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.
Size-able 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! We're in absolute PB heaven!
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!
Can someone get me a glass of milk and my blankie? And the remote for the Hallmark Channel? Ahh...this is the life.
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
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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!
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!
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Peanut Butter Cup Explosion Cookies
Ingredients
- 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!
Hi Barb! You can do it before you bake or even after the cookies have baked. You can add them closer to the end of baking as well. Whatever you feel comfortable doing. I have done it about every way possible. LOL! They may melt a little but that's ok if they do! I hope you enjoy these as much as we did!
Should I add the extra candy for the top closer to the end of baking time? The picture looks like they don't melt. Can't wait to try.
OMG!!! these are the death of me.... yummy!!!
Yes you can Elisa!
Can I freeze them after they’re baked?
I'm so happy to hear! Thank you so much!
These are so delicious!
Aww thank you so much Valentina! These cookies are one of my faves!!
Saw these on your instagram and wanted to reach through the screen to grab a handful. YUMMY! Pinned. 🙂 ~Valentina
Oh my goodness, I could not be left alone with a batch of these cookies, they look dangerously delicious--but I'm willing to take the risk!! 😀
YUM! I didn't know they had them, but cool! I hope you give them a try Suzan!!
That's certainly the best (and the only one) explosion anyone should witness lol. The combination of brown sugar, peanut butter, peanut cups, and chips is DELICIOUS! Oh well, with a scoop of ice cream (peanut butter maybe), that would be insanely (good).
Oh yes....I could eat these EVERY day! I’m drooling just looking at the pictures! Pinning!
God these look AMAZING. I'm a huge peanut butter cup fan! My dream cookie, Kim!
Yum!!! These remind me of the Reeses cookie I like to get at Barnes and Noble. Will try asap!
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