Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Peanut Butter Cups

Ingredients:


Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Cookie Dough:

• 1/2 cup unsalted butter
• 1/3 cup packed brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/4 cup creamy peanut butter
• 3/4 cup powdered sugar
• 2 tablespoons all purpose flour
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup semi sweet mini chocolate chips

Chocolate Coating: 

• 2 1/2 cups semi sweet chocolate chips, disks, or confectionery chocolate coating (either work)

Instructions: 
In a small sauce pan, heat the butter until melted. Whisk in the brown sugar until completely dissolved. Once the butter and the brown sugar is completely mixed up, let the mixture bubble for about 2 minutes. Remove the pot from the heat and whisk in the peanut butter and then the vanilla. This mixture will be liquidly. Let this mixture cool completely about 10 minutes in the fridge.

While the liquidly mixture is cooling, line the muffin tin with mini muffin liners. Melt 1 1/2 cups of chocolate chip in a microwave or in a double broiler. Drop 1 tablespoon of melted chocolate into a mini liner, then use a pastry brush to brush the chocolate from the bottom of the liner up the sides. Repeat this process, one at a time, to each of the other mini liners. Place in the fridge for 5 minutes if you used chocolate coating, and 20 minutes in the freezer if you used regular chocolate.

While the chocolate covered liners are in the fridge or freezer take the liquidly mixture out. With and electric mixer, mix in the powdered sugar, flour, and salt. Mix in the mini chocolate chips with a spoon. The chocolate chip peanut butter dough will be a bit liquidly so let it sit in the fridge for 10 more minutes.

Remove the muffin tin and the peanut butter cookie dough. Melt 1 more cup of chocolate, also adding the left over chocolate melted from prior use for lining the mini cups. Take 1 teaspoon of the cookie dough, roll it into a ball, and place into the mini muffin liner. Smooch the cookie dough down enough, so that when the chocolate is poured on top it is smooth and not lumpy. (My picture above doesn't show the cookie dough smooched down). With a spoon pour enough chocolate to cover the cookie dough, with a smooth finish. If chocolate coating was used put in the fridge for 10 minutes, if  regular chocolate was used put in the freezer for 15 to 20 minutes before eating.


If chocolate coating was used they can sit out without going back in the fridge, but if  regular chocolate was used they can sit out for a few hours at the most. Store the Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Peanut Butter Cups in the fridge for best results.