Peanut Butter Muddy Buddy Cookies

By bloomysgirl

Ingredients

• Cookies:
• 1 cup peanut butter
• 1 egg
• 1 cup sugar
• Coating:
• 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips (6 oz)
• 1/4 cup butter or margarine
• 1/4 cup peanut butter
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 1/2 to 2 cups powdered sugar

Details

Servings 24

Preparation

Step 1

1. Preheat oven to 375. Mix cookie ingredients together.
2. Shape dough into 1-inch balls. On ungreased cookie sheets, place balls 2 inches apart.
3. Bake 10 minutes or until edges are light golden brown. Cool 2 minutes; remove from cookie sheets to cooling racks. Cool completely, about 15 minutes.
4. In small microwaveable bowl, microwave chocolate chips, butter and peanut butter uncovered on High 1 minute to 1 minute 30 seconds; stir until smooth. Stir in vanilla.
5. Place 1 ½ cups powdered sugar in 1-gallon resealable food-storage plastic bag; set aside. Place 12 cooled cookies in large bowl. Pour ⅓ of chocolate mixture over cookies in bowl. Using rubber spatula, toss cookies gently to coat. Place cookies in bag with powdered sugar; seal bag. Gently turn bag to coat cookies. Remove cookies from bag to cooling rack to set. Repeat with 12 more cookies and ½ of remaining chocolate mixture; repeat again until all cookies are coated, adding additional powdered sugar to bag as needed.