I don't know if the cookie recipes on the back of morsel bags are the same or different. I'd like to think they're different. There's so many slight variations on chocolate chip cookie dough. I hadn't made this kind of cookie in a very long time & I didn't have a standard recipe for it. So I used the one on the back of the bag of baking pieces I hold close to my heart. They're little raspberry cream filled dark chocolates. Like you'd get in a heart shaped box, only much smaller. I think they've been discontinued though because I haven't seen them in a while. So the one bag I have left needs to be saved for a special occasion.

Anyway- I got off topic a little there. The cookie recipe on the back of this bag turned out so good it's become the one I always use & I've coppied it to my recipe book.

Now, through a series of circumstances I met a guy that had won a year supply of reeses peanut butter cups. He gave me a box. I believe the count is 36 packages of the two cup packs. Instead of just eating them I felt the need to make other stuff with them. So I chopped some up & put them in cookies. I knew I didn't want to do a peanut butter cookie. I thought that would be too much. I wanted the peanut butter cups to be more subtle & less overwhelming & heavy.

Ingredient list:

6 T butter
1/3 cup butter flavored shortening
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/3 cup granulated sugar
1 egg
1 1/2 t vanilla extract
1 1/3 cups flour
1/2 t baking soda
1/2 t salt
3 packs of peanut butter cups

Preheat the oven to 350

Beat butter & shortening till well blended.
Add both sugars & beat throughly.
Add egg & vanilla. Beat till blended.
In a seperate bowl, stir together flour, baking soda & salt.
Gradully beat flour mix into the butter mix.


I know the reasons for doing it & I usually do. But this time I just dumped the stuff for the flour mix in the same bowl. I stirred it with a spoon before bringing in the mixer though. It was just fine. And I didn't have another bowl to wash.

The peanut butter cups are in the freezer & I'm sure that made the chopping much cleaner than it would've been otherwise. So I would definatly recomend it.


Dump the cup pieces into the dough & mix it up with a spoon.


drop clumps on an ungreased cookie sheet. I have one that I only use for cookies. These bake for about 10-12 minutes. I like to keep an eye on them though cause I don't always trust my oven 100%. When the edges are lightly browned it's time to come out.


I'm finding new and inventive ways to prop the camera up in my kitchen when the light's not so good. I hate using the flash.

I'm so happy with the way these turned out. Pulling them out of the oven at just the right time makes all the difference in the world. They're crispy and chewy. And wonderful. The flavor came out just the way I expected it to. There's no question that I'll be making these again.

Some people on flickr have already given me some ideas, but if any of you have anything you like to do with peanut butter cups I'm open to ideas for thing I can do with them. I have a freezer full. :)