Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Cookies
Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Cookies are the ultimate peanut butter cookie experience. Soft, chewy peanut butter cookies loaded with chocolate chips are cooked to golden perfection. Then, chopped Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups are added as a final touch.
We love the classic chocolate and peanut butter flavor of Reese’s Cups, and with this recipe, we’ve added that combo to cookies! We love making these absolutely delicious cookies for special occasions or simply because we get a craving. They’re so good and so easy that there’s never a wrong time to make them.
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❤️ Why You’ll Love This Recipe
- Basic Ingredients: These delicious cookies are made with basic baking ingredients you can find in your kitchen or local grocery store.
- Easy to Make: These cookies are incredibly easy to make. They’re basic cookies with one added step that only takes a few extra minutes.
- So Soft and Chewy: Making these cookies with brown butter makes them incredibly soft and chewy, and the brown butter adds a nice touch of nuttiness that’s perfect with the peanut butter flavor.
- Classic Flavor: Every bite is loaded with chocolate and peanut butter flavors, a classic combination everyone loves.
🛒Ingredients
We’ve made this list to help you save time on your next trip to the grocery store. You can find the full amounts needed in the printable recipe card at the bottom of the post.
- Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
- Unsalted butter
- White sugar
- Brown sugar
- Egg
- Peanut butter
- Vanilla
- Salt
- Baking soda
- Flour
- Large chocolate chips
🔪 How to Make Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Cookies
This is a quick overview of the steps needed to make this recipe. You can find the full instructions in the recipe card at the bottom of this post.
- Cook the butter over low heat until it’s an amber color and has a nutty aroma. Transfer to a bowl and let it cool to room temperature.
- Mix the sugars into the butter. Then, mix in the remaining ingredients except for the Reese’s Cups, flour, and chocolate chips.
- Mix in the flour and fold in the chocolate chips. Then, use an ice cream scoop to add dough balls to a silpat or a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
- Bake at 350 until the edges are golden brown. Then, remove the baking sheet and immediately top the cookies with chopped Reese’s Cups. Cool completely, and enjoy!
🥄 Equipment
- Measuring cups and spoons
- Mixing bowl
- Baking sheet
- Parchment paper
- Wire cooling rack
🥫 Storage
Store these cookies at room temperature in an airtight container for up to a week. For longer storage, wrap the cookies in plastic wrap and freeze them for up to 2 months in an airtight, freezer-safe container or heavy-duty freezer bag.
If you freeze your cookies, bring them to room temperature on the counter before serving.
Serve With
Like any good cookie, these Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup cookies are perfect with a glass of milk or a cup of coffee or tea.
Their classic chocolate and peanut butter flavor also makes them a great dessert after simple meals like slow cooker smothered hamburgers, homemade corn dogs, or roasted chicken.
💭 Tips
- We recommend large chocolate chips for these cookies for an ooey-gooey texture and a bigger pop of chocolate flavor.
- Brown your butter on low heat until the solids have settled to the bottom of the pan and the butter has a nutty smell and amber color.
- Be sure to cool the butter to room temperature before making your cookie dough. This prevents hot butter from scrambling your eggs.
- Let the cookies cool completely before serving so the peanut butter cups have a chance to set after partially melting in the cookies.
⁉️ FAQ
Do you have questions about this recipe? Here are the answers to the most commonly asked questions.
Brown butter gives cookies a softer, more tender texture and adds a nutty, caramel-like flavor.
Brown butter is done when the milk browned milk solids have separated and settled to the bottom of the pan, and the butter is a deep golden brown with a nutty aroma.
The most common culprit for dry peanut butter cookies is using too much flour. To avoid this, loosely spoon your flour into your measuring cup. Never scoop the flour out directly with the measuring cup. This compacts the flour, and you’ll end up using too much.
🍽 More Recipes
If you love peanut butter, then we have some more recipes we think you’ll like. Try our old-fashioned peanut butter bars, Amish peanut butter spread with your biscuits for breakfast, or peanut butter cup shots for a fun adult treat at parties.
🧾Recipe Card
Want to make this recipe? Print the recipe card below, or pin this recipe, so you can find it later.
Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Cookies
Equipment
- Mixing Bowl
- Electric mixer
- Cookie scoop
- Baking sheet or cookie sheet
Ingredients
- 1 cup Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
- ½ cup unsalted butter
- ½ cup white sugar
- ½ cup brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 tablespoon peanut butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 1 ⅓ cups flour
- 1 cup large chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350o F(170C).
- Melt and brown the butter slowly and carefully.
- Pour the browned butter into a large bowl and let it cool to room temperature.
- Add white and brown sugar, mix with a spatula until butter is fully incorporated.
- Next, add egg, peanut butter, salt and baking soda, mix with spatula for like 30
- seconds until you have a slime-like consistency.
- Lastly add flour and chocolate chips and stir with spatula.
- Scoop the dough with an ice-cream scoop onto a silpat mat or a parchment paper-lined
- baking sheet.
- Bake for 12-15 minutes until edges are golden brown.
- When cookies are still hot, carefully place the peanut butter cups on top of the cookies.
- Do not touch peanut butter cups before they are all cooled down.
- Cool completely before serving.
Disclaimer
Any nutritional data I provide is an approximation and actual dietary information can vary based on ingredients and proportion sizes.
