Peanut Butter Candy Cup Cookies

Here’s another family holiday favorite snack. By changing up the colored M&M’s, this can be made for any occasion. This recipe has been adapted from MyRecipes.com

You’ll need:

Peanut Butter Cookie dough
Mini Snickers Bars (24)
M&M’s

Prepare your favorite Peanut Butter Cookie dough.  This is mine:

1/2 c sugar
1/2 c firmly packed brown sugar
1/2 c margarine or butter, room temperature
1/2 c creamy peanut butter
1 tsp vanilla
1 egg
1 1/4 c all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda

• Preheat oven to 350º. Spray mini muffin pan with cooking spray
• Combine sugar, brown sugar and butter until light and fluffy.
• Add peanut butter, vanilla and egg; blend well.
• Add flour and baking soda

• Roll into 1 inch balls
• Place each ball into mini muffin pan cup.

• Bake at 350º for 15-17 minutes, until cookie cups are puffed and golden brown.
• Remove from oven; press mini Snickers into each one

• Return pan to oven for 30 sec. to melt the top of the candy bar.
• Remove pan from open and put 3 M&M’s on top of each mini Snickers bar.

• Cool slightly, remove from pan by popping out with a knife.
• Cool on wire rack.

With any extra dough, make some Christmas Peanut Butter Blossoms

• After rolling dough into 1 inch balls, roll in colored granulated sugar
• Cook for 9-11 minutes at 350, or until cookies are set and golden.
• When done, press a Hershey’s Kiss into the center of each cookie.
• Remove to wire rack to finish cooling.