Description
Homemade Reeses peanut butter cup cookies blend classic chocolate chip goodness with classic peanut butter candy. Chocolate lovers will savor rich peanut butter notes and crumbly cookie textures that complete sweet dessert cravings.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 bag (11 oz / 311 g) mini Reese’s peanut butter cups
- ½ cup (128 g) creamy peanut butter
- ½ cup (113 g) butter, softened to room temperature
- ½ cup (100 g) sugar
- ½ cup (110 g) brown sugar
- 1 ½ cups (180 g) flour
- 1 egg
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- ¾ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Preparation: Warm oven to 350°F (175°C) and generously spray mini muffin tins with non-stick cooking spray.
- Mixing Base: Cream butter, peanut butter, granulated and brown sugars together until smooth and homogeneous, creating a light, fluffy foundation for the cookies.
- Wet Ingredients Integration: Blend vanilla extract and egg into the sugar mixture, whisking thoroughly to ensure complete incorporation and maintain a silky texture.
- Dry Ingredients Combination: Gently fold flour, baking powder, and salt into the wet mixture, stirring until a consistent dough forms without overmixing.
- Dough Shaping and Placement: Roll dough into compact, uniform balls and nestle them into muffin tin cavities, distributing evenly to ensure consistent baking.
- Baking Process: Bake for 8-10 minutes until cookies develop golden edges and appear set, monitoring closely to prevent over-browning.
- Chocolate Accent: Immediately after removing from oven, delicately press a Reese’s peanut butter cup into the center of each warm cookie, creating a smooth, level surface.
- Cooling and Setting: Rest cookies in muffin tins for 3-4 minutes, then transfer to wire racks to cool completely, allowing chocolate and cookie to stabilize and develop rich flavors.
Notes
- Precision Matters: Use room temperature ingredients for smoother mixing and better cookie texture.
- Dough Handling: Chill the dough for 15 minutes before shaping to prevent sticky hands and create more uniform cookies.
- Baking Timing: Watch cookies closely during last 2 minutes of baking to prevent over-browning, as they’ll continue cooking in hot pan.
- Chocolate Placement: Press Reese’s cups gently but firmly into warm cookies to ensure they stick without breaking or sinking too deep.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 10 minutes
- Category: Desserts, Snacks
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 22
- Calories: 204
- Sugar: 10 g
- Sodium: 142 mg
- Fat: 10 g
- Saturated Fat: 4 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 6 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 27 g
- Fiber: 1 g
- Protein: 3 g
- Cholesterol: 19 mg