Peanut Butter Cup Crack Brownies are completely over the top in the best way possible! Soft, fudgy brownies, with a layer of peanut butter cups, topped with a thick crispy peanut butter chocolate layer!
If you love brownies make sure to try my favorite Homemade Brownies Recipe!
What Are Peanut Butter Cup Crack Brownies?
These Peanut Butter Cup Crack Brownies are the dessert you should bring to any event where you want to seriously impress people. I can’t even begin to describe their deliciousness. They are consistently one of the most popular recipes on my website for good reason, EVERYONE LOVES THEM! You have a fudgy brownie with a layer of peanut butter cups and chopped peanuts sandwiched between crispy chocolate peanut butter fudge. Over the top? YES. Delicious and easy? Absolutely!
Ingredients:
- 1 box brownie mix
- honey roasted peanuts
- peanut butter cups
- semi-sweet chocolate chips
- butter
- creamy peanut butter
- Rice Krispie cereal
- vanilla
- kosher salt
How To Make Peanut Butter Cup Crack Brownies:
So I started with a box of Ghirardelli Double Chocolate Brownies… they are some of my favorite boxed brownies. While they were baking I chopped up some peanut butter cups and honey roasted peanuts.
When your brownie has 5 minutes left to bake pull it out of the oven and sprinkle your peanut butter cups and peanuts all over the top. The chocolate will melt and then you can use an off-set spatula to spread the chocolate evenly on top.
Set all that aside and then in a microwave safe bowl combine chocolate chips, peanut butter and butter in a bowl and melt it in the microwave until smooth. Then stir in some vanilla, salt and krispie cereal. Pour that on top of the brownies and spread evenly.
Now chill the brownies for 2 hours, until the top layer is set.
Here Are Some More Brownies Recipes To Try:
- M&Ms Brownies
- Cookies and Cream Stuffed Brownies
- Marshmallow Brownies
- Bombshell Oreo Brownies
- Sweet and Salty Brownies
Peanut Butter Cup Crack Brownies
Description
Peanut Butter Cup Crack Brownies are completely over the top in the best way possible! Soft, fudgy brownies, with a layer of peanut butter cups, topped with a thick crispy peanut butter chocolate layer!
Ingredients
- 1 box brownie mix (not family sized), prepared according to package directions in a 9×9 pan
- 1/2 cup chopped salted or honey roasted peanuts
- 12 peanut butter cups, chopped
- 2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 1/4 cups creamy peanut butter
- 1 3/4 cups Rice Krispie cereal
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
Instructions
- Bake the brownies according to package directions in a 9×9 pan lined with foil.
- During last 5 minutes of baking, remove from oven and sprinkle chopped peanut butter cups and chopped peanuts on top. Return to oven for remaining 5 minutes to melt the chocolate.
- As soon as you pull them out of the oven, spread the melty peanut butter cups/peanuts with an off-set spatula to smooth over top. Let brownies cool.
- Next in a microwave safe bowl combine chocolate chips, peanut butter and butter. Heat in microwave for 1 minute, stirring when done. If needed, continue heating in 20 second increments until chocolate chips are melted.
- Stir in cereal, vanilla and salt until evenly combined.
- Pour over brownies and smooth. Chill until chocolate is set, about 2 hours.
- Cut into squares to serve
Notes
Store airtight for up to 3 days. You can store these at room temperature or in refrigerator.
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I have found that whenever I mix crispy cereal with melted chocolate chips, they get soggy. Does anyone have a tip on how to keep them crispy? What am I doing wrong?
Are you using Rice Krispy cereal or a different brand?
I don’t know if I can forgive you for these, they are so good. I saw this recipe on Facebook and made them, making sure I put together a little bag for a friend who loves peanut butter cups as much as I do. I took a bag for my friends in a fishing trip, and a bag for my friend. Both bags were eaten. Guess my friend is SOL. Thank you for this evil!
hahahaa! Love this!
Made these for our Daytona party today and they were a huge hit! Everyone agreed that that dry roasted peanuts help keep them from being overly sweet! I came home with an empty plate an many compliments. Thank you for sharing this great recipe!
Hi Shelly! I’m making these tonight with a friend for the first time! I’ve wanted to make them forever, but always wanted a good “reason”. Well my friend and I decided who needs a reason! Can’t wait to try them!
So does anyone know how many calories this is??
Is there any reason I couldn’t make the make these with the family- sized box of brownies and then just increase the other ingredients?
BEST BROWNIES IVE EVER HAD! I just made these the other day and could have eaten the entire pan by myself. I used snickers in place of the peanuts. Other than that I followed the exact recipe and they turned out amazing. Seriously these are my new favorite brownies. Thank you!!
I’m finding this recipe name really misleading – “crack” isn’t even on the ingredient list!
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Made these today. MY NEW FAVORITE BROWNIES! These are seriously amazing! I can’t stop eating them. I left out the peanuts but chopped up snickers and mixed that with Reese’s instead. So good. I’ve never left a comment before on any site but these were too good not to. Thanks for sharing! 🙂