Peanut Butter Cup Brownies are chocolate brownies loaded with peanut butter chips and Reeses Peanut Butter Cups. Watch the video showing you how to make these brownies, then scroll to the bottom of this post and print out the recipe so you can make them at home.
Yes, those yummy little Peanut Butter Cups that we all love to devour have the starring role in this brownie. The peanut butter chips are scattered inside the brownie, giving it a good peanut butter flavor throughout. And then chunks of Reeses Peanut Butter Cups are placed all over the tops of the brownies. It’s a great combination for a peanut butter and chocolate brownie!
Ingredients for Peanut Butter Cup Brownies
Here’s the scoop on the ingredients:
You’ll need some sort of unsweetened chocolate. I used Scharffen Berger since I had some leftover from Christmas. But you can also use the more inexpensive brand in your market’s baking aisle. It won’t make much difference.
There’s also a specialty ingredient: Chocolate Extract. You can find it at Whole Foods or online, but if you’d rather not use it then just substitute vanilla. It will be fine with vanilla. The chocolate extract just gives it an extra boost of chocolate flavor.
And then for the peanut butter lovers in the house, not only are there Peanut Butter Cups in these brownies but added peanut butter and peanut butter chips too.
The batter is spread into a foiled and greased pan. I used a quarter-sheet pan (about 13×9) as I find that that’s the easiest for getting brownies out of the pan safely. You can find a quarter sheet pan on Amazon. You can also use any other 13×9 inch pan. And if you don’t like to use foil in baking, you can use parchment paper instead.
If you chill the brownies well, you can easily get the brownies out of the pan without breaking them apart. Place a cutting board upside down on top of the pan and gently flip it over. Peel the foil off. Your brownies will now be upside down, so place another cutting board on the bottom of the brownies and then flip them back over. They’ll be nice and firm and easy to cut clean squares.
I like to cut the edges off of the brownies and make nicely cut squares. We save the edges for sampling. And they’re especially good when crumbled over vanilla ice cream with Chocolate Sauce on top!
These are everything a brownie should be- chocolatey, fudgy and moist. And all of that added peanut butter stuff happened to be quite a good idea. Kids and adults alike really love these, and they are definitely in my make-these-again collection. And I’ve made them many times since first making them back in 2009!
If you’re looking for more recipes that are great for using up your peanut butter cups, try these:
- Oatmeal Peanut Butter Cup Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Peanut Butter Cup Cookie Cupcakes
- Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup Cheesecake Cake
- Peanut Butter Cup Fudge
- Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream
- Reeses Stuffed Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Peanut Butter Cup Blondies
Peanut Butter Cup Brownies
Recipe Details
Ingredients
- 4 ounces unsweetened chocolate
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, at room temperature
- 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
- 2 cups lightly packed light brown sugar
- 4 large eggs
- 2 teaspoons chocolate extract (can substitute vanilla)
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- 2 cups (12 ounces) peanut butter chips
- 6 whole (1.5 ounces) Reeses Peanut Butter Cups chopped
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 325°F. Line a 9×13-inch pan with foil or parchment paper. Spray with nonstick spray.
- Melt the chocolate in a glass bowl in your microwave in small bursts of 30 seconds; stir after each burst and remove from microwave when melted and smooth. Set aside to cool slightly. (If you don't have a microwave, melt the chocolate in the top of a double boiler-- or set a glass bowl on top of a pan of simmering water).
- In a large mixing bowl, use an electric mixer to combine the butter, peanut butter and brown sugar. Beat in the eggs and chocolate extract. Mix in the melted chocolate. Mix in the flour. Stir in the peanut butter chips.
- Scrape the batter into the prepared pan. Sprinkle peanut butter cup candy pieces on top, pressing pieces lightly into the batter.
- Bake 25 to 35 minutes. Watch closely and remove from oven when toothpick inserted into center comes out clean. Let cool completely.
- Refrigerate until the brownies are well chilled- if overnight, cover with plastic wrap. When ready to cut, remove from the refrigerator and turn onto a cutting board. Carefully peel off the foil and use another cutting board to flip the brownies back upright. Use a large, sharp knife to cut into squares.
I love peanut butter cups! These brownies look amazing!
Made these today – a nice balance of fudgey and peanut butter! I have to make again for an upcoming function! Thank you for a great recipe!
My kids really loved it! Can’t wait to make it again!
These taste like heaven! So good!
The peanut butter IN this (not to mention on top) makes this recipe sinful in the best possible way!!
These were devoured at our house!!
Probably longer than 2 min cook time. 😉
Goodness, what’s not to like these brownies combine 2 of our favorite things!!
Making these for my mom’s birthday this week, I can’t WAIT to have them with some vanilla ice cream!
These sound AMAZING! Can’t wait to try this recipe.
You’re killin me. This might have to be a super bowl treat.
Oh my these are to die for. And I do have some PB cups hanging out in my pantry that need to go before I eat them myself. Lori I will get my act together and send in my entry to your contest! Since you liked the Stromboli, I will send that one in.
Ok those brownies are unbelievable. You just took brownies to another level.
Going to check out your Super Bowl event!! Gotta get a move on it!!!
These look so darn yummy… I have never tried PBB…. I plan on picking up some organic PB soon.. wish they had Resses here..
Oh wow. Looks amazing. Glad I found this blog. I’m always on the lookout for new recipes!
Thanks!
That was a good game, my hubby ( a die hard Steelers fan) paced the last 10 minutes of it! You goota love a brownie with pb cups in it, you’ve just gotta.
These brownies look and sound awesome!! I can almost smell them cooking!
They look delicious but you are torturing us as I am trying to stay away from “sinful” food.
Oh you know I will love these! You can never go wrong adding in those PB cups! Love that first shot!
Devilishly tempting…
scharffen berger, reese’s. peanut butter cups, peanut butter chips. holy decadence, these are astounding. diet-killers for sure. 🙂
Lori, you’re officially my best friend for making those brownies 😀
Now THAT is a real brownie. What a wonderful blog you have! I love the recipes and the step-by-step pictures. 🙂
Perfect, I am doing desserts for a wedding and the groom likes peanut butter and brownies!!
Awesome looking brownies.
Delicious—these give me the perfect excuse to make more brownies!
You are bad! Very, very bad! 😉
Ya beat me to it. I just bought (yesterday) a HUGE bag of Reese’s to make some kind of lucious brownies with! These look GREAT! Now I just won’t even look for a recipe and I’ll just use yours! Thanks, Lori.
These would last approximately five minutes in my house. I’ll have to make them while the kids are at school and husband is at work if I want any for myself – and I certainly do!
Sounds good, looks even better!! And yay, I can finally use my chocolate extract! I have a coffee one waiting to be used too, any recipes?! hint,hint! 🙂
~ingrid
DELICIUS. Wish i had few of them right now.
You’re a bad, bad girl. LOL 🙂
*sigh* Now I MUST go make Peanut Butter Cup Brownies…..
Brownies that look so good just can’t be wrong. : )
looks so great!!! 🙂
Awesome!!! I can’t wait to try these!
Oh my lord. Not only do you make me want to CHEAT but you make me want to make more brownies! lol
I like the peanut butter cups on top in addition to the ones in the batter – gives the eater a bit of a clue as to what they’ll be enjoying.
oh these would be the dead of my diet. I like peanut butter and chocolate so much! Pity I don t find Peanut butter cups and chips here 🙁 But sometime I ll try them with peanut butter blobs perhaps 🙂
I am on my way to bake a batch of brownies! I don’t know if they’ll even compare to these!!! Scrumptious!!
You have such a flair for presentation Lori. Even the labels on your pantry items are pretty!
LL
Oh geez these look like heaven!
We do have the same contest…isn’t it great…it’s going to be so hard to choose!
Yum!
I’ll make them for sure!
yummy yummy yummy i’ve got love in my tummy! these are precious!! 🙂
SO yummy and easy!! I’m an editor for a magazine that shall not be named and they recently hired a new “food writer” who shall also not be named and one of her recent “recipes” was for peanut butter cup brownies. The ingredient list went like this: “1 box brownie mix. 16 peanut butter cups (like Reese’s).” Ugh! I want to show her this recipe and be like “See? Now was that so difficult, child-wife of old piano man?!”
I’m sure my son would always go for another peanutbutter snack recipe for his lunch. He loves the stuff. Good idea for a party, too!
very very wrong, b/c now i want pb brownies 🙂