Peanut Butter Fun Filled Cookies Recipes

PEANUT BUTTER-FILLED COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°. In a large bowl, cream butter, peanut butter and sugars until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and vanilla. Combine flour, cocoa and baking soda; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well., In a small bowl, combine confectioners' sugar and peanut butter. Roll into 30 balls. Shape tablespoonfuls of dough around filling to cover completely; place 2 in. apart on ungreased baking sheets. Flatten with a glass., Bake 6-8 minutes or until set. Remove to wire racks. Dust with additional confectioners' sugar.

SPECIAL EDITION PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Line are large baking sheet with parchment paper.
• Whisk flour, baking powder, and baking soda together in a bowl.
• Beat butter, peanut butter, brown sugar, and white sugar together in a bowl using an electric mixer until smooth. Beat eggs, 1 at a time, into butter mixture, beating well after each addition, until smooth and creamy.
• Stir oats into butter mixture until incorporated. Stir coconut into butter mixture until incorporated; fold in chocolate chips. Stir butter mixture into flour mixture until dough is smooth.
• Roll about 1 tablespoon dough per cookie in your hands and arrange balls on baking sheet about 2 inches apart. Press each ball with a flour-coated fork to flatten dough.
• Bake in the preheated oven until lightly browned, about 10 minutes. Cool cookies on baking sheet for about 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.

FUDGE-FILLED PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 375°F (if using dark or nonstick cookie sheet, heat oven to 350°F). In large bowl, beat 1/2 cup peanut butter, the shortening, granulated sugar and brown sugar with electric mixer on medium speed until fluffy. Beat in egg until smooth. Beat in flour, baking powder and baking soda.
• Shape dough into 48 one-inch balls. On ungreased cookie sheet, place balls 1 inch apart. Flatten balls to 1/4-inch thickness by pressing with a fork in a crisscross pattern.
• Bake 4 to 8 minutes or until bottoms are golden brown. Remove from cookie sheet to wire rack. Cool completely, about 30 minutes.
• In small microwavable bowl, microwave chocolate chips uncovered on High about 1 minute or until softened; stir until smooth. Stir 1/4 cup peanut butter into chocolate until smooth. Cool to room temperature or until thickened.
• Sandwich pairs of cookies, bottoms together, with 1 teaspoon chocolate mixture. Let stand about 1 hour or until chocolate is firm.

CLASSIC PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES

Steps:

• Cream butter, peanut butter, and sugars together in a bowl; beat in eggs.
• In a separate bowl, sift flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt; stir into butter mixture. Put dough in refrigerator for 1 hour.
• Roll dough into 1 inch balls and put on baking sheets. Flatten each ball with a fork, making a crisscross pattern. Bake in a preheated 375 degrees F oven for about 10 minutes or until cookies begin to brown.

FLIP-FLOP FUN COOKIES

Steps:

• In 1-quart saucepan, melt candy coating over low heat, stirring occasionally.
• Meanwhile, unroll fruit snack roll. Using kitchen scissors, cut 12 (4 1/2 x 1/4-inch) strips from fruit snack roll. Remove paper. Fold each strip in half, forming a V shape.
• Dip tops and sides of cookies into melted candy coating; lift out with fork or tongs, letting excess drip off. Place cookies, coated side up, on cookie sheets. Before coating sets, carefully attach fruit snack pieces to make tops of flip-flop sandals, placing point of V shape near one end of cookie, and ends at other end of cookie. Place baking bit at tip of V shape. Let stand until set, about 10 minutes.
• Spoon brown sugar onto tray to look like sand; arrange cookies on brown sugar.

LOADED PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350˚ F. Spread the oats on a large baking sheet and bake until lightly toasted, 10 to 12 minutes. Let cool. Line 2 separate baking sheets with parchment paper.
• Combine the peanut butter and butter in a large bowl and beat with a mixer on medium speed. Add the brown sugar, granulated sugar, salt, baking powder and baking soda and beat until smooth, 1 to 2 minutes. Beat in the eggs, then with a rubber spatula, stir in the toasted oats, chocolate chips, coconut and peanut butter cups.
• Scoop 12 mounds of dough (about 1/3 cup each), packing the dough together, and arrange about 2 inches apart on the baking sheets. Lightly flatten with your fingers.
• Bake, switching the pans halfway through, until the edges of the cookies are set but still soft, 20 to 24 minutes. If any cookies are misshapen, use a spatula to press the edges back into a round shape. Let the cookies cool 10 minutes on the pans, then transfer to a rack to cool completely (the cookies will hold together best when fully cooled).

PEANUT BUTTER STUFFED COOKIES

Steps:

• 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
• 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!

FLUFFY PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES

Steps:

• Cream together shortening, peanut butter and sugars.
• Add vanilla.
• Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each one.
• Mix together flour, baking soda and salt.
• Add dry ingredients to creamed mixture.
• Shape into 1 inch balls and place on ungreased baking sheets.
• Flatten slightly with a fork.
• Bake at 375 F for about 8 minutes until golden. When you take them out, they will be a bit soft but leave them on the sheet for a couple minutes and they will continue to cook.
• Remove from the sheet and cool on wire racks.
• Meanwhile, in a mixing bowl, beat filling ingredients until smooth.
• Spread on one half of cool cookies and top each with another cookie.

FUDGE-FILLED PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 375°F
• In large bowl, beat 1/2 cup peanut butter, the shortening, sugar and brown sugar with mixer on medium speed until fluffy.
• Beat in egg until smooth.
• Beat in flour, baking powder and baking soda.
• Shape dough into 48 one-inch balls.
• On ungreased cookie sheet, place balls 1 inch apart.
• Flatten balls to 1/4 inch thickness by pressing with a fork in a crisscross pattern.
• Bake 4-8 minutes or until bottoms are golden brown.
• Remove from cookie sheet to wire rack.
• Cool completely, about 30 minutes.
• In small microwavable, microwave chocolate chips uncovered on High about 1 minute or until softened; stir until smooth.
• Stir 1/4 cup peanut butter into chocolate until smooth.
• Cool to room temperature or until thickened.
• Sandwich pairs of cookies, bottoms together, with 1 t. chocolate mixture.
• Let stand about 1 hour or until chocolate is firm.