Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup Cookies

Upon returning from Peru I was craving two things: baking and peanut butter. Although I did do some baking in Peru I'm not going to lie I missed the ability to go to a grocery store and get random ingredients for really creative recipes. And peanut butter exists in Peru however its not nearly as popular and thus very expensive. Thus my longtime baking buddy Lia came over and we made some serious noms. 

These photos do not do these cookies justice. Perhaps this will make you understand how good these noms are:

Ingredients

1 1/2 cups + 2 tbsp. flour

6 tbsp. cocoa powder

1/2 tsp. baking soda

1/2 tsp. salt

3/4 stick butter, room temp.

1/4 cup + 2 tbsp. peanut butter

1/2 cup sugar

1/2 cup brown sugar

1 egg

1 tbsp. vanilla

2 tbsp. milk

2 cups chopped peanut butter cups or minis

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and spray a cookie sheet with baking spray.

2. In a medium bowl combine flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt. In the bowl of an electric mixer beat butter, peanut butter and sugars until fluffy. Add vanilla, egg and milk. Add the dry ingredients slowly until fully mixed. Add peanut butter cups.

3. Roll into balls and bake about 10 minutes. Let set for 10 min before transferring to cooling rack. 

Enjoy with some milk :)