Peanut Butter Cup Stuffed Ginger Cookies
We don’t do a lot of baking around here, but when I read the name of these cookies in the latest issue of EveryDay with Rachael Ray (and happened to have almost every ingredient on hand) – I took it as a sign. Plus it was a chance for me and my lovely assistant to take our new big work surface (Sir Peninsula) for a spin.
They’re basically a ginger cookie that’s wrapped around a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Miniature. The cookies turned out pretty good. A bit on the dry side alone, but perfection when dunked in milk. Clara gives them two flour covered thumbs up.
Here’s the recipe on Rachael Ray if you wanna give ‘em a shot yourself. What have you guys been cooking up lately? Any holiday stuff?
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At first I thought you were making Gold Fish cookies! Gotta tempt the bean with those so she wouldn’t eat all the batter, huh?
Haha, exactly. She needed to keep her stirring strength up with a snack.
xo,
s
I made these Saltine Toffee Bars over the weekend and…well, let’s just say they were gone less than 12 hours later. Whoops.
http://threemanycooks.com/recipes/sweet-treats/schools-out-for-summer-salted-toffee-chocolate-bars/
Haha, I do that too! If it’s here, it’s not here for long…
xo,
s
I actually just baked some white chocolate gingerbread cookies last night: http://mailboxjourney.clanbs.com/2011/12/18/white-chocolate-gingerbread-cookies/
Yum, those sound amazing!
xo,
s
Wow, in that top photo, Clara looks like Sherry’s “mini me” with short hair!
Haven’t tried this “Flourless choco gingerbread cookie” recipe yet, but it looks most promising: http://www.multiplydelicious.com/thefood/2011/12/chewy-dark-chocolate-gingerbread-cookies/
Mmmm, sounds awesome.
xo
s
We made these (http://pinterest.com/pin/141230138284207795/) with our Rudolph obsessed 3 year old this weekend. A total hit in our house and with the neighbors and pretty cute to boot!
So cute!!
xo,
s
Sorry to inundate you with more recipes, but this is my favorite cookie of ALL TIME. We’ve made three batches at our house already (they freeze well). It’s similar to the recipe you used from Rachel Ray, except with a peanut butter cookie instead. http://thecandace.com/2010/12/22/get-in-my-belly-christmas-cookie-recipe/
Clara is so adorable – I bet this Christmas will be so fun for her!
Haha sounds delish!
xo,
s
OOh! Those look yummy – they remind me of the cookies I make at Christmastime: peanut butter cookies with mini snicker’s bars inside. delish!!
Yesterday, I made white chocolate, cherry and oatmeal cookies along with traditional Christmas sugar cookies for my office.
We are trying the Trader Joe’s gingerbread mix this year to make cookies. We’ll glaze them with a lemon sugar glaze. We love a good gingerbread at Christmas!
We are also making our traditional White-Chocolate-Cranberry-&-Amaretto cookies this year, by popular demand. I get so many requests for the recipe that I typed it up so I can just print or email when asked for it. I wish I could post a link to this recipe, but I can’t remember where I found it several years ago. They are fantastic cookies!
Loving the kitchen progress and the cookie recipe! You are so ambitious right before the holidays!
My go-to Christmas cookie is these molasses cookies: http://thekitcheniscalling.wordpress.com/2011/12/15/day-2-molasses-cookies/ – they are soft and chewy and they stay soft and chewy for a week or two easily! Love em!
Mmm, those look delicious!
I made sugar spirals, frosted butter cookies, Rudolph gingerbreads, chewy mint brownie cookies, mint marshmallow brownies, and 2 batches of Christmas crack (sweet chex mix) — one peppermint and one dark chocolate and peanut. Around 600 cookies so far.
And that was just for round 1! :) I love this time of year, and my 19 month old is my best baking assistant! Except for the other day with the sugar spirals…she knocked over the bottle of red food coloring, and it looked like Dexter had been baking in our kitchen…
Haha- too funny about the Dexter spill. And 600 cookies- how cow!!!
xo,
s
I was cracking up thinking that you had molasses on hand but then re-read “almost every ingredient.” Ha! They look delish, and even better than the picture of Ms. Rachel Ray’s version if I do say so myself…
You can start your laughing again, because we did have molasses on hand – I think from a past cookie baking adventure, actually. Apparently it’s the only thing we use molasses for.
I think the ingredients we were missing were the peanut butter cups and I was a little short on butter.
-John
Have mercy, I was thinking the same thing! Really, John? You even had ground ginger? Who has ground ginger? (I searched high and low for this incredibly pricy spicy, bee-tee-dubbs.)
Haha, I actually had a little container of it in our spice collection! I think I just got lucky!
-John
Those look rich! I do love ginger cookies and peanut butter cups, so I bet it’s a yummy combo.
I bake sugar and gingerbread cutout cookies every Christmas – it’s a holiday tradition to invite friends over to decorate them with us.
http://trytoenjoy.wordpress.com/2011/12/18/christmas-cookie-decorating-time/
Nice new stools! ;)
I actually recently made some “stuffed” cookies myself. I tried out the “Oreo Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies” that have been floating around on Pinterest. Same concept as what you made, but just wrapping chocolate chip cookie dough around oreos. Talk about over-indulgence! ;) They were amazing!
OK, you gotta try these reindeer cookies made out of Nutter Butters! Nick and I made them together and they are awesome. Nuttin’ like Dads and Kids getting there holiday on. http://www.southernliving.com/food/how-to/how-to-make-reindeer-christmas-cookies-00417000076639/
Mmm, all the links/recipes/baking descriptions are making us hungry! Love it!
xo,
s
I’m so excited to see a recipe on YHL! The cookies look yummy and it looks like Clara had fun helping. :)
This year I made gingerbread men (and women) for the first time! http://www.thedesertabode.com/2011/12/15/gingerbread-men/
They were super fun to make (and eat!).
So cute!
xo,
s
I made Rachael’s Coconut Snowflakes this weekend and they were PURE heaven!!!! I truly recommend! Instead of stuffing 2 cookies with icing (my snowflakes were HUGE), I iced the tops and sprinkled coconut on top. Love Rachaels mag!!!
Mmm, all the food descriptions and links are making me huuungry!
xo,
s
If I didn’t love you guys SO much, this phrase “but when I read the name of these cookies in the latest issue of EveryDay with Rachael Ray” could have totally caused John to lose his mancard. :-) Love the blog though, so he can keep it primarily because of the cabinet door magic that he worked.
Haha- he’s the chef of the family! I love that he leafs through cooking mags! I’m a lucky lady.
xo,
s
Totally with you, Sherry! My man does all the cooking/baking as well. Keep up the good work, John!
I made these peppermint mocha crinkle cookies (which I then had to immediately give away because it became abundantly clear that me and the cookies were starting to develop a rather dangerous friendship):
http://savorysaltysweet.com/2011/12/15/peppermint-mocha-crinkle-cookies/
I have been baking a lot lately! I just bought myself a kitchenaid stand mixer (YAY!) and am happy to use it. I usually just make banana bread or choc chip cookies but recently I took a class with Joy from joythebaker.com and we learned how to make Buche de Noel. It is soooo yummy but it is a lot of work. Even with all the work I’ve made it two more times since the class and it’s always a big hit!
My first creation: http://instagr.am/p/XY_JD/
and my 3rd: http://instagr.am/p/ZfsR9/?ref=nf
It’s the homemade cocoa and peppermint whipped cream filling that gets me every time. YUM! :)
Yum! And congrats on the kitchenaid mixer! Those are so amazing looking!
xo,
s
I made the same cookies on Saturday! Took them to my church’s cookie exchange and they were quite the hit. Unfortunately, now there’s no left for me! :(
1. I just finished cookie WEEKEND with my family and promised I wouldn’t touch another cookie until next December, yet I still want to make these.
2. I just saw the same fabric as your living room curtains on some pillows featured over on decor8. Check it out: upper right photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/decor8/6537633563/, full decor8 post http://decor8blog.com/2011/12/19/stylist-elizabeth-demos/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+decor8blog+%28decor8%29&utm_content=Google+Reader.
Love those pics so much! Thanks for sharing!
xo,
s
I made oreo cookie balls (kraft website.) they were great!!
I have also made what I call pretzel treats – place several bitesized pretzels on a baking sheet (have to be shaped, not sticks.) Top with a Wilton white chocolate candy melt. broil for 1 minute or until candy is soft but not brown. Once out of the oven, top with a peanut m&m and let cool.
Love those pretzel treats! My mom sometimes makes them. Mmmmm….
-John
I’m with you, Sherry!
A husband who loves to cook and bake (and do the dishes) is like Christmas morning every day! I love my husband for it!
I made some yummy lemon sugar blueberry muffins this past week. I found the recipe on Pinterest and it turned out wonderful. I’m a bakers daughter so I love to bake and find different things to make. Can’t wait to have a little bean of my own to share the same joy.
My favorite cookie recipe is from an old Livejournal post: http://community.livejournal.com/yayfood/25567.html Its nicely allergy friendly (and diet friendly in general since its also vegan I believe).
Thanks again for all the links and recipes everyone! So much fun!
xo,
s
Those look good! My six year old daughter and I made gingerbread dough (to be made into cutouts later this week), haystacks and rice crispy treats on Sunday. We also baked up some chocolate chip cookies last week. Baking with children is so much fun!
I was busy this weekend making our fave Christmas cookies too. I made White chocolate chunk, cranberry oatmeal cookies, butter pecan cookies, peanut butter balls and oreo truffles! A couple of days before Christmas we’ll make sugar cookies and ice and decorate those for Santa. So much fun!
Clara’s hair is getting so long!
Hey Guys!
So weird…my hubby and I made these yesterday. My mouth dropped when I saw the title of your post. And I blogged about them too.
So good, right?
Haha- so funny! Great (hungry) minds must think alike!
xo,
s
I was baking from Friday night through Sunday night, about 800 cookies later, I have a very happy department at work. But that’s nothing compared to the 30 varieties, and thousands of cookies my grandma makes. “just the favorites” she says. I don’t have family here so I don’t do it for any other reason other than tradition. Ahhhh the holidays.
Wow! That’s impressive. You must be exhausted!
-John
Do I spy a new tea kettle?
Haha- good eye! It’s a white ceramic one I found super on sale (HomeGoods) and had to have it! You know me and white ceramic
animalstea kettles…xo,
s
Hungry Girl has this amazing cupcake recipe you might want to try. Just TWO ingredients. It is hard to believe, but it comes out perfect and oh so moist. It’s almost dense – like a cross breed of a brownie and cake.
- one box chocolate cake mix
- one can pumpkin puree (no added seasoning)
It makes 12 large cupcakes. I bought Duncan Heinz Devil’s Food, 4 boxes for $5 at Jewel. One can of pumpkin is less than $2. So about $3 dollars for 12 cupcakes… or 25 cents per cupcake… not bad!
Directions:
Mix until well blended and follow box directions for baking. These cupcakes are the bomb. The cake still rises and forms a nice muffin top. It’s wholesome and guilt free. About two hundred calories. I also tried these as mini muffins (shorten cooking time) and dipped them in chocolate (the kind that hardens for dipped fruit). They were a hit! Rest assured no one will know they have pumpkin in them. You can’t taste it at all.
My new favorite stand by.
Erin :)
Mmmm- sounds so good!
xo,
s
I love that you trusted her NOT to throw the goldfish into the cookie bowl- cause if that were my baby we totally would have been eating Peanut Butter Cup- goldfish cracker-Stuffed Ginger Cookies.
Haha- she was pretty excited just to hold on and stir to her heart’s content!
xo,
s
I love holiday baking! We just made super-easy homemade truffles (http://voyage-on.blogspot.com/2011/12/sweet-nothings.html) for gifts! They are awesome!
Merry Christmas,
E.
By the way, this year we are gifting our nephews these adorable dog-shaped kids knives, for when they want to “help” in the kitchen: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_1_13?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=kinderkitchen+dog+knife&x=0&y=0&sprefix=kinderkitchen
Totally looks like something that would be up your alley, when Clara gets old enough!
Fun!
xo,
s
oooh. as Rachael herself would say, “Yumm-O”!! I may just have to try these!
You probably already tried the “3-ingrediant” pumpkin bread from Katie Bower’s post, BUT what’s better than bread? COOKIES! I just made “3-ingrediant” pumpkin chocolate chip cookies. The best part was making them with our little man. Just 1 can pumpkin puree, 1 box spice cake mix, and a bag of chocolate chips…or in our case 2 partial bags ;) My baby boy had so much fun helping mix and it was pretty safe since there is no egg. And they were yummy! It only makes a couple dozen. Oh yeah, bake at 350F for 13-15 minutes. Then let them sit on the sheets for another 5 min. Delish! Happy baking…and happy holidays!
Mmmm. Sounds awesome.
xo,
s
So cute! And I think she’s going to stay a lefty – all the photos you’ve shown of her have her holding objects in her left hand!
I know right? That gal definitely favors her left hand all the time these days!
xo,
s
Cookies that I almost always make around the holiday time is dried fruits cookies by Ina Garten, I make some minor adjustments to the ingredients, based on what I have on hand and which ones are more readily available. They are so yumm!
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ina-garten/dried-fruit-cookies-recipe/index.html
my favorite ones ever are my mom’s recipe for rolo cookies, you put a rolo inside a chocolate cookie, then try to resist eating a dozen of them
INSANE – these look delicious! We made similar ones at:
http://www.hardlyhousewives.com/2011/12/peanut-butter-stuffed-cookies.html
Mmm, thse look delicious too!
xo,
s
We made these peanut butter cup stuffed ginger cookies as well! They were very tasty, but I agree – they came out a little on the dry side. I thought they’d be a lot chewier, less crumbly. Oh well, it’s a tasty recipe! The ginger cookie batter was on the mild side (flavor-wise), which was good for some non-ginger lovers at family events this season. Thanks for sharing!