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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Your blog is my recipe go-to. I know that whatever sweets I’m looking for, I can find them here. These brownies look amazing..as do all your photographs. Thanks for another great “keeper”!
wow, those look like serious trouble! fat free? lol
So much danger here… delicious danger!
*salt (not sale). LOL
I had to come to your blog to read the complete instructions. somebody passed just the recipe to me and you don’t say what to do with the salt. I found it when I read the blog post, line by line, but you might want to add that to the “How to Make” section of the recipe. I have made these already without the sale (since I didn’t know where to put it)… and they were DIVINE! Everybody wants the recipe!
sooooo, i have finally managed to round up all of the ingredients for this. they are patiently sitting in an Asda bag in my cupboard… hopefully tonight will be the night!
Can cashews be used instead?
Oh I bet that would be great!!!
What do you do with the salt?
Oopsss…..didn’t read all the way hrough the comments…..
question- i have the mini reeses. do still do 12 or should I add more?
funny I didn’t read all the comments before sending my hubby to michael’s to get a 9×9 pan. I hope to get reply before baking?
Thanks, Dina
I would add more, honestly you can’t add too many 🙂
OMG these are so incredibly WONDERFUL, I’ve made them 3 times because after I made them the first time everyone requests them !!! Just made them again this morning and noticed the last ingredient is kosher salt (somehow I have missed this every other time I’ve made them) but I don’t see where to add it. Do I sprinkle on top ? Or add to the krispie mix ?
According to the photo tutorial the salt is added in step #5 of the recipe. Hope that this helps