PEANUT BUTTER MUNCHIES

Peanut Butter Munchies image

Provided by luvmybge

Categories Dessert

Time 56m

Yield 32 cookies

Number Of Ingredients 13

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar, packed
1/4 cup peanut butter
1 egg
1 tablespoon milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
3/4 cup powdered sugar, sifted before measuring
1/2 cup peanut butter
2 tablespoons granulated sugar

Steps:

Preheat oven to 350 degree F.
In a medium mixing bowl stir together flour, cocoa powder, and baking soda; set aside.
In a large mixing bowl beat together butter, the 1/2 cup granulated sugar, brown sugar, and the 1/4 cup peanut butter with an electric mixer until combined.
Add egg, milk, and vanilla; beat well.
Beat in as much of the dry ingredients as you can with mixer.
Stir in remaining dry ingredients by hand with a wooden spoon.
Form chocolate dough into 32 balls about 1-1/4 inches in diameter.
Set aside.
For filling: Combine powdered sugar and 1/2 cup peanut butter until smooth.
Shape mixture into 32 ( 3/4-inch) balls.
On a work surface, slightly flatten a chocolate dough ball and top with a peanut butter ball.
Shape the chocolate dough over the peanut butter filling, completely covering the filling.
Roll dough into a ball.
Repeat with the remaining chocolate dough and peanut butter filling balls.
Place balls 2 inches apart on an ungreased cookie sheet.
Lightly flatten with the bottom of a glass dipped in the 2 tablespoons granulated sugar.
Bake cookies in preheated oven for 8 minutes or until they are just set and surface is slightly cracked.
Let cookies stand for 1 minute.
Transfer cookies to wire racks; cool.