Peanut Butter Stuffed Cookies
It's Peanut Butter and Peanut Butter time!! These Peanut Butter Stuffed Cookies are packed with peanut butter flavor and have a melt-in-your-mouth texture.
Servings: 22 cookies
Equipment
- 1 large ice cream scooper
Ingredients
Peanut Butter Filling
- 1 1/2 C creamy peanut butter
- 3/4 C powdered sugar
Peanut Butter Cookies
- 1 C Sugar
- 1 C light brown sugar - packed
- 1 C creamy peanut butter
- 1/2 C shortening
- 1/2 C butter - unsalted
- 2 large large eggs
- 2 1/4 C flour
- 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp kosher salt
- 1 C sugar - to roll the cookie dough in
Instructions
Peanut Butter Filling
- Using a medium bowl and a whisk or a hand beater, mix the peanut butter and powdered sugar until combined and smooth like dough
- Use a small ice cream scoop and scoop some filling into the palm of your hands
- Roll into a ball and place onto a small tray or plate
- Place into freezer while you make the dough
Peanut Butter Cookies
- Pour the 1 C of sugar into a medium-size bowl
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- Using a standing mixer, beat together the sugars, peanut butter, shortening, butter, and eggs until combined and smooth
- Using a large bowl whisk together the flour, baking soda, baking powder, kosher salt until combined
- Gradually beat in the dry ingredients into the wet until a dough forms
- Using the large ice cream scooper, scoop out some dough into the palm of your hand
- Make an indent in the center of the dough with your thumb and gently stretch the indent to make it wider
- Remove the peanut butter filling from the freezer and place a filling into the center of the indent
- Pull dough over the filling and mold into a smooth ball of dough
- Roll the cookie dough ball in the sugar
- Place onto the cookie sheet and place into the oven and bake for 13-15 minutes or until a light golden brown
- Allow cookies to cool before moving and enjoying with a LARGE glass of milk!