Peanut Butter Cup Cookies

Submitted by coconutcream

"From the Quaker website"

 

• Ready In: 34mins
• Ingredients: 11
• Serves: 36

ingredients

• 1 1⁄2 cups brown sugar, firmly packed
• 1⁄2 lb margarine or 1/2 lb butter, softened
• 3⁄4 cup peanut butter (not reduced-fat)
• 2 large eggs
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 1 1⁄2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1⁄3 cup baking cocoa
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1⁄4 teaspoon salt (optional)
• 2 cups quick-cooking oats or 2 cups old fashioned oats, uncooked
• 9 ounces peanut butter cups, unwrapped and cut into quarters (about 35 miniature candies)

directions

1. Heat oven to 350°F In large bowl, beat sugar, margarine and peanut butter until creamy. Add eggs and vanilla; beat well. Add combined flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt; mix well. Add oats and candy; mix well.
2. Drop dough by level 1/4 cup portions 3 inches apart onto ungreased cookie sheets.
3. Bake 12 to 14 minutes or until cookies are slightly firm to the touch. (Do not overbake.) Cool 1 minute on cookie sheets; remove to wire rack. Cool completely. Store tightly covered.

Reviews

[She She]

These were really good. I made exactly like recipe but didn't have time to make drop cookies so I lined 9x13 and 9x9 pans with nostick foil and made bar cookies, and baked them about 25 min. They turned out just fine. If I make them again I will use chunky peanut butter maybe extra chunky. Thanks for great recipe.

 

[Mrs J B]

Made this recipe with a kitchen full of Chinese scholars a few weeks ago, and again today. I especially like the idea of using oatmeal in this recipe. The Chinese students don't enjoy super-sweet (last year, one student politely asked if she could scrape the frosting off a cake). The oatmeal offset some of the sweetness.