peanut butter cup replacement cookies

I've been waiting to publish this post! I didn't wnt to spoil the surprise of what would be arriving in the hub's package, but he finally got it, so now I can tell you! (It's the little things.) The husband asked me to ship him something and, what kind of wife would I be if I only shipped him what he needed? There are no shipments!...only care packages! I've also been really bad at sending homemade things to him...yeah, me, the baker..has only sent two homemade batches of cookies to my man. (Counting this one I'm about to tell you about.) This recipe is one of my FAVORITES! These cookies are so yummy and they are perfect to send to the hubs because he likes peanut butter and chocolate, but those items don't ship overseas well. Solution?

Peanut Butter Chocolate cookies!!!

The cookie in the picture is lop-sided, but I'm kind of known for my imperfections in baking and cooking. (Insert sheepish grin here.) These cookies require you to get your hands dirty...so I hope you're ready...

Smush together 3/4 cup powdered sugar and 1/2 cup smooth peanut butter. Smush is a technical term.

Then roll that mixture into 1/4 inch balls (malted milk ball size) and set aside.

Mix together 1/2 cup butter, 1/2 cup sugar, 1/2 cup packed brown sugar, 1/4 cup peanut butter, 1 egg, 1 tablespoon milk, and 1 teaspoon vanilla in your awesome mixer that your husband bought you :)

Then mix 1/2 cup unsweetened coca powder into that wet mixture. When that's incorporated into a chocolatey goodness, I slowly mix in my dry mixture of 1 1/2 cups flour and 1/2 teaspoon baking soda.

Then take tablespoons-ish of this cocoa cookie mixture and wrap it around the peanut butter balls prepared earlier. This part is messy, hence, no pictures.

rotate this picture, lady!

Then plop those cookie balls onto a baking sheet (I always grease my baking sheets). Do Not use a baking stone, as pictured above, your cookies will never bake! Then smash the spheres down into circles by placing the bottom of a drinking glass in sugar and gently pressing (or smashing) the tops of the cookies. Then put them in your preheated oven (oh yeah, I should have told you earlier to pre-heat the oven to 350) for about 8ish minutes or until you can scoop them off your baking sheets without them being mushed. The tops will start to crackle when they're done.

Cool them babies off

...and then place them in your husband's care package with his requested item and some Halloween Peeps!