Easy, no-mixer, goofproof peanut butter cup cookies baked in a muffin tin!! The peanut butter cups make them SO irresistible!!
Prep Time5 minutesmins
Cook Time13 minutesmins
Cooling Time15 minutesmins
Total Time33 minutesmins
Course: Cookies
Cuisine: American
Keyword: deep dish cookie, peanut butter cookies with peanut butter cups, peanut butter cookies with Reese's cups, peanut butter cup cookies, Reese's cup cookies
Servings: 15
Calories: 230kcal
Author: Averie Sunshine
Ingredients
½cupunsalted buttermelted
1large egg
¾cuplight brown sugarpacked
heaping 1/2 cup creamy peanut butternot ‘natural’ and not homemade, they’re too runny
¼cupgranulated sugar
2teaspoonsvanilla extract
1 ¾cupsall-purpose flour
¾teaspoonbaking soda
¼teaspoonsaltor to taste
15mini peanut butter cupsunwrapped
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350F and spray a 12-count standard-sized muffin pan extremely well with floured cooking spray or grease and flour the pan; set pan aside.
To a large, microwave-safe bowl, add the butter and heat on high power to melt, about 1 minute.
Wait momentarily before adding the egg so you don’t scramble it. Add the egg, brown sugar, peanut butter, granulated sugar, vanilla, and whisk until smooth.
Add the flour, baking soda, salt, and stir until just combined; don’t overmix.
Using a 2-tablespoon cookie scoop or your hands, form approximately 15 equal-sized mounds of dough and place one mound of dough into each cavity of the muffin pan. (Rather than using a second muffin pan for the remaining 3 mounds of dough, I baked the last 3 cookies on a baking sheet lined with a Silpat for 8 minutes.)
Bake for 12 to 13 minutes, or until tops have set and are pale golden. A toothpick inserted in the center should come out clean or with a few moist crumbs, but no batter.
Press 1 peanut butter cup into the center of each cookie.
Allow cookies to cool in pan for at least 15 minutes before removing them. If they have stuck to the pan, gently wedge the tip of a soft spatula into the muffin cavity to dislodge the cookies or gently rim with a paring knife.