Whipped Shortbread with Peanut Butter Cups is an easy cookie recipe perfect for the holidays.

These classic whipped shortbread cookies topped with Reese’s Minis are sure to please the peanut butter lovers in your life.

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To make these easy shortbread cookies, I started by dumping some softened butter into a large mixing bowl with some confectioner’s sugar.

I used an electric mixer to cream the butter and sugar together until smooth.

It is very important to use butter for this recipe.

If you use margarine or another substitute the cookies will not turn out.

Then I added some all-purpose flour and cornstarch to the bowl.

I continued mixing with the electric mixer until a sticky dough formed and it was no longer crumbly.

I gently rolled the shortbread dough into one inch balls and placed them on an ungreased baking sheet.

Then I placed one Reese’s Mini in the center of each ball of dough and pressed them down into the cookie dough.

I placed the cookie sheet in the oven and baked the cookies until they were just starting to brown around the bottom edges.

Then I removed the cookies from the oven and used a spatula to transfer them from the hot pan onto some parchment paper to cool off.

These delicious cookies are rich and buttery.

If you are looking for a fun twist on the classic shortbread cookie then you need to try these Whipped Shortbread Cookies with Peanut Butter Cups!

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