Crunchy Peanut Butter Cups Cookies

mmmmm.. Check out those mini peanut butter cups!!

I love Crunchy Cookies.  I enjoy the chewy ones now and then, but I personally love crispy crunchy ones!  I have been experimenting with baking cookies lately, and I finally succeeded! This all actually happened while I was browsing random videos on Youtube, and I encountered an Alton Brown’s Cookie episode “Good Eats S3E6P1: Three Chips For Sister Marsha”. I have been watching his show since I was a little girl. He is one of my favourite celebrity chef! 

The following recipe was inspired by Alton, and I highly recommend watching that episode. It’s really entertaining and educational!  He makes three types of cookies- crunchy, cakey, and chewy.  I kind of deviated from the three recipes, just to experiment and add my personal touch. 

Yield: 36

Equipments:

Parchment paper
Baking sheets
Electric mixer

Ingredients:

2 Sticks of unsalted butter –room temperature

2 ¼ cups of all purpose flour

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon baking soda

¼ cup of sugar

1 ¼ cup of brown sugar

1 egg

2 tablespoon milk

1 ½ teaspoon vanilla extract

2 cups of mini peanut butter cup 

Directions:

1.       Preheat oven to 375 F

2.       Put butter sugar and brown sugar into mixer, whip at high speed (Cream together) 1 min-ish

3.       Back to low speed, add egg, milk & vanilla until all is combined

4.       Sift together flour, salt, and baking soda

5.       Slow speed again, slowly add the sifted ingredients

6.       Change back to high speed until all incorporated

** it is important to change/start the speed of the mixer on low because the high speed will rebound anything you add back onto your face and all over your counter, creating a MESS!

7.       Add peanut butter cup chips

8.       With your hands, roll into balls

9.   6 per baking sheet

10.       Bake for 10 mins

11.       EAT!

Bake, bake bake..!

Tip: You don’t have to bake all the cookies at once, what I do is bake one batch (which is 6 cookies) and put the rest in the fridge.  I take the dough, put it in plastic wrap, seal it up, and put it in the fridge.  So whenever I want warm, fresh cookies, just take the dough out, and bake it!!

Note: It doesn't have to be mini peanut butter cups, you can use chocolate chips!

Next time I will attempt Alton’s The Chewy! Looking forward to that!!