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Reese's pieces peanut butter cookies with pools of melted chocolate scattered on parchment paper.

Reese's Pieces Peanut Butter Cookies

Author: Gail Ng
Soft and thick peanut butter cookies with Reese's Pieces chocolate peanut butter candies and puddles of dark chocolate.
5 from 1 vote
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Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 12 minutes
Total Time 42 minutes
Yield 12 cookies
Category Dessert
Cuisine American

Equipment

Ingredients
  

  • 200 g all-purpose flour
  • ½ teaspoon baking powder
  • ½ teaspoon baking soda
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 115 g unsalted butter, softened to room temperature
  • 100 g granulated sugar
  • 50 g brown sugar
  • 1 large egg, room temperature
  • 100 g natural creamy peanut butter
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 75 g Reese's Pieces candy, roughly chopped, plus an extra handful for topping
  • 50 g dark chocolate, roughly chopped, plus an extra handful for topping

Instructions
 

  • Prep: Preheat oven to 350°F. Line a baking tray with parchment paper and set aside.
  • Mix dry ingredients: In a medium bowl, stir together flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
    Left to right: flour and dry ingredients in a glass bowl, hand stirring dry ingredients together in a bowl.
  • Cream butter and sugars: In a large mixing bowl, use an electric mixer to beat softened butter until it becomes very creamy. Add the granulated sugar and brown sugar and cream together until fluffy, about 3-4 minutes.
    Left to right: butter and sugars in a mixing bowl, creaming butter and sugar together with a hand mixer.
  • Mix in wet ingredients: Add the egg and mix until combined. Finally, add the peanut butter and vanilla extract and mix again until combined.
    Left to right: peanut butter in a bowl of cookie dough batter, a bowl of mixed cookie dough batter.
  • Add dry to wet mixture: Add the flour mixture to the wet mixture and mix until it's almost combined but with some flour patches left.
    Left to right: pouring flour into bowl of cookie dough batter, mixing cookie dough with a hand mixer.
  • Fold in chocolate: Add the Reese's Pieces and chocolate chunks. Switch to a spatula to fold it all together and finish mixing the dough without overmixing.
    Left to right: pouring a bowl of chocolate chunks into cookie dough, mixing cookie dough with a spatula.
  • Scoop cookie dough: Use a 4-tablespoon scooper to scoop out the cookie dough and release it onto your lined baking sheet, leaving about 2" in between each cookie to allow for spreading.
    Left to right: scooping cookie dough with a scooper, releasing a ball of cookie dough onto a baking sheet.
  • Bake: Bake cookies for about 10 minutes. Take them out of the oven and bang the tray against a wire rack a few times to help them spread and flatten. Press a few extra Reese's Pieces and chocolate chunks on top of each cookie. Return them to the oven to bake for another 1-2 minutes, for a total of about 12 minutes.
  • Enjoy warm: Let the cookies cool on the baking sheet for about 10 minutes before carefully transferring them to a wire rack to cool completely or enjoy them warm!

Nutrition

Calories: 289kcal | Carbohydrates: 33g | Protein: 5g | Fat: 16g | Saturated Fat: 8g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 5g | Trans Fat: 0.3g | Cholesterol: 34mg | Sodium: 217mg | Potassium: 131mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 18g | Vitamin A: 261IU | Calcium: 32mg | Iron: 2mg
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