Cookies-> Use a muffin pan and homemade peanut butter cookies, and stuff them with peanut butter cups!
  • Minty Chocolate Delight Cookies– Chocolate cookies made with chocolate and mint morsels, an amazing sweet cookie!
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Delicious Peanut Butter Cup Cookies Recipes

This Peanut Butter Cup Cookies Recipe is full of amazing peanut butter cookie flavor and a peanut butter cup! Made with muffin tins they are amazing!

Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword cookies, peanut butter, peanut butter cups
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes
Servings 70 Servings
Calories 179 kcal

Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 Cup Creamy Peanut Butter
  • 1 Cup Crisco Shortening
  • 2 1/2 Cup Light Brown Sugar
  • 6 Tablespoon Milk
  • 2 Tablespoon Vanilla
  • 2 Eggs
  • 3 1/2 Cup All-Purpose Flour
  • 1 1/2 Tsp Salt
  • 1 1/2 Teaspoon baking soda
  • 70 Mini Peanut Butter Cups
  • 12 ounce Chocolate Chips
  • Sprinkles

Instructions

  1. Preheat your oven to 375 degrees.

  2. Throw into your mixer peanut butter, Crisco, light brown sugar, milk, and vanilla in a large bowl. 

  3. Mix at medium speed with an electric mixer until well blended and then add eggs.  

  4. Beat with you mixer until JUST blended.

  5. Combine flour, salt, and baking soda in a separate bowl, do dump all into the same bowl.  

  6. Add the powder mixture to the creamed mixture at low speed.

  7. Drop a rounded tablespoon into cups of mini muffin tins, filling about 3/4 full, you can roll into balls before placing in cups to allow for better shape.

  8. Unwrap all Peanut Butter cups and set them in a bowl.

  9. Bake at 375 for 8-9 minutes JUST until set and barely brown.   Cookies will be VERY tender and fragile at this point. 

  10. Immediately take unwrapped PB cups and press one into the center of each cookie.

  11.  Allow your cookies to cool in mini muffin tin for approximately 5 minutes then pop out if using a Silicone muffing tin (Or if using metal like my mom, then take the tip of a very thin knife (use a small paring knife) and gently run it around each cup to loosen)

  12. Place sheets of waxed paper on countertops UNDER cooling racks for you to drizzle the chocolate over the tops of finished cookies. 

  13. Remove cookies from your pan and place cookies close together on a wire rack over waxed paper.  

  14. Bake all of your cookies before moving onto the next step.

  15. Melt chocolate chips in the microwave, stirring after 1 minute.  Then microwave again at 15-second intervals until melted and smooth.

  16.  Dip a small spoon in melted chocolate and wave rapidly, but carefully, back and forth over all of the cookies.  

  17.  Dip a small spoon in melted chocolate and wave rapidly, but carefully, back and forth over all of the cookies.  

  18. Repeat this process until cookies are well decorated, then decorate with sprinkles if desired. (the crystalized sprinkles look really festive on these)

  19. Allow chocolate to set, if you want 20 minutes in the fridge should work. 

  20. Enjoy now or freeze until solid in a single layer on a tray, then put in double wrapped foil/ziplocs.

Recipe Notes

*1-  18 oz. jar of cream peanut butter

*chocolate chip and sprinkles are optional 

Nutrition Facts
Delicious Peanut Butter Cup Cookies Recipes
Amount Per Serving (70 g)
Calories 179 Calories from Fat 90
% Daily Value*
Fat 10g15%
Saturated Fat 3g19%
Trans Fat 0.4g
Polyunsaturated Fat 2g
Monounsaturated Fat 4g
Cholesterol 6mg2%
Sodium 127mg6%
Potassium 104mg3%
Carbohydrates 20g7%
Fiber 1g4%
Sugar 13g14%
Protein 3g6%
Vitamin A 15IU0%
Vitamin C 0.02mg0%
Calcium 21mg2%
Iron 1mg6%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
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  1. Melinda says

    June 15, 2015 at 10:59 AM

    I’m pinning this to my recipes to make peanut butter and chocolate….yummy

    Reply
  2. Melissa Vera says

    June 22, 2015 at 7:56 PM

    These look so yummy.

    Reply
  3. Rosie says

    August 26, 2015 at 10:08 AM

    My only problem would be that I might be tempted to eat those peanut butter cups when unwrapping them – but it would be worth it to make these – so darling! and sound delish!!!

    Reply
  4. Christine says

    February 23, 2016 at 8:37 AM

    Wonderful recipe, pinning this!

    Reply
  5. Nicole says

    February 24, 2016 at 11:57 AM

    These are so delicious looking!! What a great idea to put a peanut butter cup inside of a cookie, I’m sure they are irresistible!! Pinning to make for our next family get together. Have a blessed week!!

    Reply
  6. Jeanne says

    February 27, 2016 at 9:07 AM

    Peanut butter! Anything and everything peanut butter I love!

    Reply

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