These cookies are a bonifide HIT with anyone who eats them.  I’ve been making them for years and years now, since I first saw them in a magazine I subscribed to ages ago.

No one ever believes how incredibly easy these are.  There are only *2 ingredients* if you use the cookie mix.  You can, of course, make your own peanut butter cookie recipe and use that, but I have found the pouches of PB cookie mix to be almost as good as home made.

• 1 pouch peanut butter cookie mix
• 24 mini peanut butter cups

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Mix cookie mix as directed on package. Unwrap peanut butter cups, making sure to remove the fluted paper it’s wrapped in.

Form dough into 1 1/2-inch balls and place dough balls in muffin pan.  Bake for 11-13 minutes; remove from oven and press one mini peanut butter cup in the center of each cookie.  Let cool completely and remove from pan.

Note:  When cookie cools completely, candy center will be solid, however, many people who have made this tell me it’s scrumptious when the candy center is ooey and gooey when eaten lukewarm.