Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Cup Cookies
Peanut butter chocolate chip cookies, with a whole peanut butter cup melted into the top right after baking. Yum!
Prep Time10 minutes mins
Cook Time12 minutes mins
Cooling Time10 minutes mins
Total Time32 minutes mins
Servings: 16 cookies
Author: Vicki @ Passionate Baker
- 220 g plain flour
- 3 tsp baking powder
- 113 g salted butter, at room temp
- 180 g peanut butter
- 100 g granulated sugar
- 100 g light brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 150 g dark chocolate, chopped
- 16 Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
Preheat the oven to 170°C & line baking sheets with parchment paper.
In a medium bowl mix the flour with the baking powder. Set aside.
In a large bowl, with the use of an electric mixer, beat the butter, peanut butter & sugars until light & fluffy. Beat in the egg & the vanilla.
Slowly add the dry ingredients into the mix, beating on a slow speed until a dough ball forms.
Using your hands, add the chocolate chunks into the mix. Once combined, divide the dough up into 16 equal balls of dough - about 56g each - and place onto the prepared baking trays. Before placing in the oven, flatten each ball down so that it forms a rough disk shape.
Bake the cookies in the oven for 9 minutes. Remove the cookies from the oven & immediately press a peanut butter cup into the centre of each cookie, then place back into the oven for a further 3 minutes.
Remove the cookies from the oven & allow to cool for 10 minutes on the baking sheet before being transferred to a wire rack to cool completely.