Peanut Butter Cup Explosion Cookies

These amazing Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Explosion Cookies are thick, soft and full of peanut butter flavor that will have you falling in love with them in no time! Yay for recipes with peanut butter cups and cookies!

More Peanut Butter Cookie Recipes? You'll love these Thick & Soft Peanut Butter Cookies, these “Phenomenal” Milk Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Cookies and these 3 Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies for starters!

Take your Peanut Butter Cups To the Next Level

Are you ready to take your love of peanut butter cups to the next level? If so, you'll love these Peanut Butter Cup Explosion Cookies! 

These size-able quarter cup Peanut butter cookies are generously loaded with mini peanut butter cups and peanut butter baking chips and have the perfect balance of sweet and salty! 

So, I took my popular ‘Thick ‘n Fudgy’ Chocolate Explosion Cookies and transformed them to peanut butter love, because peanut butter is LOVE, as we have so happily established. These are like the most comforting cookies!

Deliciously indulgent and irresistibly sweet, peanut butter cup explosion cookies combine two of life's most beloved flavors – peanut butter and chocolate – into an unbeatable combination.

Can someone get me a glass of milk and my blankie?  And the remote for the Hallmark Channel? Ahh...this is the life.  🙂  

Don't worry if you're not an experienced baker - these indulgent treats are surprisingly easy to make, plus a few helpful tips and tricks to ensure they come out perfectly every single time. So, let's get baking!

Ingredients You Need

Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Cookie Recipe

• unsalted butter, softened
• granulated sugar
• brown sugar
• vanilla extract
• eggs
• creamy peanut butter, like Jif or Skippy
• all purpose flour
• baking soda
• salt
• Mini peanut butter cups or peanut butter cups chopped, can add more if desired
• peanut baking chips, reserve more for tops of cookies, can also use semi-sweet chocolate chips

How to Make Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Cookie Recipe 

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Prepare a baking pan with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat.
2. Using a mixer, cream the butter, sugar, and vanilla until creamy and fluffy.
3. Add in the eggs and peanut butter and mix until just combined.
4. Add the flour, baking soda and salt to the butter mixture and mix until incorporated.
5. Stir in mini peanut butter cups and peanut butter chips.
6. Using about ¼ cup or a large scoop, scoop the dough balls out and then roll the dough into even balls.
7. Gently press several chips into the tops of the cookies.
8. Place on baking sheet and bake for 15 minutes and let sit on baking sheet for one minute before transferring to a cooling rack.
9. Place cooled cookies in airtight container between cookie breaks! Enjoy!

Best Tips for Our Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Explosion Cookies! 

Anyways, each of these cookies are about ¼ cups' worth of cookie dough. It makes a large batch, which is great for the holidays, a bake sale or any special event when you feel like celebrating!  You get about 36 large cookies. 

For a smaller batch, just halve the ingredients in the recipe by adjusting the servings tab.  Also if you want to make smaller cookies, you'll get double the cookies.  Decisions, decisions...

When making the cookies, there are various ways to make the cookies.  I used a 2 tablespoon cookie scoop and doubled a scoop on top of  each other and then add some extra pb cups and peanut butter chips to the tops or you could just roll them into balls.  You could also use a large cookie scoop. 

Make sure you measure the flour correctly, because as most cookie experts will tell you, when you add too much, it will make the cookies hard and crumbly.  We do not want that!  WE want a soft, yet hearty version, thank you!  

Also, make sure to not over bake your cookies.  It's better to have a slightly underbaked cookie, as they will still be baking once you pull them out of the oven to cool.

More Variations

Feel free to use Reese's Pieces for more peanut butter flavor or use M&M candies for more chocolate!

You could even add whole Reese's peanut butter cups in the middle of each of the cookies! Add some pretzels or peanuts for am amazing sweet and salty explosion!

At the end of the day, Peanut Butter Cup Explosion Cookies are a delicious and decadent way to satisfy any sweet tooth. As a great mix of chocolate and peanut butter, these peanut butter cookies with reese cups will be a crowd-pleaser among family and friends.

So, the real truth? How do you feel about a relationship with these Peanut Butter Cup Explosion Cookies?  Long lasting relationship?  Peanut butter lovers say...YES!   I could eat these everyday! 

We're also in absolute PB heaven with these Ultimate Peanut Butter Cup Stuffed Chocolate Cookies and these 30 Peanut Butter & Candy Desserts!

More Irresistible Peanut Butter Cookies

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• Ultimate Chocolate Peanut Butter Explosion Cake

You may also enjoy these Soft Lemon & Blueberry Explosion Cookies, these Lemon Layered Pudding Cheesecake Bars or these Patriotic Cheesecake Party Desserts!

Peanut Butter Cup Explosion Cookies

Kim Lange

These amazing Peanut Butter Cup Explosion Cookies are thick, soft and full of peanut butter flavor that will have you falling in love with them in no time.  

4.91 from 20 votes

Print Recipe Pin Recipe

Prep Time 20 minutes mins

Cook Time 15 minutes mins

Course Dessert, Snack

Cuisine American

Servings 36 Servings

Calories

Ingredients

  

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• 1 cup unsalted butter softened
• ¾ cup granulated sugar
• ¾ cup brown sugar
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup peanut butter
• 2 ¾ cups + 2 tablespoons all purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 cups Mini peanut butter cups or peanut butter cups chopped, can add more if desired
• 1 ½ cups peanut baking chips reserve more for tops of cookies

Instructions

 

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Prepare a baking pan with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat.
• Using a mixer, cream the butter, sugar, and vanilla until creamy and fluffy.
• Add in the eggs and peanut butter and mix until just combined.
• Add the flour, baking soda and salt to the butter mixture and mix until incorporated.
• Stir in mini peanut butter cups and peanut butter chips.
• Using about ¼ cup or a large scoop, scoop the dough balls out and then roll the dough into even balls.
• Gently press several chips into the tops of the cookies.
• Place on baking sheet and bake for 15 minutes and let sit on baking sheet for one minute before transferring to a cooling rack.
• Place cooled cookies in air-tight container between cookie breaks! Enjoy!

Keyword cookies, peanut butter, peanut butter chips, peanut butter cups, treats

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