Talk about an over-the-top cookie! Complete with Reese’s Pieces, peanut butter chips, chocolate chips and a mini Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup smashed on top, these cookies are not for the faint of heart. Personally, I loved them, but what’s not to love? Peanut butter and chocolate are one of my favorite combos so I was sold when I first saw them on Cookie Madness. The cookie itself is deliciously soft and chewy and the fun of biting into all the other chocolate and peanut butter goodness is worth the calories, I promise.
Loaded Peanut Butter Cup Chocolate Cookies
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Makes about 36 cookies.
INGREDIENTS:
1 cup butter, softened
3/4 cup peanut butter
3/4 cup white sugar
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
1/3 cup cocoa powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
1 cup peanut butter chips
1 cup Reese’s Pieces
1 package mini Reese’s peanut butter cups, cut into halves and frozen (the original recipe says to freeze the cups and then cut them into halves but I had major issues with this – when I froze them whole and then tried to cut them, it was a disaster – the mini cups broke into a million pieces, so my suggestion would be to gently cut them into halves and THEN freeze them)
DIRECTIONS:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
In a large bowl or stand mixer, cream together the butter, peanut butter, white sugar, and brown sugar until smooth. Beat in the eggs one at a time, then stir in the vanilla. Combine the flour, cocoa, and baking soda; stir into the peanut butter mixture. Mix in the chocolate chips, peanut butter chips, and Reese’s Pieces (this is best done by hand so the shells of the Reese’s Pieces don’t get broken).
Drop by tablespoonfuls onto cookie sheets lined with parchment paper or silpat liner. Push one peanut butter cup half into the center of each ball of dough. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes (I baked mine about 11 minutes). Let cool for 1 or 2 minutes on sheet before removing, or they will fall apart.
Recipe Source: from Cookie Madness and allrecipes.com
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Anonymous – glad you liked these little beauties!
I made these cookies today and they are AMAZING… YUM YUM YUM!!!
Yum! Someone brought these to a faculty meeting, and I’ve been looking for the recipe. Thanks!
there’s no way these couldn’t be sensational. even burned to an almost-crisp, they’d probably still make me weak in the knees. classic and lovely, melanie!
These look wonderful! I love the peanut butter and chocolate combination!
Looks absolutely scrumptious! I’d probably eat all the ingredients before I got the cookies made
THESE ARE DIVINE! David couldn’t stop eating them! I only got one because he ate the rest! Thanks for spoiling David with these delish cookies!!
You had me at Reese’s Pieces! Good GAWD I love those things (and have you seen the mini ones?!) These look so fun!
Oh, I can see myself getting MAJOR brownie points for baking these for my husband! He loves peanut butter and chocolate above anything else, and the combination is just about the only sweet thing that he will indulge in. A million thanks for posting!
Oh lordy – those look just amazing. Pb and chocolate is my favorite combination. Please eat one for me, because I could never make those in my house (food allergies)
Addie – these definitely aren’t for the faint of heart with all the loaded-ness about them…but I’m glad you found the recipe!
My favorite combo ever….Chocolate and Peanut butter…… !!
A loaded cookie, YUM!! I love PB and chocolate!
Be still my heart, do these cookies look ever soooo good. Loaded with ingredients, fab combo, Yum!!
I think these cookies would be addictive! BTW, I’ve have some awards for you at my blog.
Those look so yummy! Peanut butter and chocolate are the perfect marriage!
WOW!!!!!!! These look awesome!
I don’t like peanut butter so this would be a perfect recipe for me to make for friends when I don’t want to eat half the batch!
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I love chocolate and peanut butter together! Great looking cookies. Wish I had some now!
Molly – yay! We love stuffed little hearts around here. Thanks so much for letting me know these were a hit!
oh, Melanie! My seven year old son, and 21 and 23 year old sisters thank you from the bottom of their stuffed little hearts! And my apartment now smells divine. These were great to bake and put in little holiday bags for the pb/ chocolate gluttons in my life.
) Thanks!
An impressive share, I just given this onto a colleague who was doing
a little analysis on this. And he in fact bought me breakfast because
I found it for him.. smile. So let me reword that: Thnx for the treat!
But yeah Thnkx for spending the time to discuss this, I feel strongly
about it and love reading more on this topic. If possible, as you
become expertise, would you mind updating your blog with more details?
It is highly helpful for me. Big thumb up for this blog post!
Im participating in the postcard project cookie swap and I’m definitely using one of your recipes but I can’t decide which one would ship best. Any suggestions?