Guten-Free Peanut Butter Cup Cookies are sweet, with creamy peanut butter, a touch of salt and melting chocolate in every bite. They’re wildly delicious and will be deemed the best peanut butter cookies ever by everyone who tries them. 
Once upon a time, there were the best peanut butter cookies ever.
This story is really over, because that introduction is really all you really need to know about these cookies, to get you inspired to try them. However, I’ll go on a bit, because after all, that’s not much of a story, is it?
So why are they the best peanut butter cookies ever?
It’s simple . . . .
With a delicate crisp exterior, a soft and chewy peanut butter cookie dough perfectly surrounds melting chocolate and melting peanut butter, in the form of a miniature peanut butter cup.
That’s right. A peanut butter cup!
It could be Reeses, but any super delicious peanut butter cup will do — as long as they’re about the size of the Reeses Miniatures. (Not to be confused with the Reeses “Minis.) Here’s the size you want. Trader Joe’s makes a similar one — it’s here.
It’s your choice, and I think either way, the result will still be the best peanut butter cookies ever. In my humble opinion, of course. 😉
Double Peanut Butter Cup Cookies are as dreamy as can be a few minutes out of the oven, when the candy oozes from its equally delicious cookie casing.
Don’t you just want to reach into the screen for yours!?
My husband thinks they’re even dreamier the next day, when the candy has cooled and re-solidified.
Personally, I think both ways are amazing!
I hope you’ll try these unbelievably divine cookies, and then let me know which way suits you — dreamy or dreamier?
It’s a win-win, for sure!
So now you might think these look and sound like the best peanut butter cookies ever, but you must make them to confirm this!
Enjoy every last crumb of the Double Peanut Butter Cup Cookies!
*Makes about 2 1/2-dozen cookies / about 2 cookies per serving
- 30 miniature peanut butter cups (see notes)
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 2 large egg whites
- 1 (15-ounce) container creamy, salted peanut butter
- coarse sea salt for garnish
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Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F, adjust two racks towards the center, and line two baking sheets with parchment paper. Set aside.
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Unwrap the (30) mini peanut butter cups and set aside.
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Add the sugar and egg whites to a medium-sized mixing bowl and use a fork to blend the two together. Add the peanut butter and stir until the mixture is very smooth.
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Use a 1-inch cookie scoop (or a teaspoon), to add dollops of dough, a few inches apart, on one of the parchment-lined baking sheets.
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Gently press 1 mini peanut butter cup onto each dollop of dough -- with enough pressure so that it pushes the dough up around it, but not so much that goes though to the bottom.
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Now, using the same 1-inch cookie scoop (or a teaspoon), add another dollop of the dough on top of the peanut butter cup.
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Now pick up each bundle and gently roll it between your hands, just until the sides of dough seal themselves and the peanut butter cup is totally hidden. Try to keep track of the peanut butter cup, so that you know when you place the ball down on the baking sheet, either the top or bottom is up -- the candy should not be sideways! Continue until both baking sheets are filled.
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Sprinkle each one with the coarse sea salt and then bake in the preheated oven for approximately 10 minutes, just until the cookies have flattened out and no longer look wet.
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Let them cool on the baking sheet for at least 15 minutes.
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If you don't eat them right away, once they have completely cooled, you can store them in a tightly sealed container in a cool, dark place for a few days. (They also freeze very well.)
Reeses Mini Peanut Butter Cups are great, and the Trader Joe's (milk or dark) Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups also work very well.
I always forget how divine peanut butter is in baking – the centre of those cookies looks divine. Feel free to add this to #BakeoftheWeek too x
Thanks so much, Helen. Will do. 🙂
Mmmmm…sinfully delicious!!
Indeed! Just the way I like it. 😉
Oh my gosh I know a certain gentleman who will go crazy for these!!! He is a huge peanut butter and chocolate fan 🙂 I will have to bake these for his birthday. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you, Emma. Hope he loves them!
OK, I think I have some mini pb cups stashed in the fridge somewhere. Must find them and try this! I am going out on a limb and saying I will like them the way Stephen likes them…solidified. I might have to taste test 4 or 5 to determine exactly, though. 🙂
Both are divine! Thank you, Dorothy! XO
The creamy centers look so good!
Thank you. Hope you try them! 🙂
You’re so right! These look like best peanut butter cookies ever 🙂 Pinning to make them soon
Thanks so much. And for the pin, too. 🙂 Enjoy!
Just took a break from doing taxes to check my email, and saw this. OMG! Taxes are going to have to wait. On my way to pick up the Reese’s, ( to dangerous to keep these in my pantry) and can’t wait to bring these in tomorrow for my colleagues.
That’s fantastic, John! A well deserved tax break, I’m sure. 🙂 Hope you loved them as much as we do!
Just irresistible! Easy to make and even easier to enjoy, a winning cookie recipe Valentina!
Aww, thanks so much, Deb! Enjoy! XO
With this much delicious packed in one cookie form, I doubt anyone would miss the gluten 🙂
It’s my favorite type of gluten free — where there was never meant to be gluten. No substitutions. 🙂 Thank you!
Wow – just fantastic! My most successful gluten-free cookies have been peanut butter… This just makes everything so much better!
THANK YOU! XOXO
Double the peanut butter, double the deliciousness if you ask me! I need to try these ASAP!
Thanks, Karly! Hope you LOVE them!
These looks delicious. Hard to believe they are gluten free.
They are my favorite type of gluten-free — no substitutions, just inherently that way. 🙂
OH MY GOSH!! Totally and completely splurge worthy!!!
Yes! Do it! 🙂
Wow…those are just sinful…I’ll take a dozen please.
If only we hadn’t eaten every last one. 😉
OMG this looks amazing!!! I seriously can’t wait to make it!
They are! IMHO 😉 Thank you!
Oh wow, these would not last until they cooled in this house, so I’d have to say I prefer them warm out of the oven!
They’re so delicious when the peanut butter is still melting! 🙂
Woah Nelly! These cookies look like they were sent straight down from heaven. And let me tell you. . .as a splurge I had a peanut butter cookie at Barnes and Noble before class yesterday and that cookie doesn’t even come close to being as amazing as this cookie. Now I’m sad I wasted the calories on it when I could have had this beauty.
Thanks so much, Lynn! I say splurge again. 🙂
Simply sublime, Valentina!
Thank you, Christina! XO
Oh my, on my next Trader Joe’s run, I am going to make these!
Yay! You will love them! 🙂 xoxo