Peanut Butter Cup Blondies Recipe
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This Peanut Butter Cup Blondies recipe is always a crowd favorite! So easy and perfect for the peanut butter and chocolate lover!
One of Sam’s favorite treats has always been peanut butter cups. Really, he loves them in whatever form he can get them. Peanut butter balls, peanut butter eggs, even the trees that they make during Christmas holidays. He adores them.
So, this week, I decided to surprise him when he came home from school with a pan of these peanut butter cup blondies. They are easy as can be to make and they are absolutely scrumptious! Think soft peanut butter cookies mingled with peanut butter cups and topped with more peanut butter and chocolate. Yes, they are a special treat indeed!
Peanut Butter Cup Blondies
To make them, I began by making the base blondie mixture. I mixed together my softened butter, peanut butter, and sugars until they were well combined and creamy. I then added my eggs and beat them into the peanut butter mixture. Next came the vanilla, flour, and baking soda. Once the blondie batter was well combined, I pressed it into my 9×13 baking pan.
I then placed my individual peanut butter cups on top of the blondie mixture until I had them arranged like I wanted and then pressed them into the batter. I put them into the oven to bake for 30 minutes and then removed them from the oven and let them cool completely.
As they were finishing up cooling, I melted my chocolate and peanut butter to drizzle on top of my peanut butter cup blondies. You can definitely skip that step if you’d like, but boy does it make them look amazing!
When I baked them, I used a 9×13 disposable, freezer-safe baking pan.
I love to use them when I cook a recipe to take with family or friends or when we are traveling. That way, no one has to worry about returning or babying a dish and I know that whatever I make in them will easily release every time!
Just pop on the top and go!
I also love that I can make items ahead wrap them in foil and freeze them for up to three months in these pans. It makes them just right for making ahead or even for freezing portions for later.
How to Freeze
Once cooked, allow to cool completely. Wrap in foil and freeze up to 3 months. To serve, allow to thaw in the refrigeator overnight.
The best thing, they work for sweet and savory dishes! Hoorah!
Here’s my Peanut Butter Cup Blondies recipe. I hope you love them!
Peanut Butter Cup Blondies Recipe
Ingredients
- 12 tablespoons (170 g) butter, softened
- 1/2 cup (135 g) peanut butter
- 1 1/2 cups (320 g) dark brown sugar
- 1/2 cup (99 g) granulated sugar
- 2 large (100 g) eggs
- 2 teaspoons (9 g) vanilla extract
- 2 cups (240 g) all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon (4 g) baking powder
- 1 teaspoon (3 g) kosher salt
- 40 miniature (280 g) peanut butter cups, unwrapped
Optional topping:
- 1/2 cup (85 g) semi-sweet chocolate chips, melted
- 1/2 cup (135 g) peanut butter, melted
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350ºF.
- Cream together the softened butter, peanut butter, and sugars with an electric mixer until well combined and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each egg, followed by the vanilla extract. Stir in the flour, baking powder and salt until well combined. Press the blondie batter into the pan.
- Arrange peanut butter cups on top of the blondie batter. Then, press into the batter. Bake for 30 minutes and then remove from the oven to cool.
Optional topping:
- Drizzle top of the baked and cooled peanut butter cup blondies with melted chocolate and then with melted peanut butter.
Notes
Video
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Enjoy!
Robyn xo
Robyn, your killing me with these recipes, and the Blondie one is my fav. Mom use to make it for me when I was a kid, she put Meringue on the top and baked it till just brown a bit, my all time favorite,
So. Darned. Good. Making these today for residents. I know they’ll fall in love too.
I was wondering if I can swap out the peanut butter for cookie butter ??
I’ve never made them that way, Helen. Thanks!
Robyn,,,Did I say she added chocolate chips ( Hersey’s) ,,loved the soft chewy cake filling and think this is what it was like. Thanks
Robyn, Didn’t make these yet but almost like my mother use to make,,but only used chocolate chips, never used peanut butter cups,,,great idea. She put meringue topping on and then baked it…I’m going to make these cuz I love what’s in this one….then I’ll pass out from all the sugar….thanks girl
I hope you enjoy this, Douglas! Thanks so much for the kind comment! 🙂
These were amazing….I made them for a family event and took leftovers to work. Everyone was going nuts over them!
Wonderful to hear, Danielle! Glad you enjoyed them – I’m a fan of peanut butter and chocolate too! 😉 Thanks! xo
Well good golly, these look divine!
Thank you, Courtney!!! xo
Robin,
Can these be made in a personalized shape too? For example 3 teenagers 1 each in an Easter shape or smaller pans???
I think that would be wonderful, Tabitha! I’d love to see photos if you make them that way!
Cliff will do a “happy dance”when I make these ! Perfect for the peanut butter lover . This explains all those wrappers !?
I hope he loves these as much as Sam does! And yes! This is exactly the explanation for all those wrappers the other day! 🙂