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Reese’s Pieces Cookies are chock full of peanut butter candy goodness in a chocolate fudge cookie. You’ll get chocolate and peanut butter in every delicious bite!
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These Reese’s Pieces Cookies are a favorite quick cookie recipe at our house. Colorful Reese’s Pieces candies combined with chopped Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups and peanut butter chips all in a chocolaty cookie dough is a peanut butter lover’s dream! My kids go crazy for anything chocolate and peanut butter so these peanut butter cookies are their top choice when it comes to cookie baking. They love to help chop up their favorite candy and add them to the dough. This is a perfect recipe for using up leftover Halloween candy too!
Ingredients in Reese’s Pieces Cookies
These cookies are bursting with peanut butter flavor! And it’s a super easy dough to throw together when you have a sweet tooth. Here’s what you need:
- Chocolate cake mix – unprepared. Using a cake mix for cookies is SO easy. No need to measure all sorts of dry ingredients. The entire flour mixture is all there for you in the cake mix!
- Eggs – two whole eggs.
- Butter – one cube butter, softened to room temperature.
- Brown sugar – half a cup, packed.
- Water – one tablespoon
- Reese’s peanut butter chips – one cup, or more to taste.
- Reese’s pieces – you can use regular or the mini Reese’s pieces.
- Reese’s miniature peanut butter cups – just under a cup, chopped. Use the regular size or minis.
Easy Cookie Dough
This cookie dough could not be easier to make, because you use a cake mix! If you’ve never used boxed cake mixes for cookies, I encourage you to try this recipe! Just cream a few ingredients together including butter or oil, eggs, vanilla extract if needed and some water to the mix and your cookie dough is done! It’s fudgy, chocolaty, chewy and so yummy! I love using devil’s food cake mix for added density but you can use any chocolate cake mix that you have on hand. These Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies are made with a spice cake mix and they are delicious! Try this recipe for Homemade Oreo Cookies using a chocolate cake mix, and this Red Velvet Brownies Recipe are made with a red velvet cake mix. So many options!
Tips for Baking Cookies
- Combine all ingredients in a medium bowl and use a stand mixer to whip everything together.
- Use a cookie scoop to make cookie dough balls the same size. They’ll bake up more evenly in the oven.
- Line your baking sheet with parchment paper so the cookies don’t stick. Also transfer your cookies to a cooling rack immediately after baking.
- If you don’t want to bake all the cookies at once, pop cookie dough balls into the freezer! They’ll keep for up to three months, and you can thaw them out and bake anytime.
Add Other Candy Too!
With this easy cookie dough as a base you can add just about anything to it to create your favorite cookie treat. I like to dig through my kids’ Halloween candy for inspiration. Chop up just about any candy bar and create dozens of your favorites, like:
- Almond Joy or Mounds
- Kit Kat
- M&Ms (any kind will work perfectly)
- Junior Mints
- Milky Way
- Twix
- Snickers
- Baby Ruth
- Butterfinger
If your cookie needs more bulk than just the candy, add chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, peanut butter chips and any kind of nuts. I love peanuts in these cookies, chopped pecans or walnuts. These are so much fun for kids to help make!
Frequently Asked Questions about Reese’s Pieces Cookies
A general rule for baking cookies is to preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Bake cookies for 10-13 minutes.
The candy coating is a mixture of cornstarch, powdered sugar, and some artificial colors and flavors.
Yep! There’s fresh roasted peanuts in the unique peanut butter filling. Of course there’s a lot of sugar added, too.
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How to Make Reese’s Pieces Cookies
Reese’s Pieces Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 chocolate cake mix unprepared
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup butter softened
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon water
- 1 cup Reese’s peanut butter chips
- 3/4 cup Reese’s pieces
- 3/4 cup Reese’s miniature peanut butter cups chopped
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a large bowl, combine first five ingredients.
- Stir in all Reese's candies.
- Drop by rounded tablespoon onto ungreased cookie sheet.
- Bake 11-13 minutes.
Notes
- Combine all ingredients in a medium bowl and use a stand mixer to whip everything together.
- Use a cookie scoop to make cookie dough balls the same size. They’ll bake up more evenly in the oven.
- Line your baking sheet with parchment paper so the cookies don’t stick. Also transfer your cookies to a cooling rack immediately after baking.
- If you don’t want to bake all the cookies at once, pop cookie dough balls into the freezer! They’ll keep for up to three months, and you can thaw them out and bake anytime.
Nutrition Information
Just finished baking a batch of these. Delicious! I only baked one cookie sheet and will freeze the rest for later! Will be great to have them available for a quick snack when the craving hits!
Thanks, Marta! They are great cookies!
These are the best. Love chocolate and peanut butter together.
These are addicting! The chocolate and reese’s pieces are a great combination!
Love that these are made with a cake mix. They are so easy & soft & we have plenty of reeses pieces from Halloween. I know what I need to make today!!
What a delicious way to use up leftover Halloween candy! I love these!
I am a Reese’s Pieces freak so these are hands down my favorite cookies ever. They’re chewy, they’re chocolatey, they’re perfect!
The chocolate peanut butter combo is simply irresistible and love the addition of the colors!
about how many people does this serve?
It only makes a couple dozen, so it just depends on how many cookies you want per person.
Just made these and they are so easy and tasty!! My kiddos loved them
Looks great!
Looks delish!