Peanut Butter Temptations

Tempting, indeed! Another 10/10, so tasty and easy! Was a bit worried they were underdone when taking them out of oven, but they turned out great, would not change the baking time. I would not recommend, however, doing these unless you have the min-muffin pan, as the ones I did on baking sheet (as suggested for alternative in original recipe) just looked odd in comparison--the cookie doesn't stay around the peanut butter cups.

Link to my YouTube video of preparation: https://youtu.be/OpRXedJZbNQ

Original recipe credit: https://www.midwestliving.com/recipe/cookies/peanut-butter-temptations/

Recipe below contains my modifications.

Ingredients:

1/2 c. unsalted butter, softened

1/2 c. creamy peanut butter

1/2 c. sugar

1/2 c. brown sugar, packed

1 large egg

1/2 tsp. vanilla extract

1 1/4 c. all-purpose flour

3/4 tsp. baking soda

1/2 tsp. salt

~48 mini Reese's peanut butter cups, unwrapped

Directions:

1. In the bowl of a stand mixer, beat together butter, peanut butter, sugar, and brown sugar until creamy and fluffy.

2. Beat in the egg and vanilla.

3. Heat oven to 350°F. Grease the cups of two mini muffin pans (if you only have one, you'll have to do two cycles/batches).

4. In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, and salt. Add to the mixture in the bowl of the stand mixer. Mix on low speed until just combined.

5. Shape dough into 1" balls. Place each ball in a cup of the mini muffin pan.

6. Bake 8 minutes, or until lightly browned on top.

7. Right after removing from oven, press an unwrapped mini Reese's cup into the center of each baked ball. Leave in pan to cool.