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Put together to be obsessive about this Peanut Butter Cookie Cake. It’s an enormous, moist, chewy peanut butter cookie full of chocolate chips and Reese’s. As if that weren’t sufficient, it’s topped with chocolate buttercream and extra Reese’s. Oh my!

Reese's peanut butter cookie cake on a serving plate with a slice taken out of it.

Why You’ll Love This Cookie Cake

  • Moist and chewy. This cookie cake is so scrumptious to chunk into. It’s completely moist and splendidly chewy. Like your favourite cookie, however greater and higher.
  • A traditional taste combo. I don’t find out about you, however I’m a sucker for something peanut butter and chocolate. It’s a kind of taste mixtures that can have you ever hooked at first chunk and this cookie cake is all about it.
  • Simple to make. This dessert is simpler than a cake as a result of there’s not one of the layering and fancy icing concerned. It’s additionally simpler than cookies since you don’t must make a bunch of dough balls! Simply press the entire dough right into a cake pan and bake.

Love the chocolate-peanut butter combo however on the lookout for a extra elegant dessert? Attempt my Peanut Butter Chocolate Layer Cake!

Ingredients for Reese's peanut butter cookie cake.

Ingredient Notes

Right here’s what you’ll must make this Reese’s peanut butter cookie cake. You should definitely scroll to the recipe card under for exact measurements.

Cookie Cake

  • All-purpose flour – You should definitely measure your flour precisely. An excessive amount of flour provides you with a dense, dry bread. I like utilizing a meals scale, however the spoon and degree methodology additionally works.
  • Baking soda – For the right rise and texture.
  • Salt – And not using a little salt, your cookie cake will probably be bland.
  • Unsalted butter – The butter ought to be at room temperature. Whether it is too chilly or too melted it received’t cream correctly with the peanut butter and sugars.
  • Peanut butter – Go together with a easy, creamy peanut butter. Not the pure type.
  • Granulated sugar and light-weight brown sugar – I like utilizing each. The brown sugar contributes a bit of further moisture and depth of taste.
  • Egg – You should definitely use massive eggs, not medium or further massive.
  • Vanilla extract
  • Chopped peanut butter cups – I really like the added Reese’s, however you possibly can at all times go away these out and add extra chocolate chips, and even peanut butter chips.
  • Semi-sweet chocolate chips – Milk or darkish chocolate chips will even work.

Buttercream

  • Unsalted butter – Begin with room temperature butter. If it’s too chilly, you’ll find yourself with lumpy frosting.
  • Powdered sugar – The powdered sugar sweetens the frosting whereas additionally offering quantity and giving it a stiff sufficient consistency for piping.
  • Pure unsweetened cocoa powder – You need to use Dutch-processed cocoa powder for a richer chocolate taste and darker colour.
  • Vanilla extract
  • Heavy whipping cream – You may additionally use milk or water, you’d simply want much less of it.
  • Full-sized Reese’s – Minimize in half to embellish.
A slice of Reese's peanut butter cookie cake on a plate.

The best way to Make a Reeses Peanut Butter Cookie Cake

Warmth up the oven and tie in your apron. Right here’s a fast overview of learn how to make this chocolaty, peanut buttery cookie cake. Don’t neglect to scroll to the recipe card under for extra detailed directions.

To make the cookie cake

  • Prep. Preheat the oven to 350°F, line the underside of a 9-inch cake pan with parchment paper, and grease the edges.
  • Mix the dry substances. Whisk collectively the flour, baking soda, and salt.
  • Mix the moist substances. Cream collectively the butter, peanut butter and sugars on medium pace for 2-3 minutes. Combine within the egg and vanilla.
Creaming together butter, peanut butter, granulated sugar, and light brown sugar until light and fluffy.
Cream collectively the butter, peanut butter, and sugars.
Mixing egg and vanilla into peanut butter cookie cake dough.
Combine within the egg and vanilla.
Adding the dry ingredients to peanut butter cookie cake dough.
Combine the dry substances into the moist substances.
  • Put all of it collectively. Combine the dry substances into the peanut butter combination after which stir within the Reese’s and chocolate chips.
  • Bake. Press the dough evenly into the cake pan, press further chocolate chips and/or Reese’s into the highest, and bake for 18-22 minutes.
Folding Reese's and chocolate chips into peanut butter cookie cake dough.
Fold within the Reese’s and chocolate chips.
Reese's peanut butter cookie cake dough pressed into a cake pan.
Press the dough right into a cake pan and bake.
  • Cool. Permit the cookie cake to chill fully within the pan.
  • Switch to a serving plate. Flip the cake the other way up onto a cooling rack, place a serving plate on high, and flip it proper facet up.
  • Make the frosting. Beat the butter till easy. Combine in 1 cup of powdered sugar adopted by the cocoa powder, vanilla, and 1 tablespoon of heavy cream. Combine within the remaining powdered sugar and extra cream (if wanted) to get the best consistency.
  • Adorn. Pipe the buttercream across the edges of the cookie cake and garnish with Reese’s.
Reese's peanut butter cookie cake on a serving plate.

Recipe Suggestions

  • Select the best peanut butter. You’ll need to select a easy, creamy peanut butter versus a chunky one. Additionally, avoid pure peanut butters. They separate, which might intrude with the best way the substances on your cookie dough combine collectively.
  • Room temperature butter. The butter within the cookie dough ought to be at room temperature. In any other case it received’t cream correctly with the peanut butter and sugars (see my subsequent level). The butter within the frosting must also be at room temperature until you need lumpy frosting. So suppose forward and let your butter sit out for an hour or so earlier than starting.
  • Don’t skimp on creaming time. When creaming collectively the butter, peanut butter, and sugars, achieve this till the combination has considerably lightened in colour and grow to be fluffy. This course of incorporates air into the dough, which helps guarantee your cookie cake doesn’t prove overly dense.
  • Scrape down the edges of the bowl. When including and mixing substances into the dough (and frosting), scrape down the edges of the bowl intermittently to make sure every thing makes it into the dough/buttercream.
  • Don’t over-mix. When mixing the dry substances into the moist substances and likewise when folding the Reese’s and chocolate chips into the dough, combine simply till every thing is integrated. No extra. Mixing previous this level could cause the glutens within the flour to overdevelop and your cookie cake to prove powerful.
  • Cool fully (within the pan). Permit the cookie cake to chill fully within the pan earlier than transferring it to a serving plate and frosting. Cooling it within the pan permits it further time to agency up in order that it doesn’t collapse. Permitting it to chill fully earlier than including the frosting ensures the frosting stays placed on high of the cake, quite than melting off.
A slice of Reese's peanut butter cookie cake on a plate with a fork.

Enjoyable Variations

Be at liberty to get inventive! Listed below are some enjoyable methods to throw a personalised spin on this recipe.

  • Combine-in mania. I went with chocolate chips and Reese’s, however you possibly can go along with all chocolate chips or all Reese’s. Alternatively, you possibly can swap one or each out for white chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, or peanut butter chips! A chopped sweet bar would even be good. Perhaps Heath Bar or Snickers? Simply make sure to preserve your mix-ins to about 1 1/4 cups complete.
  • Select a distinct frosting. Not a chocolate frosting individual? Attempt my Vanilla Buttercream or the peanut butter frosting from these Peanut Butter Cupcakes.
  • Candy additions. Simply in case this peanut butter cookie cake isn’t candy sufficient for you as is, go forward and drizzle a few of my Simple Selfmade Sizzling Fudge Sauce excessive and serve your slice with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

The best way to Retailer

  • Counter/Fridge. Seal the cake in an hermetic cake provider or wrap it in a double layer of plastic wrap (use toothpicks to prop the plastic away from the frosting). Alternatively, prepare slices in a single layer in an hermetic container. You’ll be able to retailer this cookie cake at room temperature for as much as 2 days. After that, pop it within the fridge for an additional 2-3 days.
  • Freezer. Let the unfrosted cake agency up within the freezer for a few hours earlier than wrapping the entire thing in a double layer of plastic wrap. In any other case, prepare slices in a single layer in an hermetic container. You’ll be able to retailer it within the freezer for as much as 3 months. Permit the cookie cake to thaw within the fridge earlier than diving in.

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Reese's peanut butter cookie cake on a serving plate with a slice taken out of it.