Peanut Butter "Snickerdoodles"

I grew up thinking that a snickerdoodle involved an actual Snickers, and a white cookie with cinnamon sugar was called something else. I have been educated, but the name still sticks. These are large peanut butter cookies with your favorite fun size candy bar stuffed in the middle.

Original recipe makes 24 servings

Ingredients

2 cups butter, softened
2 cups peanut butter
2 cups white sugar
2 cups brown sugar
4 eggs
4 teaspoons vanilla extract
6 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
24 fun size bars chocolate-coated caramel-peanut nougat candy
1/2 cup white sugar, for sprinkling

PREP

40 mins
COOK

12 mins
READY IN

52 mins

Directions

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Line baking sheets with parchment paper, and set aside.
Beat together the butter, peanut butter, 2 cups white sugar, and brown sugar in a large bowl, stirring until well mixed and creamy. Mix in the vanilla extract and eggs.
In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Mix the flour mixture, one cup at a time, into the butter mixture, and stir until you have a smooth dough.
Scoop up 1/4 cup of dough per cookie, and form it into a ball around a fun size candy bar. Set the balls onto a baking sheet at least 6 inches apart, and flatten each ball with a fork in a cross-hatch pattern, making sure the cookie dough is still fully covering the candy bar. Sprinkle each cookie with about 1/2 teaspoon white sugar.
Bake the cookies in the preheated oven until the cookies are slightly browned around the edges, 12 to 14 minutes.