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    Home » Recipes » Dessert » Cookies

    Peanut Butter and Jelly Cookie Cups and Blogiversary Giveaway

    Published by Melissa on January 31, 2011 | Updated November 14, 2022 | 98 Comments

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    It’s my blogiversary!! I’ve been blogging for three years now. The time has flown by. I have learned so much and have made so many wonderful friends. I have truly received more from blogging than I have given. I’m always amazed at how small the world has become.

    To say thank you to my amazing readers/friends I thought it was the perfect time to host a giveaway. CSN Stores is offering one lucky Barbara Bakes reader a $50 gift code to spend at any of their stores, including their luggage stores, furniture stores, or my favorite, their kitchen store.

    To enter the giveaway leave a comment on this post before Sunday, February 6th at midnight MST telling me what you’d like to buy at CSN Stores. For an extra entry Tweet and/or Stumble my giveaway (leave a comment for each entry). The giveaway is only open to residents of the US and Canada, and shipping charges may apply. Be sure your email address is included with your comment(s).

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    One of the wonderful friends I’ve made through blogging is my talented, virtually adopted daughter, Lorraine, Not Quite Nigella. Lorraine sent me a delightful cookie cookbook, Betty Crocker’s Cooky Book, for Christmas. It is a reproduction of the 1963 cookbook with all of the original recipes, illustrations and baking tips. I’ve had so much fun browsing through it and getting new ideas from the old recipes.

    One recipe, Peanut Butter and Jelly Cookies, caught my eye. We’re big peanut butter and jelly sandwich lovers at our house. Well actually, we’re Skippy Super Chunk and Smuckers Strawberry Jam sandwich lovers at our house. So I knew my family would love this old fashioned cookie.

    I wanted to add my own spin to the recipe and the Chocolate Peppermint Thumbprint Cookie Cups I made at Christmas came to mind. By baking the cookies in a mini muffin pan and creating a well in the center, I could increase the amount of jelly in each cookie. After all doesn’t everyone want more jelly in their peanut butter and jelly sandwich? It’s so hard to get the perfect ratio of peanut butter to jelly in your sandwich without having the jelly ooze out as you’re taking a bite.

    And so my Peanut Butter and Jelly Cookie Cups were born. If you love the sandwich, you’ll love the cookie!

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    Peanut Butter and Jelly Cookie Cups and Blogiversary Giveaway

    Prep Time10 minutes mins
    Cook Time12 minutes mins
    Total Time22 minutes mins
    Course: Cookies
    Keyword: cooking, food, recipe
    Servings: 2 dozen
    Author: Barbara Schieving
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    Ingredients

    • ½ cup shortening*
    • ½ cup peanut butter
    • ½ cup granulated sugar
    • ½ cup packed brown sugar
    • 1 egg
    • 1 ¼ cups all purpose flour
    • ½ teaspoon baking powder
    • ¾ teaspoon baking soda*
    • ¼ teaspoon salt

    Instructions

    • Mix shortening, peanut butter, sugars, and egg thoroughly. Blend all dry ingredients; stir into shortening mixture. Chill dough.
    • Heat oven to 375º. Using a mini ice cream scoop or spoon, drop a tablespoon of dough into each cup of greased mini muffin tins. Bake 10 to 12 minutes until edges are browned and crackled, the centers will not be completely set.
    • Remove the cookies from the oven and use the end of a thick-handled wooden spoon to make a small, deep well in the center of each cookie and fill with your favorite jam or jelly.
    • Transfer cookies to a rack to cool completely.*I decreased the soda to ½ teaspoon to adjust for my high altitude. I used Crisco Butter Flavored Shortening Sticks - already pre-measured for you!

    Stop in later in the week for a Peanut Butter and Nutella Cookie Cup recipe for World Nutella Day!

    Other great peanut butter cookie recipes:

    Cherie’s Snickers Peanut Butter Cookies Barbara Bakes
    Martha Stewart’s Peanut Butter Cookies Barbara Bakes
    Triple Peanut Criss-Cross Cookies Cookie Madness
    Soft Nutella Peanut Butter Cookies Amanda’s Cookin’
    Peanut Butter- Chocolate Swirl Cookies The Recipe Girl

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    1. Tracy

      February 04, 2011 at 8:58 am

      Mmm. I’ve been drooling over the John Boos cutting boards. A nice, big one. But which…?

      Reply
    2. Mardi@eatlivetravelwrite

      February 04, 2011 at 6:10 am

      Tweeted!

      Reply
    3. Mardi@eatlivetravelwrite

      February 04, 2011 at 6:09 am

      I have my eye on a mandoline (finally!) at CSN stores!

      Reply
    4. Mardi@eatlivetravelwrite

      February 04, 2011 at 6:08 am

      Stumbled!

      Reply
    5. shala_darkstone

      February 04, 2011 at 5:26 am

      Here’s my tweet – http://twitter.com/#!/shala_darkstone/status/33501243481665536

      Reply
    6. shala_darkstone

      February 04, 2011 at 5:25 am

      I stumbled this giveaway (my username is shala6).

      Reply
    7. shala_darkstone

      February 04, 2011 at 5:25 am

      Hi, I’d like to buy the Fangio Table Lamp in Antique Beige – 13012 from CSN Stores.

      Reply
    8. Beth

      February 04, 2011 at 3:15 am

      Great giveaway! There’s a lovely Amity Home quilt that I’d love to buy!

      Reply
    9. Ann

      February 04, 2011 at 2:55 am

      I love those p,b, &j cups. Delicious. I’d getting some cooking stuff if i won. I need a new food processor. I’d put it towards that.

      Reply
    10. Cakewhiz

      February 03, 2011 at 5:00 pm

      I am a big peanut butter and jelly sandwich lover which is why i am sure i would love these little cups. These would be great to serve during superbowl as well.

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    11. Mags

      February 03, 2011 at 2:26 pm

      I love this recipe!! How unique…. can’t wait to make it when the kids are in town.

      Happy Blogiversary Barbara!

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    12. Blond Duck

      February 03, 2011 at 1:59 pm

      Hope you’re staying warm!

      Reply
    13. Lori @ RecipeGirl

      February 03, 2011 at 12:21 pm

      These look like gorgeous little cookie cups! I’d love to buy a new crockpot!

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    14. Mary

      February 03, 2011 at 9:52 am

      These really sound wonderful. There are few among us who can refuse peanut butter and jelly:-). When it is presented in such a lovely package it becomes irresistible. I hope you have a great day. Blessings…Mary.

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    15. Amber

      February 03, 2011 at 9:46 am

      Congrats! I love your blog! If I won the CSN giftcard I would buy a set of new canisters.

      Reply
    16. Sarah, Maison Cupcake

      February 03, 2011 at 9:22 am

      Happy Blogiversary Barbara!
      These cookie jelly cups look totally more-ish, I would probably wolf down 3 in one sitting. 🙂

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    17. Valerie

      February 03, 2011 at 8:54 am

      I’d definitely put this towards finally buying my very own stand mixer!

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    18. Lorraine @ Not Quite Nigella

      February 03, 2011 at 5:35 am

      YAY MUM! Big congratulations on your third blogsoversary. I treasure our fabulous relationship and am so chuffed that you like the book 🙂 May there be many more blogsoversaries to come! And thanks RMW and Barbara for your sweet comments! xxx

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    19. Linda V @ Bubble and Sweet

      February 03, 2011 at 12:53 am

      Happy Blogiversary to you! I do love the sandwich and concord grape is my fav. These little cookies look delish.

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    20. Maria

      February 02, 2011 at 8:47 pm

      Love your website. Should I have 50.00 to go to CSN I would go straight to the gadget isle. I am a gadget lady.
      mrobin49@bellsouth.net
      Maria

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