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Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Cookies

Teresa Ambra

Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Cookies will rock your world! These fantastic cookies are filled with miniature Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups for an explosion of flavor in every bite. The chocolaty, peanut buttery flavors you love are wrapped up in these delectable cookies. Truly every bite is sensational.

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I asked my husband to hunt the grocery store aisles the day after Halloween. His mission? To find cheap candy that I could make into Christmas cookies and for other holiday treats last year. I probably had a full 55-gallon trash can full of candies. Maybe more. 🙂

I tried Baby Ruth Cookies, Butterfinger Candy Bar Cookies and these delicious Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Cookies. I made them for our annual Christmas Cookie Extravaganza 2019. We baked 5,800+ cookies and finished around the first week in December. It is finally January and I’m just now getting over all that holiday baking! We were exhausted baking that many cookies in about two weeks time.

Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Cookies turned out to be some of our favorites. The texture was really wonderful. I had to try a few times to get it right. The candies have so much oil from the peanut butter and the chocolate that I had to work to get the consistency correct.

Even so, these cookies were a real winner with everyone. They’re also delicious treats for tailgating parties, potlucks or Christmas Cookie Exchanges. Not to mention, being a great way to use up leftover Halloween candy. 🙂

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Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Cookies are spectacular.

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Chocolate and peanut butter flavors simply burst in these cookies.

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If you enjoy Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups you’ll love these cookies.

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Listen! Every bite will have you swooning. 🙂

Here’s what I did.

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I used these ingredients.

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Place two sticks softened butter in a mixing bowl (not three like pictured here). Add eggs, sugar, brown sugar, baking soda, vanilla and salt.

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Mix with an electric mixer until well blended.

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Add UNBLEACHED all-purpose flour. Bleached flour toughens baked goods. Add chopped miniature Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups.

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Stir really well to combine. Mixture will be on the dryer side.

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Roll dough into balls and place on cookie sheets that have been sprayed with cooking spray.

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Bake at 350 for 13-15 minutes or until done. Rotate cookie sheets on racks every six minutes while baking. My cookies took between 18-20 minutes to cook completely.

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Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Cookies are wonderful for tailgating parties and potlucks.

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These cookies made it into our annual Christmas Cookie Extravaganza 2019.

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Chocolate and peanut butter never tasted so delicious. 🙂

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Take a plate of these to your office and watch them disappear!

Here’s the recipe.

REESE’S PEANUT BUTTER CUP COOKIES

(My own concoction)

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Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Cookies

Teresa Ambra
Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Cookies are extraordinary. These delectable cookies include chopped Reese's Peanut Butter Cups so they explode with chocolate and peanut butter flavors. Wonderful for tailgating parties, potlucks or Christmas Cookie Exchanges. Terrific way to use up leftover Halloween candy. We like to eat them anytime we desire a chocolate or peanut butter fix!
3.65 from 20 votes
Prep Time 25 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Total Time 40 minutes
Course Cookies, Brownies and Bars, Dessert
Cuisine American
Servings 60
Calories 100 kcal

Equipment

  • 3 18x26" cookie sheet pans
  • 1 large mixing bowl
  • 1 electric mixer
  • 1 wooden spoon
  • measuring cups
  • measuring spoons
  • 1 sharp knife to chop Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
  • 1 spatula

Ingredients
  

  • 1 cup unsalted butter softened (2 sticks)
  • 1 1/2 cups brown sugar firmly packed
  • 3/4 cup granulated sugar
  • 3 large eggs
  • 2 tsp. vanilla extract
  • 4 1/2 cups UNBLEACHED all-purpose flour or possibly a little more, (bleached flour toughens baked goods)
  • 1 1/2 tsp. baking soda
  • 1 tsp. sea salt
  • 3 cups miniature Reese's Peanut Butter Cups chopped

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 350°.
  • Grease or spray large cookie sheets with cooking spray.
  • In large bowl, combine butter, sugars, vanilla, eggs, salt and baking soda.
  • Beat at medium speed with an electric mixer until fluffy.
  • Stir in flour and Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups with a wooden spoon until well combined; this may take 4-5 minutes.
  • Roll dough into balls and place on prepared cookie sheets.
  • Bake for 12-14 minutes at 350 degrees, or until lightly browned.
  • Rotate cookies on racks every six minutes through cooking time.
  • Let cookies cool in pan for 5 minutes.
  • Remove to wire racks to cool completely.

Notes

NOTE: These are also good baked as brownies. Spread into a 10x15” cookie sheet and bake about 30 minutes at 350°.
 
NOTE: Use the least amount of flour possible to allow the cookies to spread, but not overspread. The Reese’s Cups have a lot of oil/butter from the chocolate and peanut butter causing the consistency of the cookies to have a lot of oil. That’s why this recipe has more flour than usual.
 
NOTE: I was baking three racks at a time. I rotated pans every 6 minutes. My cookies took 18 minutes to bake.
 
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Nutrition

Calories: 100kcalCarbohydrates: 16gProtein: 1gFat: 4gSaturated Fat: 2gPolyunsaturated Fat: 0.2gMonounsaturated Fat: 1gTrans Fat: 0.1gCholesterol: 17mgSodium: 74mgPotassium: 25mgFiber: 0.3gSugar: 8gVitamin A: 109IUVitamin C: 0.003mgCalcium: 9mgIron: 1mg
Keyword chocolate, chocolate dessert, cookie, dessert, peanut butter, Reese's peanut butter cups
Tried this recipe?Let us know how it was!
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Drool, baby, drool!

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Yes, I could have eaten this many. 🙁

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Every bite of these cookies was so satisfying. Yum.

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Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Cookies

Teresa Ambra
Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Cookies are extraordinary. These delectable cookies include chopped Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups so they explode with chocolate and peanut butter flavors. Wonderful for tailgating parties, potlucks or Christmas Cookie Exchanges. Terrific way to use up leftover Halloween candy. We like to eat them anytime we desire a chocolate or peanut butter fix!
3.65 from 20 votes
Prep Time 25 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Total Time 40 minutes
Course Cookies, Brownies and Bars, Dessert
Cuisine American
Servings 60
Calories 100 kcal

Equipment

  • 3 18×26" cookie sheet pans
  • 1 large mixing bowl
  • 1 electric mixer
  • 1 wooden spoon
  • measuring cups
  • measuring spoons
  • 1 sharp knife to chop Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
  • 1 spatula

Ingredients
  

  • 1 cup unsalted butter softened (2 sticks)
  • 1 1/2 cups brown sugar firmly packed
  • 3/4 cup granulated sugar
  • 3 large eggs
  • 2 tsp. vanilla extract
  • 4 1/2 cups UNBLEACHED all-purpose flour or possibly a little more, (bleached flour toughens baked goods)
  • 1 1/2 tsp. baking soda
  • 1 tsp. sea salt
  • 3 cups miniature Reese's Peanut Butter Cups chopped

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 350°.
  • Grease or spray large cookie sheets with cooking spray.
  • In large bowl, combine butter, sugars, vanilla, eggs, salt and baking soda.
  • Beat at medium speed with an electric mixer until fluffy.
  • Stir in flour and Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups with a wooden spoon until well combined; this may take 4-5 minutes.
  • Roll dough into balls and place on prepared cookie sheets.
  • Bake for 12-14 minutes at 350 degrees, or until lightly browned.
  • Rotate cookies on racks every six minutes through cooking time.
  • Let cookies cool in pan for 5 minutes.
  • Remove to wire racks to cool completely.

Notes

NOTE: These are also good baked as brownies. Spread into a 10×15” cookie sheet and bake about 30 minutes at 350°.
 
NOTE: Use the least amount of flour possible to allow the cookies to spread, but not overspread. The Reese’s Cups have a lot of oil/butter from the chocolate and peanut butter causing the consistency of the cookies to have a lot of oil. That’s why this recipe has more flour than usual.
 
NOTE: I was baking three racks at a time. I rotated pans every 6 minutes. My cookies took 18 minutes to bake.
 
© Can’t Stay Out of the Kitchen

Nutrition

Calories: 100kcalCarbohydrates: 16gProtein: 1gFat: 4gSaturated Fat: 2gPolyunsaturated Fat: 0.2gMonounsaturated Fat: 1gTrans Fat: 0.1gCholesterol: 17mgSodium: 74mgPotassium: 25mgFiber: 0.3gSugar: 8gVitamin A: 109IUVitamin C: 0.003mgCalcium: 9mgIron: 1mg
Keyword chocolate, chocolate dessert, cookie, dessert, peanut butter, Reese’s peanut butter cups
Tried this recipe?Let us know how it was!

2 Comments

  • Jim

    December 21, 2020 at 8:54 pm

    I made these for our office Christmas Party. They are very good. Not too bad in the mixing stage except for my arthritis while stirring in the flour and Reese’s cups.
    They are very good. I like chewy cookies and these fit the bill.

    1. Teresa

      December 24, 2020 at 5:15 am

      Hi Jim. So glad you enjoyed the cookies. Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups make everything better!

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