When I set out to make peanut butter cup cookies, I couldn't decide between leaving mini peanut butter cups whole and placing in the center of gluten free peanut butter cookies or creating peanut butter cookies with chopped peanut butter cup pieces running throughout.

So, I tried both ways!

Much to my surprise, I preferred the mini peanut butter cups in the center of mini peanut butter cookies. Though, dark chocolate peanut butter cups would have really hit it out of the park for me- these milk chocolate treats were hard to resist too!

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To Chill or Not to Chill

Most recipes recommend chilling cookie dough for at least one hour. I often chill cookie dough before baking. This allows the dry ingredients to absorb moisture from the wet ingredients. It will also lead to less spreading when the cookies are baked. For this recipe, I recommend chilling the cookie dough for at least 30 minutes.

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Tip: Place a small strip of parchment paper underneath each cookie dough ball in the mini muffin pan. This will make these treats super easy to remove!

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Ingredients in Gluten Free Peanut Butter Cup Cookies

• Butter
• Brown Sugar
• Sugar
• Vanilla
• Peanut Butter
• One Egg + One Egg Yolk
• Baking Soda
• Salt
• Gluten Free Flour Blend
• Reese's Mini Peanut Butter Cups

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Steps to Make Gluten Free Peanut Butter Cup Cookies

1. First, make the dough. In a large mixing bowl, cream the butter, brown sugar, and sugar. Then, beat in the vanilla, peanut butter, egg, and egg yolk. Next, beat in the baking soda, salt, and gluten free flour blend.
2. Next, cover and refrigerate the dough for at least 30 minutes. This will allow the dry ingredients to absorb moisture from the wet ingredients.
3. Then, scoop, roll, and bake the cookies. Grease a mini muffin pan. If desired, add small strips of parchment paper into each well. Next, scoop about 1 Tbsp. of dough and roll into a ball. Place into each mini muffin well. Bake for 9-12 minutes. While baking, unwrap the peanut butter cups.
4. Add the peanut butter cups. Immediately after removing from the oven, place a mini peanut butter cup into the center of each cookie and press down. Then, allow the cookies to cool before removing from the muffin tin.
5. Enjoy! Delicious on their own, but you can add a chocolate or peanut butter drizzle too!

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Who invented Reese's Peanut Butter Cups?

The most famous peanut butter cups were invented by Harry Burnett Reese in 1928. Harry was a former employee of The Hershey Company, where he managed a dairy farm near Hershey, Pennsylvania. He later started the H.B. Reese Candy Company in 1923. Harry created "penny cups" after hearing about a large demand for chocolate and peanut butter candies. The Hershey Company supplied the chocolate to Reese for years before eventually buying Reese's in 1963.

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