Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Cookie Recipe (2024)

by The 36th Avenue

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This is the perfect gift!

Last month my kid’s school principal got transferred to a new School.

I have to admit that we were all heart broken and we still are.

That man is a hero!

Anyways, we made for him these cookies, you are going to love the recipe!

Reese’sPeanut Butter Cup Chocolate Chip Cookies

Reese’sPeanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

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Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Cookie Recipe

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Author: Desiree Campbell

Ingredients

  • 1 Cup { 2 sticks } butter, softened.
  • ¾ Cup Granulated Sugar
  • ¾ Cup Packed Brown Sugar
  • 1 Tb. Vanilla Extract
  • 2 Eggs
  • 2¼ Cups Flour
  • 1 tsp. baking soda
  • ½ tsp. salt
  • 1 Box { 3.4 oz } Vanilla Instant Pudding.
  • 1 Cup Milk Chocolate Chips
  • 20 to 25 Reese's Peanut Butter Cups

Instructions

  1. Preheat your oven at 350ºF.
  2. Peel and cut the Reese's into fourths. Don't chopped them... You don't want them to fall apart. Tip: As soon as you are done cutting put your Peanut Butter Cups in the freezer and leave them there while you make the rest of the cookies.This will make them firm and they won't melt away when you add them into your dough.
  3. Beat soft butter, brown and white sugar and vanilla in a large bowl.
  4. Add the eggs, beat well until creamy.
  5. Add the rest of your dry ingredients including the instant pudding.
  6. Stir in the chocolate chips.
  7. Now it is time to take out those delicious chunks of peanut butter cups and add them to the batter. Stir it gently with a wooden spoon. Don't over do it you want to see and bite into those small chunks later.
  8. Drop the batter by teaspoons onto a cookie sheet. Bake for 8 minutes. The first batch always takes an extra minute. DO NOT OVERCOOK! Cookies will get harder as they cool down.
  9. When they are baked remove them from the cookie sheet to a wire rack. Enjoy!

Oh my!…This is the best cookie dough ever!

Don’t over do it you want to see and bite into those small chunks later.

So good!

If you are planning to give them awayput them inside of a glassjar

and I placed a coffee filter between the lid and the ring that goes around it.

Close it and there you have a cute ruffle!

If you feel generous you can put theextraReese’s Peanut Butter Cupsin a smallerjar.

I used a cupcake liner to decorate the lid.

I punched out some hearts and I made this freeprintable for the tag.

You can click here to get your own. I made them in a bunch of colors.

This would make a perfect gift for any peanut butter lover!

Think about Father’s Day, neighbors, or even End of the School Year… you name it.

Easy, tasty, affordable and cute!

That’s what I call delicious!

Happy Day My Friends!

Besos!

Desirée

If you are new to my blog I want to welcome you!

I hope you stay in touch with me and follow us on Facebook and Pinterest

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  1. Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Cookie Recipe (10)

    Tishon May 22, 2016 at 4:28 PM

    Can you use in place of the 1/2 cup of butter, peanut butter?

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    • Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Cookie Recipe (11)

      The 36th Avenueon May 23, 2016 at 9:00 AM

      I’ve never tried that so I’m not sure.

      Reply

  2. Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Cookie Recipe (12)

    Annaon January 27, 2016 at 12:56 PM

    These cookies are the bomb.com! I had a bunch of Reese’s cups and this was the perfect way to use them! Probably my new favorite cookie!!

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    • Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Cookie Recipe (13)

      The 36th Avenueon January 27, 2016 at 10:06 PM

      Awesome! So glad you like them!

      Reply

  3. Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Cookie Recipe (14)

    Katieon July 12, 2015 at 4:02 PM

    I just made these, and they are delicious. I didn’t have real butter, so I used margarine. And it worked great. This is a great recipe, and it was easy to follw!!

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    • Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Cookie Recipe (15)

      The 36th Avenueon July 13, 2015 at 7:31 AM

      So glad you liked it… Thank you so much for stopping by!

      Reply

  4. Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Cookie Recipe (16)

    Amyon December 22, 2014 at 8:18 PM

    Tonight was my first time making these. They are delicious!! The vanilla pudding makes them moist & then mixed w/the melted chips & PB Cups, oh my!!! These are a definite repeat!! Thanks for posting. Happy Holidays 2014

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    • Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Cookie Recipe (17)

      Desireeon December 29, 2014 at 5:08 PM

      Yay! I’m glad you liked them!

      Reply

  5. Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Cookie Recipe (18)

    Corion November 13, 2014 at 11:48 AM

    these look so good! I was just wondering how many cookIes this reciepe makes? I want to make thEse for a cooke exchange. Thanks!!!

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  6. Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Cookie Recipe (19)

    Samantha Stollon October 4, 2014 at 11:00 AM

    The cookies are a work of art! Absolutely delicious! Thank you for the recipe(:

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  7. Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Cookie Recipe (20)

    FightForTheBiteon October 9, 2013 at 6:51 PM

    Those cookies look delicious! And what a great gift idea!

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    • Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Cookie Recipe (21)

      Desireeon October 10, 2013 at 2:25 PM

      Thank you so much for your comment and for visiting with us!

      Reply

  8. Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Cookie Recipe (22)

    Zeeon May 28, 2013 at 10:07 AM

    hi just wondering if I’m supposed to just put the instant vanilla powder in as is or if I’m supposed to make it as per the instructions on the box then mix it in? thanks!

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      Desireeon May 28, 2013 at 11:14 AM

      Zee, just put the powder in.

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  9. Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Cookie Recipe (24)

    Fiona Stuarton May 14, 2013 at 9:11 AM

    I live in Ireland, any idea what I could use instead of the instant pudding, I really want to make these they sound divine.

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    • Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Cookie Recipe (25)

      Desireeon May 14, 2013 at 9:49 AM

      You can follow the recipe without the pudding as well… It is so yummy!

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Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Cookie Recipe (2024)

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Ingredients. Enriched Flour Bleached (wheat flour, niacin, iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), Sugar, Reese's Peanut Butter (peanuts, sugar, monoglycerides, peanut oil, salt, molasses, corn starch), Water, Palm Oil, Canola Oil, Molasses. Contains 2% or less of: Eggs, Salt, Baking Soda, Artificial Flavor ...

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The standard Reese's cup, meanwhile, was exactly the reliable 50-50 ratio of peanut butter to chocolate we know and love, making for the ultimate balance between salty and sweet.

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There are a few reasons why your cookies are falling apart. The wrong ratio of ingredients, such as too little sugar or peanut butter will make them fall apart.

Do Reese's peanut butter cups melt? ›

Reese's chocolate-covered peanut butter cups will melt to create a peanut-flavored base for a chocolate sauce or dessert filling. The melted Reese's peanut butter cups can also be used as a chocolaty spread for toast. Because chocolate burns easily, it's simplest to melt it in a ...

Why do Reese cups taste different? ›

We discovered that it all comes down to the peanut butter-to-chocolate ratio. After cutting open a regular Reese's Peanut Butter Cup (pictured on the left) and a pumpkin-shaped Reese's (on the right), it's clear that the pumpkin-shaped cup has a much higher peanut butter-to-chocolate ratio.

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Dry – “Dry” or “Crumbly” dough is a product of over-mixing or using too much of any ingredient during the mixing process. This can be reversed by adding one to two tablespoons of liquid (water, milk or softened butter) to your mix.

Why is my peanut butter cookie dough runny? ›

Why is My Dough Runny? Kind of like how crumbly dough is usually because there's too much of the dry ingredients, runny cookie dough comes from having too much of the liquid ingredients.

What happened to Reese's with cookies? ›

Crunchy Cookie Cup: a layered cup with crushed chocolate cookies and peanut butter filling. First available in 1997. Discontinued in 1999, but was brought back in 2017. Hershey has since launched a Big Cup version called Reese's Big Cup Crunchy Cookie.

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Reese's Peanut Butter Cup

The combo of peanut butter and milk chocolate gives this treat a high fat count. Contain: 1 cup (serving): 88 calories, 5 grams fat, 2 grams saturated fat, 8 grams sugar. Stay away, since the grams of fat and calories can add up quickly.

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The chocolate in Reese cups is a milk chocolate made from Non-fat dry milk and anhydrous milk fat (butter with its water or milk solids removed), sugar from sugar beets, chocolate liquor, lecithin, ethyl vanillin.

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INGREDIENTS: WHOLE GRAIN CORN, SUGAR, REESE'S PEANUT BUTTER (PEANUTS, SUGAR, MONOGLYCERIDES, PEANUT OIL, SALT, MOLASSES, CORNSTARCH), DEXTROSE, CORN MEAL, CORN SYRUP, CANOLA OIL, SALT, COCOA, CARAMEL COLOR, TRISODIUM PHOSPHATE, NATURAL & ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR.

What happens if you don't flatten peanut butter cookies? ›

If you don't flatten the cookies first, then the fork does double duty – it performs both functions. One very subtle result of creating the pattern is that the little tips of dough bake up crisper than the rest of the cookie, giving you both a bit of additional texture and deeper taste where the dough is more baked.

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Can I use brown sugar instead of white sugar? ›

In most baking recipes, you can substitute brown sugar for white sugar in a one-to-one ratio. So, if your recipe calls for one cup of white sugar, swap one cup of brown sugar. The sweetness level will be the same, but the brown sugar may change the texture of your baked goods.

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Reese's Pieces are a product extension of the Reese's Peanut Butter Cups line; they were designed to capitalize on the success of the chocolate-covered peanut butter cups, though unlike the cups, they have no chocolate.

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