Peanut Butter Cup Cookies (Tarts)

By teresafu

I first saw these at a bake sale and was so impressed. You bake a ball of dough in a mini-muffin tin, bake, and press a Reese's peanut butter cup into it after you take it out of oven. You are left with a picture-perfect tart, receiving "oohs and aahs" and "how did you do it?" You could even use the refrigerated sugar/peanut butter cookie dough too.

Ingredients

• 36 reese's miniature peanut butter cups, unwrapped
• 1/2 cup peanut butter
• 1/2 cup butter
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
• 1 large egg, beaten
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 1/4 cups flour
• 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt

Details

Servings 1
Preparation time 15mins
Cooking time 25mins
Adapted from food.com

Preparation

Step 1

1 Cream peanut butter, butter, sugar and brown sugar until fluffy. 2 Add egg, vanilla, flour, baking soda and salt' mix well. 3 Roll into 1-inch balls (I use small cookie scoop) and place in miniature muffin tins(sprayed with PAM) or in mini cupcake wrappers). 4 Bake 8-10 minutes at 375°F. 5 When tins are removed from oven, immediately press 1 peanut butter cup into the center of the cookie. 6 Allow to cool completely before removing cookies from the tin.