Reese’s Peanut Butter Chocolate Cookies
These Reese’s Peanut Butter Chocolate Cookies are a scrumptious family-favorite peanut butter stuffed cookies recipe, perfect for any season!
These Peanut Butter Cookies are peanut butter cookies (cups made in a muffin tin), stuffed with a Dark Chocolate Reese’s peanut butter cup. These cookies are popular holiday cookie (hello Christmas cookies), but are delicious for any occasion.
Reese’s Peanut Butter Chocolate Cookies
A classic cookie recipe that has been around forever, these peanut butter chocolate cookies have a miniature Reese’s peanut butter cup hiding inside.
I changed up the classic recipe that my Dad’s wife Ginny gave me, using a little less sugar.
Why we love these stuffed peanut butter cookies
I love to make this recipe ahead freeze. They go perfectly on any Christmas plate.
These super cute (and small) with a chocolate peanut butter cup center. YUM!
Even though they are made in a muffin or cupcake tin, they are not an ordinary cupcakes. HA! Each bite is filled with a Reese’s Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup in their center. Be still my heart!
This is a no-fuss recipe, meaning anyone can make them. They make an impressive batch of cookies without having to make the frosting and all the fuss of frosting traditional Christmas cookies.
Ingredients for Peanut Butter Stuffed Cookies
- Butter
- Peanut butter: you can use chunky or creamy peanut butter
- Granulated sugar
- Eggs
- Vanilla
- Flour
- Baking soda + salt
- Dark Chocolate Reese’s Peanut Butter cups (use the smaller ones): you can also use regular milk chocolate Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
How to make Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Cookies
- Cream the butter, peanut butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla. Blend the dry ingredients into the creamed mixture.
- Roll cookie dough into small balls and place in mini muffin pans.
- Bake until golden brown.
- After they come out of the oven, when still hot, press a miniature Reese’s peanut butter cup into each cookie.
- Cool and carefully remove them from the muffin pan.
Tips and substitutions:
- Not only do these cookies have a surprise center bite, they look pretty on a Christmas plate.
- Optional to drizzle a little chocolate over the top, with more chopped Reese’s Peanut Butter cups on top, before serving. Hot fudge sauce or any chocolate ice cream topping will work well too.
- You can also add chopped peanuts for a little bit of crunch.
- Replace the peanut butter with almond butter or nut butter.
- Spread a small spoonful of Trader Joe’s fudge (it comes in a jar) on top of the cookie.
Funny, when I made this recipe years ago, I left out the brown sugar, and added an extra egg. They weren’t over-the-top sweet, and we sort of liked how they turned out with dark chocolate Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups.
Oh, my goodness.
They were gone in a snap!
I hope you love this recipe as much as I do. If you love the combination of peanut butter and chocolate be sure to check out our Quick Peanut Butter Cups Recipe. They are amazing too!
More peanut butter recipes to try:
No Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Bars
Peanut Butter Cake with Chocolate Frosting
Chocolate Swirled Peanut Butter Cookies
Ingredients
- ½ cup butter
- ½ cup peanut butter
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- 1 ¼ cups flour
- ¾ tsp. baking soda
- ¼ tsp. salt
- 1 bag Dark Chocolate Reese’s Peanut Butter cups
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°. Cream the butter, peanut butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla. Blend the dry ingredients into the creamed mixture.
- Roll cookie dough into small balls and place in mini muffin pans.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes or until golden brown.
- After they come out of the oven, when still hot, press a miniature Reese’s peanut butter cup into each cookie.
- Cool about 10 minutes and carefully remove them from the muffin pan; serve.
Notes
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Yum. Chocolate and peanut butter, my favorites. I grew up 30 minutes from Snoqualmie Pass and never skiied(sp?)…my parents didn’t, none of my close friends really did so I just never did. I did learn to cross country ski and while it was short lived, I loved it. I think I would enjoy that or snow shoeing.