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Peanut Butter Cup Chocolate Cake Mix Cookies

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.

Quick and Easy 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.

A Peanut Butter Chocolate Cookie Recipe

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.

How to Make Peanut Butter Cup Chocolate Cake Mix Cookies:

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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Peanut Butter Cup Chocolate Cake Mix Cookies

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  • Author: Cookies & Cups
  • 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

Scale
  • 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

  1. Preheat oven to 350°
  2. With your mixer, beat together cake mix, oil and eggs until combined.
  3. Pour in entire bag of Reese’s Minis.
  4. Mix on low until Reese’s are evenly incorporated.
  5. Roll the dough into tablespoon sized balls and place n a parchment lined baking sheet about 2″ apart. Cookies will spread.
  6. 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

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84 comments on “Peanut Butter Cup Chocolate Cake Mix Cookies”

  1. Fabulous! Loved how easy they were and you are right- would never have guessed these came from a cake mix!

  2. Loved these! The dough is thick and my electric hand mixer couldn’t quite do the job. Of course it was no problem for the stand mixer.
    Thanks for the recipe!

  3. These were really good but I had to add in a little more oil and do the mixing in of the peanut butter cups by hand.

  4. I’m a stay-at-home mom and lover of everything sweet, easy, and affordable. Also, chocolate. Did I mention chocolate? I love your blog. Your down-to-earth approach and willingness to not allow others to dictate how you run your life/or back your cookies! is refreshing. Thanks for blogging! I’ll be making these awesome pb scrumtious-ness later.

  5. Super yummy!! I used a hand mixer which began straining and giving off that motor burning up smell so I ended up stirring in PB cups by hand…next time will just use the KitchenAid it shouldn’t have a problem. Loved these cookies! Thank you

  6. Lisa @ Floating Along...

    These cookies are amazing! I made them last weekend for a football party and they are almost entirely gone already! My only mistake was printing off the recipe and NOT reading the part about the UNwrapped reese’s mini’s. It only took about 10 minutes to unwrap all mine, but I will certainly skip that part next time!! 😀 Thanks for the recipe!

  7. SOOO GOOD!! After I gave one to my sister, she came out of her room and said, “Where are they?” Haha thank you for an amazing idea!!

  8. I baked these up a few days ago and they were delicious! Simple and very few ingredients required…Thanks for yet another great recipe!

  9. Just made these cookies. As previously noted in other posts, was a little difficult to mix. I was starting to wonder if I missed a step or did something wrong in the process. But in the end, they were delicious and gooey and wonderful! Will definitely make again. 🙂

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