Ingredients
PEANUT BUTTER SUGAR COOKIES
½ cup butter, softened
⅓ cup REESE’S Peanut Butter
½ cup sugar
½ cup brown sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
1¾ cup flour
½ teaspoon baking soda
¼ teaspoon salt
PEANUT BUTTER BUTTERCREAM
½ cup butter, softened
1 Tablespoon REESE’S Peanut Butter
3 cups powdered sugar
⅛ cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup chopped REESE’S Peanut Butter Cup Miniatures
CHOCOLATE DRIZZLE
½ cup HERSHEY’S Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips
1 teaspoon shortening
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- In a large mixing bowl, cream butter and peanut butter together until light and fluffy. Add sugar and brown sugar and cream with butter/peanut butter.
- Beat in egg and vanilla.
- Add in flour, baking soda and salt and mix until well incorporated.
- Place dough on a clean floured surface to a ¼ inch thickness. Use a cookie cutter, I used a heart shape for Valentine’s Day, and cut out cookies and place on a greased baking sheet.
- Bake at 350 degrees F for about 8 minutes.
- Repeat and continue to roll and cut out cookies until all dough has been used.
- Remove baked cookies from cookie sheet and place on cooling rack until completely cool
PEANUT BUTTER BUTTERCREAM
- In a large mixing bowl, cream butter and peanut butter until light and fluffy.
- Add powdered sugar, milk and vanilla and beat until well mixed.
- Frost cooled sugar cookies.
- Sprinkle chopped REESE’S Peanut Butter Cup Miniatures over the tops of the frosted sugar cookies.
CHOCOLATE DRIZZLE
- In a small microwave safe bowl, combine chocolate chips and shortening and heat in microwave in 30 second increments, stirring between each increment until smooth and melted.
- Drizzle over the tops of sugar cookies.
Original Recipes visit: Reese’s Peanut Butter Sugar Cookies @ chef-in-training.com