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    Peanut Butter Cup Cookies

    Published: Dec 2, 2019 · Modified: Nov 28, 2022 by Susie Weinrich · This post may contain affiliate links. 1 Comment

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    Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Cookies on a cooling rack, pinterest text on top

    Peanut Butter Cup Cookies are delicious chewy peanut butter cookie cups that are stuffed with mini Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. They are an easy cookie recipe using Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups! Both kids and adults will love them. They are great any time of year, but especially during the holidays.

    Peanut Butter Cup Cookies on a cooling rack with Reese's Peanut Butter Cups to the side

    Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups

    This cookie recipe calls for Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups but you do not want to buy the large cups that come in a two pack. You will want to buy the 11 oz bag of individually wrapped mini Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. See the photo below for example:

    Mini Reese's Peanut Butter Cups

    How to Make Peanut Butter Cup Cookies

    This is a fairly easy and quick cookie recipe to make.

    Start by preheating your oven to 350 degrees and grab a 12 count muffin tin.

    In the bowl or a stand mixer or with a hand mixer cream together ½ cup room temp. butter, ½ cup creamy peanut butter, ½ cup white sugar, ½ cup brown sugar, until it is combined and fluffy. Add in 1 egg and ½ teaspoon of vanilla and mix until combined.

    Sift in 1 ¼ cup flour, ½ teaspoon salt, and ½ teaspoon baking soda. Continue to mix just until everything comes together. Do not over mix at this point.

    peanut butter cookie dough in a bowl

    Roll about a tablespoon and a half into balls and place in the muffin tin, one per cup. They will be about a 1 inch ball of dough. Work quickly so the dough does not get too warm.

    rolling peanut butter cookie dough balls in my hand

    Bake for 8-10 minutes. Do not overbake. You want them to be lightly golden and still have a soft middle.

    While they bake unwrap the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups so they are ready to add to the cookies right when they come out of the oven.

    peanut butter cookie dough in a muffin tin, ready to bake for Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Cookies

    Pull the cookies out of the oven and press 1 Reese’s in the center of each cookie.

    • putting Reese's peanut butter cups into the peanut butter cookies
    • pressing an Reese's peanut butter cup in the warm cookie
    • muffin pan with peanut butter cup cookies inside
    • peanut butter cup cookie cooling in the muffin tin

    Let cool in the muffin tin for about 5 minutes then pop them out.

    Reese's Peanut Butter Cup cookies cooling on a rack

    Store at room temp. in an airtight container for up to a week.

    Peanut Butter Cup Cookie bit in half so you can see the inside of the peanut butter cup

    Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Cookie Recipe

    Peanut Butter Cup cookies cooling on a rack

    Peanut Butter Cup Cookies

    Reese's Peanut Butter Cups are pressed into the middle of a warm peanut butter cookie. These are a delicious cookie treat!
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    Prep Time: 15 minutes
    Cook Time: 8 minutes
    Resting time: 5 minutes
    Total Time: 28 minutes
    Author: Susie Weinrich

    Ingredients

    • ½ cup butter, softened at room temp.
    • ½ cup creamy peanut butter
    • ½ cup white sugar
    • ½ cup brown sugar
    • 1 egg
    • ½ teaspoon vanilla
    • 1 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
    • ½ teaspoon baking soda
    • ½ teaspoon salt
    • 24 Mini Reese's Peanut Butter Cups 11 oz bag of individually wrapped Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
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    Instructions

    • Preheat the oven to 350°
      You will need (2) 12 cup muffin tins. If you only have 1, you will want to refrigerate the dough while you wait for the first batch to cook.
    • In a bowl of a stand mixer with the paddle attachment or a hand held mixer, cream together the ½ cup butter, ½ cup creamy peanut butter, ½ cup white sugar, ½ cup brown sugar until it is combined and fluffy.
    • Blend in 1 egg and ½ teaspoon vanilla.
    • Sift 1 ¼ cup flour, ½ teaspoon baking soda, ½ teaspoon salt into the cookie dough mixture. Blend just until the flour is incorporated.
    • Form the cookie dough into about 1-1.5 inch balls and place in the ungreased muffin tin. You will have about 20-24 balls.
      The dough is sticky but work quickly so the dough doesn't get too warm.
      **If you are working with one muffin pan, place the remaining dough in the fridge until the first batch is cooked.
    • Bake the cookies for 8-10 minutes. Do not overbake, you want them to be golden and the middle to still be soft so you can put a Reese's in the middle.
      While they are baking unwrap the Reese's Peanut Butter Cups.
    • As soon as the cookies come out of the oven press a peanut butter cup into the middle of each cookie. Let them cool for about 5 minutes and then remove them from the muffin tin.
    • Store at room temp. in an air tight container for up to a week.
    Did you try this recipe? Connect with me & let me know how it turned out by commenting below!
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    If nutrition facts are provided they are calculated as an estimate to the best of our knowledge.

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    1. yvonne

      February 14, 2021 at 9:00 am

      THANKS.so much for this cookies recipes.i”m going to make them this week.thank you.have a bless day happy vailtines ndfay

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