Peanut Butter M&M cookies

We almost always have M&M's in our house.  My girls love their M&M's.  I found a recipe for Rolo Stuffed Peanut butter cookies but figured I should probably try and make my way through our current candy stash before I buy more.  So peanut butter M&M cookies it was.  I have a friend who makes these and stuffs the cookies with snickers.  Oh, the possibilities with peanut butter and chocolate are endless and delicious.  The peanut butter cookie recipe comes from Crazy for Crust, which she slightly adapted from a Crisco recipe.   

This recipe makes about 2 dozen cookies.  You'll need:

• ½ cup softened butter
• ¾ cup peanut butter 
• 1 ¼ cups firmly packed brown sugar
• 3 tablespoons milk
• 1 tablespoon vanilla
• 1 egg
• 2 cups flour
• ¾ teaspoon baking soda
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• A heaping cup of M&M's, or about 24 Rolo candies or bite size snickers, your choice (unwrapped of course)

1. Preheat oven to 350°. 
2. Mix the butter, peanut butter, brown sugar, milk, and vanilla  until just blended. 
3. Then add the egg and beat until incorporated.
4. Combine and whisk the baking soda and flour together in a medium bowl. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix until just blended.
5. If using M&M's stir them in now and skip to step 5.  If you want to stuff the cookies create a dough ball (roughly the 2 tablespoons worth of dough). Place a candy in the center of each and roll so that the candy is in the center of the dough and does not show. 
6. Place the dough 2 inches apart on a baking sheet. You can make a crisscross patterns on each dough ball if you are stuffing the cookies.
7. Bake the cookies for about 8-9 minutes or just until set. Bottoms will be lightly browned and centers may look a little under baked. Cool the cookies on the sheet for about 2 minutes and then move the to a cooling rack to cool completely.