Peanut Butter Cup Chocolate Cake Mix Cookies – these sweet treats, a classic blend of peanut butter and chocolate, will melt in your mouth. If you’ve been searching for an easy chocolate dessert, look no further than these cake mix cookies.
So here we are in the middle of “Busy people need sweets that start with cake mix week”.
It’s a thing. Read up about it HERE.
I certainly hope you are not offended by my use of cake mixes.
Because, I will tell you, people get all angry about preservatives and stuff.
I have gotten my fair share of emails telling me that shortening is the devil’s foot cream and how cake mixes are for the lazy.
Without sounding like a complete jerky-jerk…I bet that shortening would make a tremendously successful foot cream and cake mixes are for the BUSY not the lazy.
If you’re looking for health food, I am afraid that you have come to the wrong place.
While I certainly try and eat a balanced diet, I do “on-occasion” indulge in the sweet treat.
Use this blog as your “occasional indulgence handbook”.
Dude, that’s a really good name. Kinda better than cookies and cups.
Wish I had thought of that a few years ago.
Anyway, if you are much too fancy to use cake mixes, then stop reading now.
It’s ok. We can just agree to disagree.
BUT if you’re my peeps, let’s get our cake mix on because it’s “Busy people need sweets that start with cake mix week”!
Oh yeah.
So as most of you all know, Peanut Butter Cups are like my most favorite ingredient. They have yet to disappoint in a recipe or a poor snacking decision.
Here is the star player today… best invention of the new millennium (screw the iPad)… the Mini Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup.
All unwrapped and ready to be devoured by the handful.
These cookies are super simple.
Start with a chocolate cake mix, some vegetable or canola oil and eggs…mix it up.
When the dough is smooth throw in your bag of Reese’s. Give it another mix…just enough for the Reese’s to incorporate and break up a little.
Roll them into balls and bake on a parchment lined baking sheet…
That’s it!
They’ll look like this…
People will love them and bow at your feet and never once think that you used a cake mix.
And, I am all about people bowing at my feet.
*If you want a Valentines’s spin on a similar cake mix cookie recipe, check out THESE from The Sweet Adventures of Sugarbelle!
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- Prep Time: 15 min
- Cook Time: 8 min
- Total Time: 23 min
- Yield: 24 cookies 1x
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Oven
- Cuisine: American
Description
Peanut Butter Cup Chocolate Cake Mix Cookies – these sweet treats, a classic blend of peanut butter and chocolate, will melt in your mouth. If you’ve been searching for an easy chocolate dessert, look no further than these cake mix cookies.
Ingredients
- 1 (18.25 oz) box chocolate cake mix
- 2 eggs
- 1/3 cup canola or vegetable oil
- 1 8 oz bag Reese’s Minis
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°
- With your mixer, beat together cake mix, oil and eggs until combined.
- Pour in entire bag of Reese’s Minis.
- Mix on low until Reese’s are evenly incorporated.
- Roll the dough into tablespoon sized balls and place n a parchment lined baking sheet about 2″ apart. Cookies will spread.
- Bake for 8-9 minutes.
Notes
The Reese’s will break when you beat them into the cookie batter..you want there to be chunks of peanut butter cups, but they will break apart.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cookie
- Calories: 170
- Sugar: 13.9 g
- Sodium: 184.5 mg
- Fat: 8.1 g
- Carbohydrates: 22.8 g
- Protein: 2.3 g
- Cholesterol: 16.1 mg
I JUST discovered your blog today, and I think you just might be the death of me. Happy, sugary, buttery death.
i’m so trying this but i think i’ll use the hershey bites instead of the pb ones (since i’m not a pb fan, i know, completely unamerican)…LOVE how easy it is…and i’m so getting some lard for my feet…
I love cake mix cookies – and I think most people do! (A cake mix cookie from 3 years ago is the most popular post on my blog right now!!) I love the addition of the Reeses.
I love cake mix recipes!!! Long live the cake mix…and peanut butter cups:-)
I’m always in awe of how people can create such delicious cookies out of cake mix. You are the queen of it & I love it! Great recipe 🙂
These look great! I love cookies with peanut butter cups.
omg 🙂 i have everything i need to make these may have to have them for breakfast. breakfast cookies are the best.
oh my word. GIVE ME.
i’m sold – i love making stuff out of cake mixes. just means the cookies get in my belly even faster 🙂
I don’t generally use cake mixes…but I’m not AGAINST using them OR eating treats that come from the, Especially treats that involve God’s gift to candy (i.e. Reese’s).
PS – i’m making your reese’s peanut butter banana bread as I type. It’s an occasional indulgence kinda day.