Printable Recipe: Easy Peanut Butter Cup Tartlets Recipe

Easy Peanut Butter Cup Tartlets

This recipe uses miniature Reese's peanut butter cups to make fancy-looking Christmas cookies in no time at all. Plus, if you use pre-packaged peanut butter cookie dough from the store (instead of using the cookie dough recipe below), this cookie is a great one to make with the kids. They won't even complain about using up their Halloween candy. Probably.

Ingredients:
36 miniature peanut butter cups
1/2 C. creamy peanut butter
Easy Christmas Cookie Recipe 1/2 C. butter
1/2 C. granulated sugar
1/2 C. brown sugar, packed
1 egg, lightly beaten
1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
1 1/4 C. all purpose flour
3/4 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
Supply: Miniature muffin pans

Instructions: 1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.

2. In a medium mixing bowl, cream together peanut butter, butter, sugar and brown sugar with electric mixer on medium speed until fluffy.

3. Add vanilla, flour, egg, baking soda and salt. Mix well.

4. Roll cookie dough into 1-inch balls. Place balls in miniature muffin pans (they look best without papers).

5. Bake 8-10 minutes. Remove from oven. Immediately press one peanut butter cup into center of each peanut butter cookie.

6. Allow cookies to cool completely before removing from muffin pan. Makes about 3 dozen.

Tip: After placing the peanut butter cups in the cookies, pop them back in the oven for another 30 seconds or so the melt the chocolate slightly. This will blur the crinkled-chocolate edges of the peanut butter cups, making the finished cookie look more like a real chocolate tartlet.