Reeses Peanut Butter Cookie Cups
- 1/2 cups Butter
- 1 cup Creamy Peanut Butter
- 1- 1/4 cup Light Brown Sugar
- 2 Large Eggs, Room Temperature
- 1/2 teaspoons Vanilla Extract
- 2 cups Gluten-free All-purpose Flour
- 1/2 teaspoons Xanthan Gum
- 1/2 teaspoons Fine Sea Salt
- 1 teaspoon Baking Soda
- 48 Miniature Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, Unwrapped
- In a large mixing bowl using an electric mixer, cream together butter, peanut butter and sugar until smooth.
- Beat in eggs one at a time then mix in vanilla extract.
- In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, xanthan gum, salt and baking soda.
- With the mixer running on low-speed, add the dry ingredients into the creamed mixture a little at a time.
- Scrape down the sides of the bowl to make sure its all incorporated.
- Form dough into a ball and transfer dough to a piece of plastic wrap.
- Wrap tightly and refrigerate for 1 hour.
- Preheat oven to 350 F and spray your mini muffin tins with non-stick spray.
- Recipe makes 48 cookies so if you have enough tins to make them all at once, do so.
- Otherwise, make them in batches.
- Fill each cup with 1 tablespoon of dough and bake for 10 minutes.
- Remove from oven.
- Immediately press a Reeses peanut butter cup into the center of each cookie cup so that the dough surrounds the candy.
- Let cookies cool completely in pan before removing.
- Trying to remove the cookie cups while warm may cause the cookie to fall apart.
- Serve as soon as the cookies cool (or as long as you can wait).
- The chocolate will still be slightly warm.
- Makes 4 dozen cookies.
butter, peanut butter, light brown sugar, eggs, vanilla, flour, xanthan gum, salt, baking soda, butter
Taken from tastykitchen.com/recipes/special-dietary-needs/gluten-free/reesee28099s-peanut-butter-cookie-cups/ (may not work)