Recipe

Filled Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup Cookies Recipe

	Krumkake / All my dishes 2 years, 2 months ago My mother gave me this recipe almost 20 years ago, after a friend made some for her. These require a little extra effort, but if you like peanut butter and chocolate, you will probably be willing to go the extra step! Prep:30m Cook:11m Servings:36	Krumkake
	creamy filled cookies packed with peanut butter flavor

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Ingredients

Filling ingredients:

½ cup creamy peanut butter

¼ cup powdered sugar (you may need a bit more to make the dough easy enough to handle after it's chilled)

For cookie dough:

½ cup packed brown sugar

¼ cup white sugar

½ cup butter, at room temperature

6 ounces cream cheese, softened

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 egg

2 cups white flour

¼ cup cocoa

1 teaspoon baking powder

Finely chopped salted peanuts for garnish, optional (but really good!)

Frosting ingredients:

2 ounces cream cheese, softened

1 cup powdered sugar

2 tablespoons cocoa

enough half-and-half to make the frosting spreadable

Directions

For filling, blend together the 2 ingredients until smooth. Cover and chill for a couple hours to make handling it easier. While filling is chilling, prepare the cookie dough.

For cookie dough, cream together both sugars, butter and cream cheese until batter is fluffy. Add extract and egg, beating until well blended. Stir in flour, cocoa, and baking powder. Take pieces of dough and roll into 1” balls. Make a deep thumbprint in the center of the ball and fill it with about 1 teaspoon of filling. Carefully bring the dough around the filling, covering it completely, and gently roll it again to smooth the dough and fully enclose the filling. Place the balls 2” apart on a lightly greased cookie sheet. Bake at 350 degrees, for 9 to 12 minutes, until cookies are just barely browned on the bottom. Cool completely before frosting.

For frosting, cream the ingredients together until well blended. Frost each cooled cookie and garnish with some finely diced salted peanuts, if desired.

NOTE: I have also used a peanut butter frosting instead of the chocolate cream cheese frosting. Just omit the cocoa and cream cheese, add 2 tablespoons of melted butter and about ¼ cup creamy or crunchy peanut butter (add enough peanut butter to achieve the “peanutty” taste you like best – if I use crunchy peanut butter, I don’t bother with the chopped salted peanut garnish on the frosting).

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Comments

angelgal 2 years, 2 months ago said:
Oh boy...my husband is gonna LOVE this!!! ;)

shirleyoma 2 years, 2 months ago said:
Krum, this sounds so good, gotta make um!! yummmmm

marriage 2 years, 2 months ago said:
I like this recipe too. These cookies sound like they should be around through all of the holidays. Thanks for another great post.

notyourmomma 2 years, 2 months ago said:
Okay, Krum, now you have gone and done it. I'll have to make these for the husband. This is his all time favorite and even though it takes a little time, I'll have to make him a batch for his own. One of tyty's therapist used to make these each Christmas and gift us with a tin. My hubby would hoard them and eat every one!!!!!!

dvisscher 2 years, 2 months ago said:
Yum yum yum yum yum!!! I'm makin' these tomorrow!

kukla 2 years, 2 months ago said:
Oh MY!! Even my kid's know they have to surrender ALL of their Peanut Butter Cups that they get on Hallowe'en, over to me!! What a wonderful (sinfully so!) post...Thanks, Krumkake!

michellem 2 years, 2 months ago said:
Okay this one is new to me!! thanks they look so good! Im going to warm that kitchen up soon with these wonderful yummmy sounding little slices of heaven! Michelle

saavedra 2 years, 1 month ago said:
I am printing it off as I type this. The family thanks you KrumKake...:o) They will love these.

zena824 2 years, 1 month ago said:
These sound great too.... you can never have too many cookie recipes during the Holiday season and Im getting geared up for it...

debra47 2 years ago said:
I was just getting ready to post the same exact recipe. It is one of those cookie recipes that I made years ago and loved. For those individuals who love peanut butter cups this is the cookie for you!

elize 1 year, 5 months ago said:
MMmmmmm...I loove chocolate peanut butter cookies of any kinds, but these have got to be the best ones! I'm gonna make these somtime after dinner tonight and see how they taste! [I'm sure they will taste delicious] Thank you for the post KrumKake!!!

helewes 3 months, 4 weeks ago said:
Krum....the effort was so worth it...my favorite cookies!

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