A cross between a turtle candy and a peanut butter cookie in a fun new cookie cup shape.
Pillsbury challenged me to create a holiday twist on their Peanut Blossom cookie. The addition of a Milk Chocolate Caramel ROLO candy and a crunchy pecan takes the classic Peanut Blossom cookie to a whole new level.
My grandson helped me make the cookies. His job was rolling the dough in sugar, and unwrapping the Rolos. He did a good job rolling the dough in the sugar, but unwrapping the Rolos was more difficult. Not because he couldn’t unwrap the Rolos, but because he couldn’t resist popping the Rolo in his mouth as soon as it was unwrapped.
His mom and I thought it was pretty funny until he had quickly popped four in this mouth in a row. Then we had to put him in charge of counting out pecans.
Sometimes you need a simple, easy dessert that’s ready in a flash. These cookies are made with the Pillsbury Simply peanut butter cookie dough so they’re super easy and quick to make. The Pillsbury Simple cookie dough is refrigerated cookie dough with no high fructose corn syrup, artificial flavors, colors or preservatives. You get the taste of homemade cookies in a quick, convenient pre-made dough.
I ate more than my share of these cookies. The first ingredient in the dough is brown sugar, and it gives these cookies that chewy homemade cookie texture my family loves.
If you don’t have a mini muffin pan, you can bake them on a cookie sheet. Also, if you wanted to just bake up a couple cookies at a time, the Simply refrigerated dough gives you built in portion control. If you can’t find the Pillsbury Simple Peanut Butter cookie dough or prefer to make your own dough, Pillsbury also has a from scratch Peanut Blossom cookie recipe you could use.
Turtle Peanut Blossom Cookie Cups
Ingredients
- 1 package Pillsbury Simply Peanut Butter refrigerated cookie dough
- ¼ cup sugar
- 24 ROLO Caramels in Milk Chocolate
- 24 pecan halves
Instructions
- Heat oven to 350°
- Using a pizza cutter or a knife, cut each cookie dough round in half so you have 24 halves. Shape each half into a ball. Roll in sugar.
- Put each ball into a cup of a greased mini muffin tin.
- Bake 12 minutes until edges are browned and middle is set.
- Remove from oven and place a Rolo on top of each cookie. Wait three minutes for the Rolo to soften and then press a pecan on top of each Rolo, flattening the Rolo.
- Cool 5 minutes in the pan. Loosen the edges of the cookies and remove to a wire rack to cool.
Disclosure: This post is sponsored by Pillsbury, but all opinions expressed are always my own.
Bianca @ Confessions of a Chocoholic
Your grandson and I do exactly the same thing with rolos 😉 These look great – what a fun cookie!
Maria
Love how easy these are! And love your cute little helper:)
Barbara
Your grandson is a cutie, Barbara. I don’t blame him for popping the candy in his mouth! Nifty idea for cookies, too.
Rachael (Fuji Mama)
Too funny! I think that would happen with my girls too. Maybe I’ll have to try this delicious looking recipe out with them and see if they start popping ROLOs too?
Melissa B
Your cookie recipe looks so delicious!!
Your Grandson is very cute! =)
Becca @ Crumbs and Chaos
I love this fun twist on the PB Blossom! YUM!!
Maureen | Orgasmic Chef
Keep the cookies, I’ll take the boy. Isn’t he gorgeous! You’re a lucky gran!
Okay, the cookies look really good too. 🙂
Angie@Angie's Recipes
These are seriously addictive!
Katrina @ Warm Vanilla Sugar
Dang, these look perfect! Such a fun flavour!
Carol
These would be so much fun for my daughter and her boys to make-especially the little guy.
Speaking of little guy-your grandson is such a cutie patootie. Hey-he’s just checking the Rolos to make sure they taste OK…..it’s quality control……and a great job he was doing too. 😉
Thanks for the quick and easy treat-I wouldn’t mind a few of those right now.
Coco in the Kitchen
Very easy….maybe TOO easy?? YUM!
My Inner Chick
YESsssss!
This is MY kind of baking , Baby. Xxx
Laura @ Lauras Baking Talent
These are fun and look super easy to make 🙂 Thanks for sharing!
kelley {mountain mama cooks}
Love how easy these are and I’m with your grandson- I’ll take the job of unwrapping Rolo’s!!
Jersey Girl Cooks
Great idea. My kids would love to make these.
Jamie
Mmmmm I don’t know what I love more, the chocolate + peanut butter mix or the chocolate + caramel of the rolos. Putting it all together would have me addicted, like seriously. Add the crunch and flavor of a pecan and I’d be like your gorgeous grandson and just keep popping them in my mouth (not just the candy…the whole thing).
Stephanie @ PlainChicken
So easy and delicious! I do this with brownie mix. I will have to try it with the peanut butter cookies – YUM!
Megan I The Emotional Baker
Genius combo! Also, your grandson is adorable 🙂
Rosa
Addictive¨Those cookie cups must taste wonderful.
Cheers,
Rosa
Heidi @foodiecrush
Seriously? You’ve don it again Barbara. These would be great for my daughter to give a whirl and I love your little sous chef 🙂