Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups

I'm willing to bet you know about the 3-ingredient recipe for peanut butter cookies, right?

You know, a cup of sugar, a cup of peanut butter, and an egg?  I've used the recipe a dozen times, and it always comes out the same: really peanut-buttery and a crumbly-yet-not-falling-apart texture.  Everyone in my house loves them.

And since I've also been dying to use those melting chips to dip something in, I thought:

"DUDE I COULD TOTALLY MAKE CHOCOLATE PEANUT BUTTER CUPS FOR REALZ YO!"

...only Hetalia fans will appreciate the joke.

Anyway--

Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups

My only complaint with these is the amount of icing: I think it overpowered the chocolate, so don't be afraid to toy with the recipe depending on your preference in the peanut butter to chocolate to icing ratio.

Ingredients:

1 cup of creamy peanut butter

1 cup of sugar

1 egg

1 cup chocolate chips (you can melt more if you need to)

1/2 container of icing (any kind)

Instructions:

1.) Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

2.) Combine peanut butter, egg, and sugar.  Dollop spoonfuls of the dough into a lubricated muffin tin (I used butter), until the cups are halfway full.

3.) Cook for about 10-15 minutes or until golden brown.

4.) Pop the cookies... cupcakes?  Cookie-cakes out and allow to cool for about 5 minutes.

5.) Meanwhile, pour the chocolate chips into a microwave safe bowl and heat until melted.  I cooked them for a minute at a time, stirring in between until the mixture became smooth.

6.) Dip the tops of cookie-cakes into the melted chocolate.  Let sit and cool until the chocolate hardens.

7.) Optional: using a wide tip, frost the cookie-cakes.  I started in the center and frosted in a circular motion to make a pinwheel shape, but you can go gung-ho at it however you want.

These were really easy to make and everybody loved them, aside from the excess of icing.  You can adjust your amount if you need to, or nix it altogether.  Next time I make them, it will be without the icing, most likely.

It's a pretty much fail-proof dessert that appeals to peanut butter AND chocolate lovers, and are pretty hard to mess up, both in terms of appearance and taste!

ECHO out.