Reese’s Pieces Cookies

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This recipe for these Ultimate Reese’s Pieces Cookies are top-notch peanut butter cookies deliciously loaded with Reese’s Pieces candies, white chocolate chips and  butterscotch chips with a little sea salt on top, if you dare!   YUM!

These peanut butter loaded cookies are perfect for our peanut butter lovers and all the fun holidays like Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas.  More Reese’s? Check out our 16 Reese’s Pieces Candy Desserts That Will MesmerizeAwesome Peanut Butter Cookie Cups and these Sheet Pan Peanut Butter Cup Cookie Bars

best easy peanut butter cookies with reese's pieces cookie recipe

What are Reese’s Pieces Cookies?

Reese’s Pieces Cookies have the sweetness of the white chocolate, butterscotch and Reese’s candies joined with the sea salt and buttery tones, which provides a wonderful sweet and salty balance.  You can even randomly sprinkle them with some coarse sea salt on top to get those sweet and salty flavors really popping!

They’re oft and chewy on the inside with the most perfect cookie texture you could ever imagine!

It totally launches these Reese’s Pieces Cookies into another Cookie Dimension!  BTW…is there such a thing as Cookie Dimensions out there?   I’d love to think so.

best easy peanut butter cookies with reese's pieces cookie recipe

best easy peanut butter cookies with reese's pieces cookie recipe

best easy peanut butter cookies with reese's pieces cookie recipe

Ingredients You Need 

Reese’s Pieces Cookie Recipe

best easy peanut butter cookies with reese's pieces cookie recipe

best easy peanut butter cookies with reese's pieces cookie recipe

How to Make Reese’s Pieces Cookie Recipe

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F and line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper or spray with non-stick spray. (To get best results, use parchment paper)
  2. In a medium bowl, sift the flour, baking soda and salt together.
  3. In another large bowl, using an electric mixer at medium speed, beat together the butter, and sugars until smooth and mixed together well.
  4. Add the egg and vanilla and mix on low speed until mixed in.
  5. Gradually add the flour mixture and mix in until just incorporated. Do not keep mixing – do not overmix.
  6. Add Reese’s Pieces, white chocolate and butterscotch chips and stir with a wooden spoon, again no overmixing, just until incorporated.
  7. Using a small or large ice cream scoop or heaping tablespoon, drop the dough onto the prepared baking sheets, 6 to 8 per pan, depending on size you are making.
  8. Bake the cookies, 1 sheet at a time, until the bottoms and edges are lightly browned and the tops feel firm when lightly touched.
  9. Small cookies bake 8-10 minutes, Large cookies bake 10-13 minutes. Extra large cookies, 15 minutes.
  10. Let the cookies cool for 5 minutes on the baking sheets, then transfer the cookies to wire racks to cool completely.
  11. Makes  12 -30 cookies depending on size.

best easy peanut butter cookies with reese's pieces cookie recipe

I took my Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe and changed the sugar measurements, adding more granulated sugar instead of brown sugar and I added 1/4 teaspoon of baking powder to add some thickness to the cookies.  I only put in a small amount of baking powder because I didn’t want them cake-like or puffy, so 1/4 teaspoon is the perfect amount to get that superb texture.

These are super yummy and addicting when it comes to reese’s pieces desserts, like these Reese’s Cream Cheese Cookie Bars, these Reese’s Oatmeal Cookies and Sheet Pan Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Blondies!

best easy peanut butter cookies with reese's pieces cookie recipeCookie Tips

  • Butter Tips: To avoid flat cookies, be sure your butter is room temp (not melted or even softened), and try using cold/chilled dough if dough is warm.  Just put scooped out dough balls in the refrigerator to chill before baking cookies for great results!
  • Flour Tips: Don’t over-mix cookie batter especially after the flour is added and add it gradually. 
  • How to Measure Flour Correctly helps make cookies come out perfectly!  Just fluff up the flour, lightly spoon the flour into your dry-cup measurement, without packing it down. Scrape off the excess with a straight edge by using the handle of a spoon or knife.
  • Make sure your baking soda is not expired.
  • More Chips! Add more butterscotch, white chocolate chips and Reese’s if you desire! 
  • Baking Times: Small cookies bake 8-10 minutes, Large cookies bake 10-13 minutes. Extra large cookies, 15 minutes.

best easy peanut butter cookies with reese's pieces cookie recipe

I applaud this Reese’s Pieces Cookie Recipe!  I love cookies that that have thickness, a little substance, ya know? Most importantly, if you’re a fan of peanut butter, these cookies will definitely hit the spot!  Kids love them as well as the adults when it comes to Reese’s Pieces desserts!

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Ultimate Reese's Pieces Cookies

Kim Lange
These ultimate cookies are soft, buttery and chewy and chocked full of Reese's Pieces candies, white chocolate chips, butterscotch chips with a sprinkle of coarse sea salt. Absolutely divine!
4.33 from 31 votes
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Servings 12 large cookies
Calories

Ingredients
 
 

  • ½ cup unsalted butter straight from fridge or room temperature, not softened
  • ¼ cup firmly packed light brown sugar
  • ½ cup granulated sugar
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour measured correclty
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup Reese's Pieces Candies
  • ½ cup butterscotch chips
  • ½ cup white chocolate chips
  • coarse sea salt

Instructions
 

  • Preheat the oven to 350°F and line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.
  • In another large bowl, using an electric mixer at medium speed, beat together the butter, and sugars until smooth and mixed together well with no butter chunks left.
  • Add the egg and vanilla and mix on low speed until mixed in.
  • Gradually add the flour, baking soda and salt and mix in until just incorporated. Do not overmix.
  • Add Reese's Pieces, white chocolate and butterscotch chips and stir with a wooden spoon, again no overmixing, just until incorporated.
  • Using a small or large ice cream scoop or heaping tablespoon, drop the dough onto the prepared baking sheets, 6 to 8 per pan, depending on size you are making.
  • Bake the cookies, 1 sheet at a time, until the bottoms and edges are lightly browned and the tops feel firm when lightly touched,
  • Small cookies bake 8-10 minutes, Large cookies bake 10-13 minutes.
  • Let the cookies cool for 5 minutes on the baking sheets, then transfer the cookies to wire racks to cool completely.
  • Makes  12 -30 cookies depending on size.

Notes

  • Butter Tips: To avoid flat cookies: Be sure your butter is straight from the fridge or room temp (not melted or even softened).
  • The cookies are pretty thick, but to get extra thick cookies like levain cookies, scoop dough balls out with a cookie dough scooper and place dough balls in fridge for 10 minutes or so, then place on tray and bake the cookies an extra minute or two.
  • Flour Tips: Don't over-mix cookie batter especially after the flour is added and add it gradually.  Make sure to measure your flour correctly.
  • Make sure your baking soda is not expired.
  • If dough becomes warm, chill dough if dough is warm for 10-15 minutes
  • Add more butterscotch, white chocolate chips and Reese's if you desire.  
Keyword butterscotch, cookies, peanut butter, reeses, white chocolate
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19 Comments

  1. Hi Kc! I think the candies and peanut butter chips add enough peanut butter flavor. I haven’t tried it with peanut butter so I’m not sure? But if you want more peanut butter flavor in your cookie dough, these Milk Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Cookies are excellent, and just switch out the chips for Reese’s pieces and peanut butter chips. 🙂 Either way, both have peanut butter flavor!

  2. Hi Kim,
    Could you add some peanut butter to the batter to give it a more peanut butter taste? Or do the candies add enough peanut butter flavor? Thank you

  3. Yes you can Mona, scoop it up into balls and freeze on a baking sheet for 20 mins and then put them in a ziploc bag and back to the freezer. Bake a couple more minutes and hope you enjoy!! xo

  4. Very good! Just made them for a surprise for my husband (he love’s reese’s). I can’t wait until he comes home to try them 🙂

  5. These look amazing, what a perfect blend of flavors-butterscotch, white chocolate, peanut butter with salt!! 😀 I so wish I could sit down to a huge plate of these right now!!

  6. Oh, my gosh, such dreamy cookies! Plus this is a good excuse to get some Reeses in the house! A spoonful for my mouth, then a spoonful for the cookies 🙂

  7. I’m crazy for anything peanut butter! Love the girth, too! im all about it in a cookie, for sure! Great recipe, thanks! And pinning!

  8. I’ll be quiet about these for some time since it’s super hot here and if I say what I have found at your place I will definitely have to turn the oven on …. no peace until I do….. so dear friend, keeper it is for a bit cooler days . Thank you ! xo

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