Throw into your mixer peanut butter, Crisco, light brown sugar, milk, and vanilla in a large bowl.
Mix at medium speed with an electric mixer until well blended and then add eggs.
Beat with you 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.
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.
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)
Place sheets of waxed paper on countertops UNDER cooling racks for you to drizzle the chocolate over the tops of finished cookies.
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.
Dip a small spoon in melted chocolate and wave rapidly, but carefully, back and forth over all of the cookies.
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.
Enjoy now or freeze until solid in a single layer on a tray, then put in double wrapped foil/ziplocs.
Notes
*1- 18 oz. jar of cream peanut butter*chocolate chip and sprinkles are optional