Peanut Butter Munchies

And on the eighth day, God created chocolate and peanut butter.

There is nothing more heavenly than chocolate and peanut butter...preferably in the same bite!  So when I ran across a recipe for something called a Peanut Butter Munchie that looked like a peanut butter cup in cookie form....I just couldn't help myself!  

This platter was full...

Yummy peanut butter insides!

Peanut Butter Munchies

Ingredients

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 packed brown sugar

1/4 cup peanut butter

1 egg

1 teaspoon vanilla

3/4 cup sifted powdered sugar

1/2 cup peanut butter

2 tablespoons granulated sugar

Directions

1. Stir together flour, cocoa powder and baking soda.  Set flour mixture aside.
2. In a large mixing bowl, beat together butter, 1/2 cup granulated sugar, brown sugar and 1/4 cup peanut butter with an electric mixer until combined.
3. 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.  (My mixer was able to mix it all up just fine!)
4. Form chocolate dough into 32 balls about 1 1/4 inches in diameter.  Set aside.
5. In a medium mixing bowl, combine powdered sugar and remaining 1/2 cup peanut butter until smooth.  Shape into 32 balls 3/4 inch balls.
6. 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.
7. Place 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheets.  Lightly flatted with bottom of a glass dipped in remaining sugar.
8. Bake cookies in a 350 degree F oven for 8 minutes or until they are just set and the surface is slightly cracked.  Let cookies stand for 1 minute.  Transfer cookies to a wire rack to cool.

Makes: 32 servings

Prep: 45 minutes

Bake: 8 minutes per batch

Stand: 1 minute per batch

Recipe from midwestliving.com

Picture from midwestliving.com