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Mini Peanut Butter Cup Brownies

Modified: Dec 30, 2024 · Published: Mar 5, 2016 by Anna · This post may contain affiliate links · 3 Comments

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March 1 is National Peanut Butter Lovers' Day, and there's no bette recipe for it than Peanut Butter Cup Brownies. I originally made these with mini peanut butter cups, but I'm pretty sure any size peanut butter cups will do. Just chop them. Whichever type you choose, they'll add texture and flavor to these peanut butter filled fudge brownies.

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These fudge brownies are filled with peanut butter chips, swirled with sweetened peanut butter and topped with miniature peanut butter cups. The original recipe is from Reese's. I changed it up a bit, as usual. I used more peanut butter chips and added a lot more peanut butter at the end. That's because when the brownies come out of the oven the peanut butter marbled part looks a little cracked and dry.  Spooning more peanut butter over the marbled areas while the brownies are hot covers the cracks and adds more peanut butter flavor and texture.  

This recipe is a winner, but if you don't have peanut butter cups, you can use this one.  I really am not sure which one I like best.

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peanut butter cup brownies

Mini Peanut Butter Cup Brownies

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Mini Peanut Butter Cup Brownies are fudge brownies filled with peanut butter chips and peanut butter cups, then marbled with peanut butter and topped with more peanut butter cups.
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Prep Time 10 minutes mins
Cook Time 28 minutes mins
Total Time 38 minutes mins
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Servings 16

Ingredients
 

  • 1 stick 4 oz unsalted butter
  • 2 cups plus 2 tablespoons granulated sugar divided use
  • ⅔ cup unsweetened natural cocoa powder
  • 4 large eggs beaten
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • ¾ cup flour
  • ¾ teaspoon salt reduce to ¼ if using salted butter
  • ¼ teaspoon baking soda
  • ¾ cup peanut butter chips
  • 1 bag mini peanut butter cups Reese's, divided use
  • 1 cup approximately creamy peanut butter, divided use

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line a 9x13 inch metal baking pan with foil and spray bottom with cooking spray. If halving the recipe, use an 8 inch square pan.
  • Melt butter in medium saucepan over low heat. Add 2 cups of the sugar (reserve the 2 tablespoons for later) and cocoa; stir to blend. Remove from heat. Stir in eggs and vanilla. Stir together flour, salt and baking soda and add to chocolate mixture.
  • At this point, make sure the batter is no longer warm so that it won't melt the add-ins. Stir in the peanut butter chips and about ½ cup of the mini peanut butter cups and spread evenly in the pan.
  • Mix only ½ cup of the peanut butter with the 2 tablespoons of reserved sugar and drop by tablespoons onto chocolate batter. Gently pull a knife through (just a bit) to marble.
  • Bake 25 to 30 minutes or until brownie starts to pull from edges of pan and is set. The peanut butter part that's showing should look a little dried out. This is normal.
  • Set on a wire rack. Immediately, while the brownies are still hot out of the oven, start spooning the remaining peanut butter (you don't have to use all of it) over the areas where the baked peanut butter shows. The point is to cover the baked peanut butter with the fresh peanut butter so that it melts over it and looks smooth. Top should still look very swirled. As you dollop with more peanut butter, sprinkle the remaining chips over the top (feel free to cut some in half) artfully.
  • Let cool completely, then chill just until chocolate and peanut butter are set. Lift from pan and cut into squares.
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  1. Sonya says

    March 06, 2016 at 1:47 pm

    Oh cool! We're eating their Ben's Chocolate Ice Cream right now (with brownies) and it is SO rich, think ganache in ice cream form 🙂 I love it! Their recipes don't call for anything to protect you from salmonella, so I just use eggbeaters. Lately I found pasteurized eggs at our local stores so I use those too. There are many awesome recipes - though you can probably find many online, the book is really cute and a fun read. There are SO many yummy recipes in there. I've made every recipe in the book but one - the Beer Sorbet - in fact I will have some leftover beer from fish tacos tonight so I think I'll make the rest of the beer into some sorbet so I can cross that off my list - haha. Thanks for reminding me of it!

  2. Anna says

    March 06, 2016 at 1:08 pm

    I need to get my hands on that book since I've been making a lot of ice cream lately. A few people have recommended it.

  3. Sonya says

    March 06, 2016 at 9:41 am

    These look so good! I liked the recipe from Ben and Jerry's ice cream and dessert book, but there's doesn't have the peanut butter chips, which sounds even better!

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