Fudge Filled Peanut Butter Cookies

This impressive (but really simple) cookie volition endure corking for the holidays. It consists of a sweetness peanut butter cookie shell, filled amongst a rich fudge filling. When yous showtime brand the cookies, the filling is soft plenty to pipage (or yous tin spoon it into the shell). However, later it completely cools, the filling is the consistency of a soft fudge. They are delicious, together with await therefore pretty!!!

1/2 loving cup butter (room temperature)
1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup dark-brown sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
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Cream the inward a higher house ingredients together until smooth, therefore add:
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1  1/4 cups all role flour
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
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Beat everything until really smooth. Shape dough into 1" balls (makes almost iv dozen) together with house each ball into the bottom of a mini muffin tin (ungreased) similar this:

Bake inward a preheated 375 oven for almost 10-11 minutes or until they await similar this:

After they are baked, honour something inward your kitchen that has a circular halt that yous tin usage to press downward on the middle of these HOT cookies (to brand the shell shape). I used the large rounded halt of my mortar together with pestle, but anything volition work. Just endure careful non to press therefore difficult that yous interruption through to the bottom. They should await similar this:

Let these cookies cool (in the pan) for 10 minutes, therefore usage a sparse (but pointed) paring knife to assistance yous inward lifting the cookie shells out of the pan (they come upward out pretty easy). Cool shells on a baking rack.

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FILLING

1 loving cup milk chocolate chips

1 loving cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

1 (14 ounce) tin sweetened condensed milk (not evaporated)

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

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Melt the chocolate inward a double boiler over simmering H2O (I simply used the microwave). With an electrical mixer, shell inward the sweetened condensed milk together with vanilla until smooth. Fill the cookies.

The fudge dries to the acquit on

after it is completely cooled.