Easy Peanut Butter Cup Cookie Recipe
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This Easy Peanut Butter Cup Cookie Recipe uses pudding mix to create soft, delicious cookies. With peanut butter cup chunks and melty chocolate chips, this is the ultimate sweet and salty dessert! Especially if you love treats like my Peanut Butter Balls!
These homemade Peanut Butter Cup Cookies are perfect for potlucks, holiday trays, bake sales, or anytime you're craving a rich chocolate and peanut butter dessert.
The pudding mix keeps every bite extra soft and chewy, while the chopped peanut butter cups add the perfect gooey surprise throughout. If you're a fan of bakery-style cookies, try my Brownie Cookie Recipe, Snicker Cookie Recipe!
Quick Look: Easy Peanut Butter Cups Cookie Recipe
- ⏱️ Prep Time: 10 minutes
- 🕒 Total Time: 9 minutes
- 👨👩👧👦 Servings: 8
- 📊 Calories: ~132 kcal per serving
- 🥣 Ingredients: butter, peanut butter, sugar, brown sugar, vanilla pudding, eggs, vanilla flour, baking soda, salt, chocolate chips, and peanut butter cups.
- ⭐ Difficulty: Easy, great for potlucks, and holiday trays!
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Why You'll Love This Recipe
Classic Flavor Combo: Peanut butter and chocolate are always a hit together thanks to the sweet and salty balance!
Easy to Make: Even beginner bakers will be able to nail this simple recipe and make perfectly soft and chewy cookies thanks to easy prep.
Simple Ingredients: You probably have most of the ingredients required for these cookies in your kitchen already.
For even more delicious cookies, try my Bakery Style Chocolate Chip Cookies, Reese's Pieces Peanut Butter Cookies!
Ingredients Needed
- Unsalted Butter: Room temperature and cut into pieces.
- Peanut Butter
- Sugar: You'll need brown sugar, granulated sugar, and powdered sugar for this recipe.
- Instant Vanilla Pudding: Make sure you use instant pudding and not cook and serve.
- Chocolate Chips: I use semi-sweet, but you can use milk chocolate or even dark.
- Peanut Butter Cups: I use Reese's, but you can use another brand if you prefer.
How to Make this Peanut Butter Cup Cookie Recipe
- Step 1: In a large bowl, use an electric mixer to beat the softened butter until creamy.
- Step 2: Mix in peanut butter, white sugar, and brown sugar.
- Step 3: Add eggs and vanilla and mix until combined, another minute or two.
- Step 4: In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking soda, salt, and instant pudding mix.
- Step 5: Pour the dry ingredients into the butter mixture and mix until combined.
- Step 6: Mix in chocolate chips and peanut butter cup pieces.
- Step 7: Scoop dough with a 2-inch cookie scoop and arrange cookie dough balls on a parchment paper-lined baking sheet.
- Step 8: Bake at 350 degrees for 9 to 10 minutes.
Recipe Tips
- Be careful not to overbake these cookies. Once they have a slightly golden brown color, that typically means they're good to go. They'll continue to bake for a minute or so after you pull them from the oven as well.
- Pop your Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups in the freezer for 20–30 minutes first. This keeps them from getting mushy while chopping.
- Press a few extra chunks on top of each dough ball before baking—this makes them look bakery-style and more appealing in photos.
- Store cookies in an airtight container at room temperature. They should stay soft for several days if stored properly.
Recipe FAQ's
The peanut butter filling in peanut butter cups isn't pure peanut butter, so it won't have the same melty quality that plain peanut butter would. The chocolate should get melty as it bakes, but the filling will stay about the same consistency.
If you want these to be more like peanut butter cookies, Reese's Pieces are a good option. You'll still have chocolate from the chocolate chips, but the peanut butter flavor will be more pronounced. You'll probably want to roughly chop the Reese's Pieces to make them easier to bite into.
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Peanut Butter Cup Cookies
Equipment
Ingredients
- 6 tablespoon butter softened to room temperature
- 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 1/4 cups all purpose flour spoon and leveled
- 1 (3.4) box instant vanilla pudding
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup chocolate chips
- 2 1/2 cups chopped Reeses peanut butter cups divided
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Instructions
- In a large bowl, add the softened butter and beat with a hand mixer until creamy.
- Add in the peanut butter, brown sugar, granulated sugar and beat until combined.
- Add in the eggs and vanilla and mix for another 1-2 minutes.
- In a medium bowl, add the flour, instant pudding, baking soda, and salt and whisk until combined.
- Add the dry ingredients to the wet and beat just until combined.
- Using a wooden spoon or spatula, gently fold in the chocolate chips and 2 cups of peanut butter cups.
- Using a 2-inch cookie scoop, place the heaping cookie scoop onto the prepared baking sheet. Gently press the cookies down slightly.
- Bake for 9-10 minutes. (Don't over-bake) Remove from the oven and add the extra peanut butter cup pieces on top.
