I whipped these babies up for a month end treat for my coworkers after getting two requests for homemade peanut butter cup. I was going to make those and realized I don't want to dirty my blender to blend the peanuts (lazy ass right here). In lieu I decided to incorporate peanut butter cups but instead to BAKE THEM IN THE MIDDLE OF CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES! Yeah. I did that. Ok so the recipe is adapted from
here because 1) the word easy was right in the description and 2) it DIDN'T have the words "secret ingredients" (who has time for that nonsense). The only change I made to the actually cookie portion was to cut the butter with some coconut oil because I've convinced myself coconut oil = HEALTH FOOD (even if it's a peanut butter cup baked into a cookie lol whatever) so here it goes!Also, the photos were for the 'gram and not taken with the intention to publish so please calm down.
Ingredients:
1/2 cup butter
1/2 coconut oil
2 eggs
1/2 cup white sugar
1 1/2 cups firmly packed brown sugar
2 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp each baking soda and baking powder
3/4 tsp salt
However many chocolate chips you want because I'm not the boss of you and won't judge you if you add the whole bag
Approximately 18 mini peanut butter cups
Steps:
1) Cream butter, coconut oil, sugars and eggs until well mixed
2) Add the rest of the ingredients (except the chocolate) and mix until combined
3) Incorporate your chocolate chips (I used approximately 1 cup)
4) Take about 1 tbsp dough and wrap it around a mini peanut butter cup
5) Add like 4/5 more chocolate chips on top for *~*aesthetic appeal*~*
6) Bake on parchment lined cookie sheet at 350 for 10 minutes
This might sound very vague but the truth is my kitchen has no rules because I'm a grownup and no one can make me only use unsalted butter in baking (10 blogger Angels just lost their wings) or measure flour by spooning into the measuring cup and levelling off. I don't have time for that unless I'm making croissants ok? Anyway, make these, share them, make friends, repeat.
