Cake Mix Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies

Submitted by grandma2969

"The use of a cake mix makes this really super fast and easy and delicious! This came from the back of a Duncan Hines cake mix--the only brand I use. You can use your favorite brand of candy coated peanut butter pieces, I use Reese's."

 

• Ready In: 17mins
• Ingredients: 5
• Yields: 3 1/2 dozen cookies

ingredients

• 19 1⁄4 ounces devil's food cake mix
• 3⁄4 cup crunchy peanut butter
• 2 large eggs
• 2 tablespoons milk
• 1 cup peanut butter, pieces coated

directions

1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
2. Grease, lightly spray or line 2 cookie sheets with parchment paper.set aside.
3. Mix all ingredients at low speed -- except peanut butter pieces --.
4. Stir in Reese's peanut butter pieces (candy coated).
5. Drop by small scoop onto prepared sheets.
6. I use cookie scoops for all my cookies.but would guess we are talking about 1/8 th of a cup.or so --.
7. Bake 7-9 minutes or lightly browned and set around edges. Do not over bake.
8. Let cool on cookie sheet on wire rack for 2 minutes and then remove to rack to cool completely -- .

Reviews

[Kathy R.]

Very easy to make & great! I did not did not add the candy to the dough. Rather after the cookies were baked, I immediately added a Peanut Butter Cup to the top. (I pushed them in a bit.) Once the PB cups were set-up, I put them away! The idea was to make the usual peanut butter cup cookies, in a round tin, much easier. Well, this did!!! I will use it again

 

[Husker Fan]

Wow! These are very rich, so luckily I can't eat the whole batch! Very easy to make, and I love the fact you can taste the peanut butter more than the chocolate. (Especially since I'm not a chocolate fan).

 

[wm386]

super easy, a real "kid favorite". I manually dot the cookies with candy instead of mixing in mix. thanks