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Peanut Butter Cup Cookies

January 17, 2019 by Judy 6 Comments

Dark Chocolate chips and mini Peanut Butter cups combine
in a classic peanut butter chocolate cookie recipe

Soft peanut butter cookies and peanut butter cups combine with dark chocolate in this classic cookie recipe

This peanut butter cookie recipe is new to the blog for January, 2019. Our Pennsylvania cold, snowy weather has me craving no fuss, simple recipes to bake, so I have plans to stick with classic cookies for awhile. Easy recipes will leave me more time to concentrate on sitting in front of the fireplace with a good book & a glass of red wine!

Melted butter and decadent dark chocolate chips combine with mini peanut butter cups for a soft and cake-like cookie that really hits the spot when looking for a sweet treat. I am definitely adding this cookie recipe to my files. The peanut butter cookies keep well and remain soft for days, or you can pop them into a ziploc freezer bag and save for future cookie cravings. I hope you enjoy these peanut butter cookies and Happy baking!  Judy

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3.0 from 3 reviews
Peanut Butter Cup Cookies
 
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Prep time
30 mins
Cook time
10 mins
Total time
40 mins
 
Dark chocolate and peanut butter cups combine for a cake-like peanut butter cookie
Author: Country Cupboard Cookies
Recipe type: Cookies
Serves: 15 large
Ingredients
  • ½ cup unsalted butter, melted (4 ounces or 1 stick)
  • ⅓ cup white granulated sugar (3 ounces)
  • ⅓ cup packed brown sugar ( 3 ounces)
  • ½ cup creamy peanut butter (4 ounces)
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 teaspoon pure vanilla
  • 1⅓ cups all purpose flour (6 ounces)
  • ¾ teaspoon baking soda
  • ½ teaspoon kosher salt
  • ½ cup dark chocolate chips (3 ounces)
  • 6 ounces mini peanut cups ( I used half of a 12 ounce bag of mini Reeses's miniature cups)
Instructions
  1. Melt butter and cool
  2. Add white sugar and brown sugar and cream together
  3. Add peanut butter and cream together
  4. Beat in egg and vanilla
  5. Combine flour, baking soda and salt. Mix into batter just until combined.
  6. Stir in dark chocolate chips
  7. Unwrap mini peanut butter cups
  8. Cut mini peanut cups into 4 pieces each using a sharp knife. I used about 20 of the mini cups.
  9. Add approximately half to batter, stirring in by hand.
  10. Scoop out your cookies, I used a medium cookie scoop, yielding 15 cookies.
  11. Add more of the quartered peanut butter cups to each cookie. I added between 2- 3 pieces to each cookie.
  12. Bake 350 degree oven for 8 to 10 minutes.
Notes
These cookies are soft and cake-like. The cookies do not flatten much while baking.
I used dark chocolate chips, but these cookies would also be delicious with semi-sweet chocolate chips.
3.5.3251

 

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Comments

  1. Kara says

    September 23, 2024 at 12:23 pm

    They certainly do not flatten at all. Very crumbly…5 girls and not one was a fan unfortunately. The taste is there just not what I was looking for, I did add a pinch of sea salt on top and those were delicious. I will try again and see if I can switch something up a bit.

    Reply
    • Judy says

      September 23, 2024 at 10:18 pm

      Kara, I like the idea of adding the sea salt to these cookies! I always use Jiff brand creamy Peanut butter for this recipe, tends to help the baked cookie to be softer.

      Reply
  2. Kelly says

    October 11, 2024 at 6:03 pm

    My daughter and I used your recipe to make cookies based on my husband’s favorite treat – White Chocolate Reese’s Cups! We used white chocolate chips and white chocolate Reese’s Cups. These cookies came out amazing!! The white chocolate and peanut made the perfect cookie treat! This one will definitely be in our cookie files! 😊

    Reply
    • Judy says

      October 17, 2024 at 8:45 pm

      I love the combination of white chocolate & peanut butter too!

      Reply
  3. Kristen Meinders says

    October 14, 2024 at 12:02 am

    I followed the recipe exactly and baked for 10 minutes. The cookies were still raw, so I baked them for another 5 minutes. They came out dry and crumbly. Not sure what went wrong 🙁

    Reply
    • Judy says

      October 17, 2024 at 8:57 pm

      These cookies do tend to be cake-like and more crumbly because of the peanut butter cups added.

      Reply

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