Reese’s Peanut Butter Cookies Cups
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These Reese’s Peanut Butter Cookie Cups are peanut butter cookies stuffed with a mini Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup and frosted with chocolate buttercream.
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Equipment
- Mixer
- mini muffin tin
- piping bags for frosting
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- pinch of salt
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ cup shortening
- ½ teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- ½ cup light brown sugar
- 1 egg
- ½ cup creamy peanut butter
- 1 recipe for Chocolate Buttercream
- 1 package Reese's Mini Peanut Butter Cups unwrapped
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. and spray a mini muffin tin with cooking spray.
- In a small mixing bowl, whisk together the flour, salt and baking soda.
- In a mixing bowl, cream the shortening, vanilla, granulated and light brown sugars until light and fluffy.
- Add the egg and mix thoroughly, scraping down the sides of the bowl.
- Mix in the peanut butter.
- Add the dry ingredients and mix till blended.
- Roll two teaspoons of dough into a ball place into one of the mini muffin cups and press down slightly.
- Bake for 12 minutes.
- Place one mini Reese's into each cookie cup and allow cookies to cool in the muffin tin for 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack.
- Cool completely before frosting with the Chocolate Buttercream
Nutrition
Serving: 1g | Calories: 91kcal | Carbohydrates: 11g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 5g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 5mg | Sodium: 50mg | Potassium: 35mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 6g | Vitamin A: 7IU | Calcium: 6mg | Iron: 1mg
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