Itty Bitty, Teeny Weeny Peanut Butter Cup Blossoms

So, pretty much everything is cute when it's itty bitty, right?

I mean, baby clothes are just so dang precious...

puppies.  

mini cupcakes.

Size 2 clothes.

I mean, don't the small sizes always look better than the larger-ish ones?

Explain that to me.

Shoes also...I will see an adorable shoe on display and then pick put my size of the exact same shoe and the cuteness gets lost somewhere between the 6 and the 8.

Where does it go?

So, I saw these cookies over a year ago on the site 17andbaking.  I don't know if you have been to her site, but I totally want to be like her when I grow up!  She's this awesome teenage phenom who makes all sorts of fancy food.  Plus she takes amazing pictures and her site is gorgeous.

Her name is Elissa and she is the 17/18 year old that I wished that I was.

Let me give you a visual of me on any given day circa 1993...

Talking excessively on my Garfield phone and listening to "Shoop" by Salt N' Pepa while wearing Cole Haan loafers with white socks and unfortunately "scrunched" hair.

I was certainly not thinking about the ins and outs of Smoked Grape Rosemary Focaccia.

So, back to those cookies.

They have been on my bookmarked list for a long time now...I all but forgot about them until I was in a Sprouts Farmers Market and came across these:

 I know, right?!  Mini peanut butter cups!

I have also seen them at Trader Joe's in case you were wondering ;)

So, I bought them, because you sort of HAVE to buy teeny tiny peanut butter cups when you find them.   I am pretty sure that it's like a rule or something.

I decided to use Elissa's brilliant idea of mini pb chocolate chip blossoms and tweak it slightly into the form of

Itty Bitty, Teeny Weeny Peanut Butter Blossoms

 I used my own recipe for peanut butter cookies:

yields...um, a tremendous amount..like 20 dozen-ish

1 cup room temp butter (I use salted)

1 cup packed light brown sugar

1/2 cup granulated sugar

2 eggs

1 1/2 cups creamy peanut butter

2 1/2 cups AP flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

2 teaspoons vanilla

 reserve:

tiny pb cups

1/4 cups granulated sugar

Cream butter and sugars together on medium speed.  Add peanut butter, mix.  Add eggs and vanilla, mix until combined.

Slowly add dry ingredients.  Stir until just combined.

Chill dough for at least 2 hrs.

Preheat to 350

When dough is chilled remove it from fridge and roll into 1/4 teaspoon sized balls.  Roll each ball in reserved granulated sugar.

 Place each rolled cookie on baking sheet.  I fit about 60 on my sheet.

Bake 5 minutes until bottoms gets slightly golden and tops JUST start to crack.

As soon as they come out of the oven, quickly press pb cup into cookie.  They cool quickly based on their size.

Transfer to wire cooling rack until pb cup sets, approx 20-30 minutes.

Store in an air-tight container for up to 3 days.

People are gonna love these because they are totally cute and popable.

Making them is a bit repetitive, but they are totally worth it...

trust me, I'm an expert!

Also, don't forget to enter in the Ann Clark Giveaway..contest closes Nov. 5th 11:59 pm!

click here for printable recipe

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