These soft, chocolatey Reese’s Cookies, stuffed with fancy peanut butter cups galore, will have you dreaming of dessert all day long! With the classic duo of sweet and salty, they’re the ultimate scrumdiddlyumptious treat! Plus, with just 4 ingredients, they’re so easy to make!
Reese’s Cookies
The allure of a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup is practically legendary.
Somehow, you just find yourself magnetically attracted over and over again to this magical chocolate and peanut butter candy creation.
So what should you do when confronted with such a delightful temptation?
Go next-level, and make your favorite candy even better by excessively jam-packing it into soft chocolate Reese’s cookies!
Erin writes: "My family loved them! We all fought for the last one."
Trust me, cramming loads and loads of little peanut butter cups into chocolate cookies… this is a very very good idea!
Once you take that first bite, I know you’ll agree.
Just like when you make these peanut butter Reese’s Cup Cookies and this colossal, family sized Giant Cookie, too!
I must warn you though. Once these little beauties pop out of the oven… they have a tendency to magically disappear without a trace! So be sure to watch out for all of those cookie monsters lurking around your home!
This audacious cookie really is that tempting!
But if these Reese’s cookies do vanish a little too quickly, you do have one consolation. This chocolate cookie recipe just so happens to be crazy easy to make. And by easy, I mean you’ll just need 4 ingredients and a few minutes for prep, thanks to a genius cake mix short cut.
Believe me, if you haven’t enjoyed the ease of baking up some of my easy Cake Mix Cookies Recipes, you really owe it to yourself to try. You’ll be rewarded with perfectly soft and chewy cookies, in the most hassle free way possible!
So let’s make some Reese’s cookie dough magic, shall we?
Here’s what you’ll need to get baking…
Reese’s Cookie Ingredients
To bake up a batch of these homemade Reese’s cookies with cake mix, just round up these easy to find ingredients at your local Walmart grocery store…
- Cake Mix
- Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups Minis
- Butter – Vegetable Oil or Canola Oil can be substituted.
- Eggs
No kidding, with just 4 ingredients these Reese’s cookies truly are one of the EASIEST Christmas dessert recipes ever!
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Today, go ahead and enjoy yourself some lazy baking when you fashion that mound of cake mix cookie dough into a Reese’s cookies sensation.
Here’s what you’ll do…
1. Mix up your cookie dough.
2. Stir in Reese’s minis, then chill in refrigerator.
3. After the dough has chilled, roll the dough into small balls, and place each cookie ball on a cookie sheet.
4. Bake in oven, then allow to cool on wire racks.
Then, once your Reese’s cookies have cooled, go ahead and grab that first cookie and devour it!!!
Believe me, easy cookie recipes with few ingredients and minimal prep like this… are the perfect way to satisfy your homemade cookie cravings!
Scroll down for the printable recipe card with detailed, step-by-step instructions.
Make Ahead Reese’s Cookie Tips
These cake mix Reese’s cookies are SO easy to prep ahead of time! Your Reese’s cookie dough can be made ahead of time, then stored covered in the refrigerator up to 2 days prior to baking your cookies.
Want your chocolate cookie dough to last even longer? Just follow my simple step-by-step instructions for How to Freeze Cookies!
How to Store Reese’s Cookies
After baked, you can store these scrumptious Reese’s cookies at room temperature in an airtight container for up to 3 days.
Reese’s Cookies Variations
Want to change things up a bit? Go for it!
Here are a few of my favorite variations for these Reese’s cookies…
1. Chocolate Peanut Butter Chip Cookies – swap the Peanut Butter Cups out for Reese’s Peanut Butter Chips.
2. Reese’s Pieces Cookies – swap the Peanut Butter Cups out for Reese’s Pieces.
3. Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies – swap the better Peanut Butter Cups out for Peanut Butter M&M’s.
How To Make Reese’s Cookies Gift in a Jar
In addition to making these Reese’s cookies for gifting and for your cookie exchange cookies, they can be fashioned into a fabulous and frugal dry cookie mix gift in a jar to give to your friends and family!
Giving delicious candy infused cookies is the gift everyone will love… and it’s about to become very very easy!
Here’s how you can make some up as gifts…
1. Carefully empty entire contents of cake mix package into a Quart sized Wide Mouth Mason Jar.
2. Gently pack down.
3. Pour in Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups.
4. Using your jar’s lid topper, trace a circle on your scrapbook paper, then cut out.
5. Put the silver jar topper on top, place your circle cut from scrapbook paper on top, then screw on the jar’s lid.
6. Tie a bow with ribbon or raffia around the middle of the jar, and you’re done!
Give this as a cookie monster approved gift to friends, family, foodies, coworkers, or neighbors!
This cookie mix can be made up to 4 weeks ahead of time, and stored in a pantry or cool, dark cupboard.
Reese’s Cookie Mix Baking Instructions
Attach a label (or add the instructions to the top of the jar’s lid) with the following baking instructions:
1. Whisk together 2 Eggs + 1/3 cup Melted Butter in large bowl.
2. Pour in entire contents of jar, and stir well with spoon.
3. Chill dough in refrigerator for 2 hours.
4. Form cookie dough balls & bake on parchment lined cookie sheets.
5. Bake at 350 degrees for 7 – 13 minutes, or until done.
Reese’s Cookies Reviews
What Your Frugal Friends Are Saying About This Reese’s Cookies made with Cake Mix Recipe…
Emily writes: “Super easy to make! Very delicious.”
Erin writes: “I made these because we needed a simply out of the ordinary dessert. My family loved them! They were gone at the end and we all fought for the last one.”
Kelly writes: “I used Reeses Sugar Free peanut butter cups and Pillsbury Sugar Free devil’s food cake. I quartered the peanut butter cups. I added 1 tsp of vanilla extract to the mixture. They were absolutely delicious.”
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Reese’s Cookies
Ingredients
- 13.25 ounces Betty Crocker Chocolate Fudge Cake Mix , (if using a 15.25 oz. box, increase butter to 1/2 cup)
- 1/3 Cup Melted Butter, (Vegetable or Canola Oil can be substituted)
- 2 large Eggs
- 7.6 ounces Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups Minis , (or more if you're feeling wild)
Instructions
- Gather your ingredients.
- Combine Cake Mix, Melted Butter (or oil), and Eggs in large mixing bowl, and mix with hand mixer or stand mixer until well combined.
- Stir in Reese's Minis with large wooden spoon.
- Cover dough and chill in refrigerator for 2 hours.
- After dough has chilled, preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Line large baking sheets with parchment paper.
- Roll cookie dough into 1 1/2 tablespoon sized rounded balls and transfer to cookie sheet.
- Bake on center oven rack for 7 – 13 minutes, or until done. (Note: Bake on the shorter end of the time range for non-stick cookie sheets & longer end of the time range for aluminum cookie sheets.)
- Remove from oven and allow to cool on cookie sheets for 5 minutes.
- Transfer cookies to wire racks to finish cooling, and ENJOY!
Notes
- *Where To Find: You can buy Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups Minis at Walmart, Target or on Amazon.
- Substitution Tip: If you cannot locate any of the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups Minis, you can substitute 1 1/4 cups of other chopped smaller sized Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups.
- Butter: When it comes to Cake Mix Cookies, salted or unsalted butter can be used, as the cake mix will have a little salt in it. However, I’ve found that salted butter will result in superior flavor.
- FAQ’s: For answers to Frequently Asked Questions or tips for common substitutions and variations, please refer to the detailed information above this recipe card.
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You dont have to add the water in the cake mix? Its very thick and sticky..?
Hi Samantha ~ no… you will not add any water. Chill the dough in the refrigerator at least 15 minutes prior to baking. Hope that helps! 😉
How many cookies does this recipe yield?
Hi Laura ~ approximately 2 dozen, give or take. 😉
Just made these and they are huuuuge! And delicious!! :-). I think I need to bake them a little longer next time because they turned out a little underdone (I baked them about 12 minutes, but they were big so more time makes sense). Thanks for sharing such a yummy & easy recipe!
You’re very welcome… I’m so glad you enjoyed them! And yes, if making larger cookie dough balls, you’ll definitely want to add a bit of time to the bake time.
O.M.G!!! Cannot wait to try!
They’re SO easy, Terri… I hope you love them! 😉