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Reese's Peanut Butter Candy Chocolate Cookies

Teresa Ambra
Reese's Peanut Butter Candy Chocolate Cookies are the ultimate in a Reese's cookie experience. These chocolate cookies are loaded with Reese's Peanut Butter Candies. Chocolate and peanut butter just explode in this superb cookie. This is an excellent way to use up leftover Halloween candy. Plus, these cookies are perfect for holiday baking or Christmas Cookie Exchanges.
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Prep Time 25 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Total Time 40 minutes
Course Cookies, Brownies and Bars, Dessert
Cuisine American
Servings 36
Calories 182 kcal

Equipment

  • 2 large 18x26" cookie sheet pans
  • 1 electric mixer
  • 1 large mixing bowl
  • 1 wooden spoon
  • measuring cups
  • measuring spoons
  • 1 spatula
  • 1 cookie scoop

Ingredients
  

  • 1 cup unsalted butter softened
  • 2 tsp. vanilla extract
  • 3/4 tsp. baking soda
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
  • 2/3 cup cocoa
  • 3 cups UNBLEACHED all-purpose flour bleached flour toughens cookies and cakes
  • 1/2 tsp. salt
  • 15 oz. pkg. Reese’s peanut butter candies or miniature peanut butter candies divided use

Instructions
 

  • Measure out about 1/3 cup Reese’s pieces. Set aside.
  • Cream butter, sugar, eggs, vanilla, cocoa, baking soda and salt with an electric mixer.
  • Stir in UNBLEACHED all-purpose flour and Reese’s peanut butter candies.
  • Scoop dough with a ¼ cup cookie scoop and drop onto cookie sheets that have been sprayed with cooking spray.
  • Place about 4-6 Reese’s candies into the top of each cookie.
  • Bake at 350° for 12-15 minutes or until cookies test done.
  • Cool in cookie sheets for a few minutes before removing to wire racks.
  • Rotate cookie sheets on oven racks half way through baking time.
  • Cool completely.

Notes

NOTE: Be sure you do NOT use a dark pan to make these cookies or the reflection causes them to scorch on the bottoms, yet not be baked thoroughly.
 
Recipe inspired from the back of a Reese's peanut butter chip package.
 
© Can’t Stay Out of the Kitchen

Nutrition

Calories: 182kcalCarbohydrates: 24gProtein: 3gFat: 9gSaturated Fat: 5gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 2gTrans Fat: 0.2gCholesterol: 24mgSodium: 83mgPotassium: 84mgFiber: 1gSugar: 15gVitamin A: 173IUCalcium: 15mgIron: 1mg
Keyword chocolate, chocolate dessert, cookie, dessert, peanut butter, Reese's peanut butter cups
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