We were given a large bag of mini candy bars last weekend and instead of letting them sit on the counter for the next month (it was a big bag and Halloween’s just a week away!) I decided to dig around and see what else I could do with them.
I came upon the recipe below and found a hit! It calls for Mini Snickers but I also tried a few with Mini Milky Ways.

This makes a lot of dough, so I ended up doing a couple of batches of regular peanut butter cookies while I was at it. I …read more

My friend Christey and her husband Peter have a wonderful weblog full of fantastic food and pictures at Fotocuisine.com. They recently posted a recipe and pictures for peanut butter chocolate chip cookies and I immediately emailed her for permission to post both – don’t they look amazing?
Check out the entry about the cookies on their weblog – I tried to write it up but felt I wasn’t doing it justice, so go see for yourself!
[image used with permission from fotocuisine.com]

These peanut butter cup cookies are another inclusion in my cookie tins this year and they couldn’t be easier:
~ Your favorite peanut butter cookie recipe or refrigerated peanut butter cookie dough
~ Unwrapped Reese’s mini peanut butter cups
Make your cookie dough and roll into about one inch balls. Either grease a mini muffin tin or line with mini liners (I chose to use liners since these are going into tins, otherwise I leave them bare) and plop each ball of dough in. Gently push in one mini peanut butter cup so the dough rises up around the sides.
Bake at 350 degrees …read more