Buckeye Brownie Cookies
Well, let me tell you guys, I am lucky to be alive right now.
Yes, of course that is a dramatic statement.
But let me tell you the story…
So the other night I was home alone minding my own business…the husband took my little guys to their respective sporting activities…
Anyway, I was busy baking cookies and suddenly I heard an unfamiliar cell phone ringing.
FROM THE BACK OF MY HOUSE!
So yeah, I got scared, convinced that an intruder had broken in and was hiding out, just waiting until my husband left to murder me…
But his cell phone gave him away.
I started panicking, grabbed my phone and a kitchen knife and started walking…wait for it…
TOWARDS THE NOISE.
WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME?
Turns out that the noise was my kid’s iPod “ringing” because he friend was face-timing him.
Luckily I didn’t stab my dog or my foot in the meantime…
Anyhow, the realization that I am the stupid girl who gets killed first in horror movies, is not an easy pill to swallow.
I wouldn’t stand a chance against a murderer person.
Luckily, though, I didn’t get killed and am here today to share these cookies with you.
Theeeeesssse Buckeye Brownie Cookies.
They are brownie cookies stuffed with a peanut butter ball and topped with chocolate frosting.
So yeah. They are quite good.
AND I made a short little video to show you how I made them!
Here’s what you do…
Mix up a box of brownie mix with some cream cheese, melted butter and an egg…
It’ll be sticky and thick. I actually used my hands to mix it together.
Then mix up some peanut butter and powdered sugar…
It’ll come together like this…
Form the brownie dough into balls and make an indentation in the top.
Then roll the peanut butter into balls also and press those into the brownie dough…
Press them down slightly.
And bake them just like that…
They will look kinda the same before and after baking. The cookie won’t spread too much and the peanut butter ball pretty much stays intact.
Once they’re cooled, I spread some chocolate frosting on top. Here’s my recipe for Easy Fudge Frosting.
That’s it.
I even sprinkled a bit of flaked seas salt on top, but you don’t have to.
They look pretty unassuming at first glance.
But the inside is kind of magic…
You need to make these.
- 1 box (18-19 oz) Brownie mix
- ¼ cup butter, melted
- ½ cup cream cheese, room temperature
- 1 egg
- ¾ cup peanut butter
- ¾ cup powdered sugar
- ¾ cup chocolate frosting
- Preheat oven to 350°
- Line baking sheet with parchment paper.
- In a medium bowl combine brownie mix, butter, cream cheese and egg. Stir until dough comes together, it will be very thick and sticky. I used my hands.
- Form rounded tablespoons sized portions of dough into balls, placing on baking sheet about 2 inches apart, making an indentation with your thumb in the center of each.
- In another bowl stir together peanut butter and powdered sugar. Form peanut butter into teaspoon sized balls and press into the indentations in the brownie cookies.
- Press peanut butter down slightly because the peanut butter won't spread and you don't want the cookies to be too tall.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes until edges are set.
- Transfer to wire rack to cool.
- When cooled top each cookie with about a tablespoon of chocolate frosting.
Adapted from Pillsbury
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92 Comments on "Buckeye Brownie Cookies"
You’ve done it again! Holy cow do these look superbly amazing.
Well I’m so glad you’re safe. HA! These cookies look absolutely marvelous!
Glad your safe and still coming up with amazing recipes!!
Being from Ohio Buckeye’s are our favorite! Stuffing them inside brownies though? That’s just genius!
Just saw your post on Facebook with the link to this recipe. Sounds so yummy and now I’m having a 9:30 am dessert craving!
These look waaaaaaaaaaaaaay too good to be true!
Glad your here to tell us your story and to share these fabulous cookies!
Magic, indeed. I love these!
These look amazing but can I ask why the bowl needs to be microwave safe? Did my reading comprehension skills fail me again and I missed a step where the mixture needs to be nuked? Or is it just because you used the bowl to melt the butter before adding the other ingredients? That thought just occurred to me and I’m tempted not to post, but I’m still curious!
Oy, this feels like Monday. haha
Ahh yes! You are correct.. I guess I didn’t explain that very well!!
Can you xplain how you made this…my brownie batter was room loose to make into balls….what’s the deal about a microwave bowl and melting the butter first…help I want to make these for friends for thanksgiving….they love regular buckeyex
If your batter was not thick enough, maybe you didn’t use the right size Brownie Mix? The batter should be very thick. Also, you just melt the butter first in the microwave before adding it in to the dry brownie mix.
try useing butter at room temp just soft not melted might help.
I’m trying to make these now and I’m having the same problem, the box of brownies is 18.4 , I can make a ball at all so what I’m doing now is a quick chill to hopefully thicken it a little but unsure how it’ll bake
Sorry..not room loose but real loose
Try using half the butter some time i use part banana in stead of useing so much butter
this looks so over the top sweet I got a tooth ache just reading the recipe…no thanks…too much goo…
Whoa. This is full of so much goodness!! Yum!
Yum! As a native of Ohio I love anything that tastes like a buckeye!
These look so yummy. Do you think I could use my homemade brownie recipe and just add the cream cheese to it. Your comments please.
Well, I’m not sure, I would omit any liquid going into your brownie mix, so they don’t spread so much…but I bet it would work! Let me know if you try it out!
LOL! Well, alternatively it would have been embarrassing if you’d fled the house & called the cops, & they came to arrest an i-pod. 😛
These look so yummy!! My sister went to OSU so these are right up her alley! I am actually on my way to Ohio today. 🙂
Hilarious but I’m glad it wasn’t an intruder 😉 And man, I’d love one of these cookies!
You are such a crack-up!
That WOULD be scary! Kind of like when your kids toys suddenly start playing in the middle of the night? Seriously scary! Buckeye’s are my absolute favorite thing to eat, but they take so long! Love this is easy, quick version!
These are freaking amazing. Perfect for March madness!
Sounds so scary!! I would have been crouched with the knife, crying in my closet until someone came home…and told me how ridiculous I am. 😉 Glad you’re still alive. I’d need a cookie too after that!
Nothing like a facetime to bring out the fear in a home alone mom. Kids these days…
Now that’s a way to eat a brownie! My only issue would be saving the pnut butter mixture for the brownies, LOVE ME SOME PNUT BUTTER!
I just followed you on bloglovin, so I guess I’m an official stalker…!
hahaha! Yay! I just started using bloglovin and I really like it!
Has anyone told you that not only are your creations sinful and delicious, but they’re bad for diets?
I doubled the recipe and first batch just went into the oven! Cannot wait to try em!
Mmmmmmm. Looks delish and you’ve combined some of my faves. Chocolate, PB, and salt.
Oh Lordy! Look at those. They look amazing! Of course I pinned them. Thanks
Ohhh lord have mercy….I would have died. After the trauma, I would have then eaten all the cookies….GREAT.
Oh my I would have panicked. I am often home alone at night and would not like that at all. Just a quick question do you use a macro lens for your nice pictures? I would be interested in knowing. I like what you do.
I actually don’t…I use a Canon 1.8 50mm fixed lens…
Thanks so much!
Why yes, I DO need to make these. I love buckeyes!
I would have been like you and went towards the sound…but at least you didn’t already call 911! These cookies look so decadent! Giving them some PIN action onto my cookie board. (=
Magic, for certain! These look amazing, Shelly!
I still jump like that whenever my ipad makes any kind of sound. And I’ve had it a year now…don’t think I”m ever going to get used to it!
Peanut butter and chocolate = my kind of cookie.
Hi! I just made these with your frosting and they are soooooooo delicious! ! The best parts of a brownie and a buckeye and made into one awesome cookie!! Thank you for posting this recipe!
Oh man, these look amazing! All that dark chocolate plus pb? Crazy awesome!
PS, Glad you didn’t die 🙂
Ridiculously amazing looking as usual! I wonder what would happen if you offered some of these to the murderer. 😉 “Kill me if you must, but please try some of this chocolate & peanut butter happiness first!”
Oh my gosh, that story is too funny!!!! I probably would have done the same thing. Or actually, I take that back. I’d run and get my neighbors and made them check!
These cookies look amazing!!
Ohhh I love buckeyes! These look incredible!
Okay, I giggled hysterically at this story. So funny. Yummy cookies too!
Get outttttt. Why do you do such things to me?!
It’s inevitable… you always go toward danger. That’s why I will be walking straight to the pantry to pull out the ingredients to make these brownies!!
Welp, obviously I’m making these this weekend. I sometimes think there isn’t any possible peanut butter and chocolate recipes I haven’t discovered and then the internet proves me wrong.
Okay…I don’t know much, but if you’ve ever ever ever taken any advice from me, take this. NEVER EVER EVER walk toward the noise. Make your husband do it, LOL! These look wonderful!
I’m glad you lived through the attack of the ipod so you could give us this recipe. It’s the perfect recipe for my husband and I. He loves peanut butter and I love chocolate. And it’s got just enough of the peanut butter to keep me from eating all of them.
As a native Buckeye, I am going to make these as I watch my team win their final FOUR game tonight AND onto the championship!!!! (keeping my fingers crossed)
I’m right there with you — I would either go toward to noise and be killed or form a puddle as I melt with fear, and be killed. Either way, unless my kids were in danger, I wouldn’t be much help. Glad you can laugh about it now (after your knees stop shaking.) LOVE your recipes and blog!
OMGosh these sound so wonderful ……I love your recipes ….and I use them with my seniors all the time and they Love it Thanks for giving me great resources and make the seniors I work with have good recipes to still share with their daughters. Linda @ Activity Directors Sharing Ideas on Facebook ……see the wonderful stuff we have been doing with your recipes =)
i started making 1 batch & it didn’t seem like enough, so i grabbed another box of brownie mix to make a 2nd batch, but the 2nd batch was even gooey-er than the 1st… i thought i had done something wrong, turns out 1st batch was basic brownie mix, 2nd batch was ‘fudge’ brownie mix – oy!!!
Oh, now this is just evil.
Brilliant. I definitely will try these and share with my friend from Ohio who makes Buckeyes every Christmas. Great idea!
I cannot pass up anything “buckeye”, ever. Awesome cookies!
Oh how I laughed at the image of you stalking the intruder. I need these. Now. I am a peanut butter ball lover (uh, not buckeyes here, but I shall forgive you your transgressions), and brownie cookies call my name. I guess I know what I’m doing with the peanut butter I just bought last weekend now.