These Gluten Free, Chewy Peanut Butter Cup Cookies taste like Reese’s Cups in cookie form! A chewy peanut butter batter is filled with milk chocolate chips for the perfect bite.
Good Lord these cookies were sent straight from Heaven (via Dorothy at Crazy for Crust, obviously)! I saw Dorothy’s overloaded peanut butter cookies the other day, which, she claimed, “are the best peanut butter cookies ever.” Well you know I had to try them (that very night)!
It was a miracle that I made any cookies at all given the obscene quantity of dough I ate. Oops.
My addition of milk chocolate chips to this rich peanut butter batter makes them taste just like Reese’s Peanut butter cups. But not just any Reese’s cups. No, no. Those ones that they sell right before holidays have triple the peanut butter and the same amount of chocolate. You know like the ones in the shape of Easter eggs! Those are my favorite.
This could be one reason that I could not stop eating these Peanut Butter Cup Cookies. Could. Not. Stop.
Under pressure from the Wedding Fairy, I reluctantly gave some away and then put the rest in the freezer. Yeah, the freezer was no deterrent. None whatsoever. They taste deliciously frozen. And thawed from frozen.
The last remaining crumb just disappeared. And you know how I feel? Disappointed! How can you resist that?
You must be stronger than I. Oh, and they’re ridiculously easy. Ridiculously. Dorothy says a child can do it. While I was unable to test that theory, I believe it because these are outrageously easy to make!
Recipe
Chewy Peanut Butter Cup Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup peanut butter (I use Jiff, because it’s amazing.)
- 1 egg
- ½ cup dark brown sugar (loosely packed)
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ¾ cup Ghirardelli Milk Chocolate Chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F and line baking sheets with parchment paper.
- Throw the first five ingredients in a bowl and mix with a hand mixer until well blended. Stir in chocolate chips. Feel free to add more chocolate chips if the moment is right. Wasn’t that crazy easy? Tap your foot in impatience until the oven actually finishes preheating.
- Scoop ~2 tablespoon sized balls of dough onto baking sheet and space them 2 inches apart. If you want pretty, uniform cookies, you should actually form them into balls. If you want a more artistic cookie, just drop them on the cookie sheet. Press down with a fork to flatten slightly.
- Bake 8-11 minutes. I baked mine for 9 minutes but I am a habitual underbaker. Let cool on the cookie sheet before removing.
- Try not to eat them all in one sitting.
Recipe from Crazy for Crust
I made these today and subbed the peanut butter for almond butter. I think I ate 4 .... they were so chewy! Great and easy recipe!
What a great idea! I'm glad you liked them and that I am not alone in my inability to resist their chewy charms! I re-read the instructions five times in the kitchen because I kept thinking, "surely it can't be *that* easy!"
They look absolutely fabulous! I love peanut butter and chocolate.
It's definitely up there on the perfect culinary combination list! Well, on mine anyways!
Peanut butter cookies are one of my fav! Woo and it has chocolate chips too..yum!! I kind of feel bad for people that have nut allergies.
So...I am wondering, after your big day is over and the Wedding Fairy disappears, will you be indulging in whatever, however much you want?
BTW you are mentioned in one of my recent blog posts.
I feel bad for people with any allergies. How miserable?! For a brief moment in time my Dr. thought that I had a gluten allergy, and you would have thought someone told me I had cancer. I was so upset.
I have a white tie ball in St. Louis in December, but after that it's gunna be a free for all! 😉 Well, at least for a while...
I'll have to go find it! Like a grown up scavanger hunt!
These look so darn good, I don't know how you even got to keep some of them in the freezer, like, I would have eaten them all in one go... peanut butter cookies are so amazing! 😀 Pinning this, I need to make them now!
They really are outstanding! What I didn't say was that I made them one day, promptly ate the majority of the cookies, and then the next day decided I needed a cookie intervention. So I gave some away and then threw the rest in the freezer, but I ate the frozen ones that night! The takeaway here is that fighting one's willpower with these cookies is futile!
Just saw these on FG and then realized that Dorothy linked to me in the recipe that you linked to of hers! Needless to say, I love these cookies! The texture is picture perfect! Mmmm, I want!
Yours look amazing too! When I made the comment about being a habitual underbaker, I thought of you. Cross my heart. 🙂
I live in fear of the wedding fairy *gulp*
These cookies look AMAZE-INGGG! I totally know what you mean about how the holiday Reese's are best because there's more peanut butter 😉
She is terrifying! These cookies Are. So. Good. I think those holiday Reese's are my exception to the more chocolate is more rule.
They are SO good aren't they??? I need to make more! Thanks for the linky love!
Of course! It is taking all my willpower not to make more!