Recipe(tried): Peanut Butter Cup Cookies

This recipe came from a Safeway grocery store magazine. These cookies taste unbelievable, the recipe makes a pretty thick cookie that is very rich.

PEANUT BUTTER CUP COOKIES
Source: Safeway magazine

1/4 pound (1 stick) room temperature butter or margarine
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
1/2 cup creamy or chunky peanut butter (NOT the natural variety)
1 large egg
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 1/4 cups flour
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 pkgs. (14-oz. each) Safeway Select Indulgence Peanut butter cups (these are miniature peanut butter cups)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a large mixing bowl with and electric mixer on high speed. Beat butter, sugars, and peanut butter until smooth and creamy.

Mix in egg and vanilla until blended
Add flour, soda and slat and mix on low speed until incorporated. Mix on medium speed for 1 minutes.

Spoon 1-inch balls of dough into ungreased 1 1/2-inch diameter muffin tins that measure 1/4-inches dep.

Bake for 8 to 10 minutes or until lightly browned.

Meanwhile, remove paper from 48 peanut butter cups. Remove cookies from oven and immediately press a peanut butter cup into center of dough until only the top shows.

Cool about 20 minutes. Removed cookies from tins by inserting the tip a of a sharp knife into one edge.