Peanut Butter Cookie Cups

Source: Stephanie Cooks

Okay okay it is beginning to look like all I cook (and eat) around here are sweets.... but when I saw this on one of my favorite food blogs I instantly thought of Casey. Casey loves Reese's Peanut Butter Cups! Bake it in a cookie, and what is not to love? I, on the other hand, am not the biggest fan of peanut butter. It just seems to dry my mouth up and just make me want to chug a drink down. 

Well I made these about a week ago, and they kinda have been sitting there.... waiting for someone to eat them. I thought once Casey knew I was making these he would have ate these right up. Instead they are sitting in the pantry not being touched. Come to find out, Casey had to go out on a job, but before he left he had a few and thought they were delicious! Of course he didn't tell me this until after he was out of town, so I thought they were a disaster! Come to find out he is now craving them and can't wait to get home! Hopefully too see us and not just the cookies :)

The funny thing about this situations is ever since Casey and I have lived together, I have been the one to cook. Of course at the beginning I wasn't very good at it and maybe cooked chicken for every meal. Needless to say Casey just ate whatever I cooked and that would be that. He would never voice his opinion or make any kind of suggestions, or even tell me if it was good or not. Finally I put my foot down and I wanted some feedback.... negative or positive. Well it has taken a while but finally he will tell me his opinion, and sometimes he waits forever to tell me.... like now for instance... I finally hear he loves these Peanut Butter Cookie Cups after a week! Oh how I love that man!

 

 Ingredients:
1/2 cup sugar, plus extra for rolling dough
1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup Creamy Peanut Butter
1 large egg
2 tablespoons milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1-3/4 cups All Purpose Flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
Mini Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, removed from their wrappers

Directions: 

1.) Heat oven to 375 degrees F.
2.) Beat together sugar, brown sugar, shortening and peanut butter. until blended. Add eggs, milk and vanilla. Beat well. Stir together flour, baking soda and salt. Add to peanut butter mixture. Beat well.
3.) Grease a mini muffin tin. Roll dough into 1 inch balls and push firmly into muffin tins.
Bake 6-8 minutes, or until cooked through.
4.) While still hot, push a mini Reese's into the cookie. Place back in the oven for 1 minute.
Allow to cool in the pan 15-20 minutes, then remove to a cooling rack.

M & M Cookies

 

Well here it is... my first pregnancy craving- M and M Cookies!!! I am pretty sure out of all the cookies this recipe made, I ate about 99% of them in the matter of days. Nothing like yummy, warm, and soft homemade cookies fresh out the oven! Yum! I can't wait to make these with Madison (Baby in my belly) some day, I can just see her putting the final M and M's on the top of the cookies before they go into the oven..... umm ..and maybe a few for snacking on too!

 

Ingredients:

1 cup packed brown sugar

1/2 cup white sugar

1 cup butter (2 sticks)- softened

2 eggs

1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract

2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon salt

1 1/2 cups candy-coated milk chocolate pieces

Directions: 

1.)In a large bowl, mix sugar, eggs, butter, and vanilla thoroughly. Add flour, salt, and baking soda to creamed mixture. Blend well. Add 3/4 cup of M&M candies. 

2.)Drop dough by teaspoonful onto cookie sheet. Slightly push a few candies on top of each dough ball with remaining candies.

3.) Bake at 350F for 9 to 11 minutes, to your liking. 

* I made mine with the Mini M &M's because that is what I had on hand!

White Chocolate-Coconut Cookies

One of the many lazy days laying on the couch watching tv I ran into this recipe. Paula Deen was on and I had just turned it on as she was dipping cookies into white chocolate!!!! Umm... since I have been craving cookies this made it worse, and I just has to try them. These are also a great alternative to the regular old chocolate chip cookies I tend to make. If you like chocolate and coconut... give these a try! I changed the recipe just a tad because of the reviews I read before I made them; They turned out great!

Ingredients:

1 teaspoon baking powder

1 teaspoon baking soda

2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour

1/2 teaspoon salt

2 sticks butter, softened

1/2 cup packed light brown sugar

1/2 cup white sugar

2 egg

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 cup quick cooking oats

3/4 cup shredded coconut flakes

Garnish:

8 ounces white chocolate, melted

3/4 cup toasted, shredded coconut flakes

Directions:

1.) Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

2.) In a small mixing bowl, whisk together the baking powder, baking soda, flour and salt. In a large mixing bowl, cream the butter, white and brown sugars together until light and fluffy with a hand held electric mixer. Beat in the eggs. Add the dry ingredients and beat until just combined. Fold in the oats, vanilla extract and shredded coconut flakes.

3.) Form walnut-sized balls of the mixture and drop 2 inches apart onto parchment paper-lined sheet pans. Bake in a preheated oven for about 10 minutes until the bottoms of the cookie are golden brown. Remove from oven and cool completely.

4.) When the cookies are cool, dip them halfway into the melted white chocolate and then into the toasted shredded coconut flakes. Set them down onto parchment paper-lined sheet pans to dry completely.