{"id":312173,"date":"2025-11-22T22:02:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T22:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/recipes\/category-a-b\/baking-category-a-b\/peanut-butter-cup-turkey-cookies\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T22:02:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T22:02:01","slug":"peanut-butter-cup-turkey-cookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=312173","title":{"rendered":"Peanut Butter Cup Turkey Cookies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>Peanut Butter Cup Turkey Cookies<\/b><\/h2>\n<p>\n      These cute little turkeys have a triple-shot of peanut butter: the cookie,<br \/>\n      the peanut butter cup, and a peanut butter buttercream.\u00a0 They might<br \/>\n      even make the real turkey jealous!\u00a0\n    <\/p>\n<p>Yield: 30 cookies<\/p>\n<p>Bake time: 13 minutes<\/p>\n<p>Prep Time: 45 minutes<\/p>\n<p>For the cookies:<\/p>\n<p>3 cups unbleached, all-purpose flour<\/p>\n<p>2 teaspoons baking soda<\/p>\n<p>\u00bd teaspoon kosher salt<\/p>\n<p>\u00be cup shortening<\/p>\n<p>\u00bc cup unsalted butter<\/p>\n<p>1 cup granulated sugar<\/p>\n<p>1 cup lightly packed light brown sugar<\/p>\n<p>2 eggs<\/p>\n<p>2 teaspoons vanilla extract<\/p>\n<p>1 cup smooth peanut butter<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For the frosting:<\/p>\n<p>\n      1 1\/2 cups salted butter, shortening, or a combination (recommend 1 cup<br \/>\n      butter and 1\/2 cup shortening)\n    <\/p>\n<p>1 teaspoon vanilla extract<\/p>\n<p>2 pounds powdered sugar, sifted<\/p>\n<p>6-8 tablespoons milk<\/p>\n<p>4 TBSP smooth peanut butter<\/p>\n<p>Red, Orange, and Yellow food colorings (gel paste preferred)<\/p>\n<p>For the assembly:<\/p>\n<p>\u00bd cup chocolate chips<\/p>\n<p>30 Reese\u2019s Peanut Butter Cups<\/p>\n<p>White chocolate chips<\/p>\n<p>Bake the cookies:<\/p>\n<p>\n      Preheat oven to 350.\u00a0 Line cookie sheets with parchment paper.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n      In a medium bowl, whisk the flour, baking soda, and salt together.\u00a0<br \/>\n      Set aside.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n      In a large bowl of an electric mixer, cream the shortening, butter, and<br \/>\n      sugars together until light and fluffy.\u00a0 Beat in the eggs and vanilla<br \/>\n      until combined.\u00a0 Add in the peanut butter and mix until smooth.\n    <\/p>\n<p>Stir in the flour mixture.<\/p>\n<p>\n      Scoop the dough with a 2-tablespoon cookie scoop onto the prepared<br \/>\n      sheets.\u00a0 Flatten slightly with the bottom of a glass. (Dip the bottom<br \/>\n      of the glass in flour if the dough is sticking.)\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n      Bake for 13 minutes, or until the cookies are golden and baked<br \/>\n      through.\u00a0 Let them rest on the cookie sheet for 2 minutes, then<br \/>\n      remove to a wire rack to cool completely.\u00a0 The cookies will look<br \/>\n      poofy out of the oven, and deflate as they cool.\n    <\/p>\n<p>Make the buttercream:<\/p>\n<p>\n      Cream the butter\/shortening until completely smooth. Beat in the vanilla<br \/>\n      extract. (If using all shortening, add 1\/4 teaspoon fine sea or kosher<br \/>\n      salt.)\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n      On low speed, add in the sifted sugar, about 1 cup at a time, alternating<br \/>\n      with 1 tablespoon of milk. Stop frequently to scrape down the sides and<br \/>\n      bottom of the bowl. After the last addition of the sugar, evaluate the<br \/>\n      consistency of the frosting before adding more milk. Beat for two more<br \/>\n      minutes, on a medium-high speed.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n      The frosting should be thick and not fall off of a spatula unless tapped<br \/>\n      on the side of the bowl. Adjust consistency by adding more milk or<br \/>\n      powdered sugar as needed.\n    <\/p>\n<p>Add the peanut butter at the end and beat until incorporated.<\/p>\n<p>Divided into three bowls and color red, orange, and yellow.<\/p>\n<p>Assembly:<\/p>\n<p>\n      Melt the chocolate chips and place in a piping bag.\u00a0 Snip off the<br \/>\n      end.\u00a0\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n      Apply the melted chocolate to the top of the peanut butter cup, and place<br \/>\n      face down onto the cookie (so that the bottom of the cup is face up).\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n      Press 2 white chocolate chips into each peanut butter cup for the<br \/>\n      eyes.\u00a0 Use the melted chocolate to add pupils.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n      Fit three piping bags with star tips, and fill with the red, orange and<br \/>\n      yellow buttercream.\u00a0 Starting with the yellow, closest to the peanut<br \/>\n      butter cup, pipe \u201cfeathers.\u201d\u00a0 Add a row of orange and a row of red.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n      Switch the tips on the red and orange frosting to #2 tips.\u00a0 Add the<br \/>\n      feet with orange frosting and smiles in the red.\u00a0\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n      [Note: To make only a dozen turkeys, make a \u00bd\u00a0 batch of buttercream<br \/>\n      (adding 2TBSP peanut butter), use 12 peanut butter cups, and you\u2019ll have<br \/>\n      18 big, delicious, peanut butter cookies leftover.]\n    <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peanut Butter Cup Turkey Cookies These cute little turkeys have a triple-shot of peanut butter: the cookie, the peanut butter cup, and a peanut butter buttercream.\u00a0 They might even make the real turkey jealous!\u00a0 Yield: 30 cookies Bake time: 13 minutes Prep Time: 45 minutes For the cookies: 3 cups unbleached, all-purpose flour 2 teaspoons [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":312174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135],"tags":[5886,12708,618,28432,13222],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-312173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-baking-category-a-b","tag-butter","tag-cookies","tag-cup","tag-peanut","tag-turkey"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - 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