These Overloaded Reese’s Peanut Butter Pudding Cookies are a sweet peanut butter cookie full of Reese’s Pieces and Chunks of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups.
Last Sunday, when I got ready to head to Iceland, I was swamped with client deadlines. Though I was beyond exhausted, I’m a crazy person and decided to throw in a batch of these cookies too! I mean, who bakes cookies for fun when they have a million other things they should be doing… this girl!
But I made them for another reason too. You see, this was the longest I’d been away from Matt since the spring of 2009 and I wanted to leave him sweet treats to get by without me. Also, I apparently felt like ruining his tuna fish diet he had planned for the week. But seriously, how was he going to survive without my baked goods for 6 days? Probably just fine, but I like to think it made a difference. Plus, tuna fish sandwiches are kinda boring.
I’ve had a 6 pack of Reese’s kicking around for months with these cookies in mind and I figured it was time to finally make them happen. But I couldn’t stop with just the cups, because that would be lame, we had to deck these cookies out with some Reese’s Pieces too. Sure, it’s a bit of a peanut butter overload, but I knew they’d hit the spot for Matty. Plus, I was headed to an island filled with unique food and a menu of American Chop Suey and Peanut Butter Cookies sounded like a good send off meal.
So if you’re a peanut butter lover, you’re going to go crazy over these cookies. They’re super soft and chewy on the inside with a slight crisp to the outside and then loaded up with all kinds of Reese’s goodness!
Overloaded Reese's Peanut Butter Pudding Cookies
Ingredients
- ½ cup 1 stick Unsalted Butter (room temp)
- ½ cup Peanut Butter
- ¼ cup Sugar
- ¾ Light Brown Sugar
- 1 3.4 oz. package Instant Vanilla Pudding Powder
- 2 Eggs
- 1 Additional Egg Yolk
- 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
- 2 cups Flour
- 1 tsp Baking Soda
- ½ tsp Salt
- 1 cup Mini Reese's Pieces
- 6 Reese's Peanut Butter Cups chopped
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 F.
- Line cookie sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
- Cream butters and sugars together until smooth.
- Add pudding, eggs, additional egg yolk and vanilla. Beat for about one minute on medium speed.
- In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking soda, and salt.
- Add dry ingredients to the wet ingredients a ½ cup at a time and mix until combined.
- Fold in Reese's Pieces and 3/4 of the chopped Reese's cups.
- Roll into tbsp sized balls and place on prepared cookie sheet about two inches apart.
- Press in additional pieces of chopped Reese's cups.
- Bake for 11-13 minutes.
- Cool on pan for a couple of minutes before transferring to a cooling rack.
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creativejewishmom/sara says
wow looks really amazing! so nice to “meet” you on craft schooling Sunday, thanks for sharing!
Linda says
A,mazing cookies!! Pinned, of course. Beautiful photos also. Your friend, Linda @Crafts a la mode