

You can speed up this process by placing in the refrigerator (don’t place the pan in while hot or it will raise the temp of the fridge itself) or, if you live in a cold climate like I do, you can place in an enclosed but unheated porch or someplace else in your house that gets cold. These peanut butter cup brownie treats need to cool fully before you take them out of the pan or they can fall apart. Let cool COMPLETELY before removing from pan.Ĭooking Tips: How long do Reese’s Brownies Cups Need to Cool? One removed from oven, immediately press a Mini Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup onto the top of each brownie cup. Check for doneness by inserting a toothpick into the center of a cup in the middle of the pan. In a mixing bowl, combine brownie mix, eggs, milk and melted butter.įill muffin cups about 3/4 of the way full.īake 16-18 minutes. Spray mini muffin pan with cooking spray. OR you can do what I like to do and keep the batter to make mug cakes in the microwave when a late night baked good urge hits and your brownies cups are already gone! Reese’s Brownies Cups Recipe Reese’s Brownie Bites Ingredients: OR you can cook the rest of the batter in a small pan by itself for regular brownies. You can bake a second round of cups using up your batter to make about 6-8 extra cups. You’ll end up with extra brownie batter when you’re done with this recipe so you have a few choices about what to do with the extra batter.

I use this Wilton Perfect Results Premium Non-Stick Mini Muffin Pan and love it! To make your Reeses Brownie Cups, you’ll need a mini muffin pan. You can buy a bag of Reese’s and unwrap them all, or save yourself a bit of work (and the temptation of eating them all as you unwrap them) and buy a bag of Reese’s Minis Peanut Butter Cups UNWRAPPED. Am I right?īeyond the box of brownie mix and the eggs, milk and butter (or the eggs, water and oil if you want to go that way), you just need some mini Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. There is no universe where the taste of oil will beat the taste of melted butter. BUT, if you want your brownies to taste even better, go ahead and substitute milk for the water and use melted butter instead of oil. Yes, you absolutely can use the water and oil called for on a box of brownie mix.
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These tricks are something I have done for a long time and you can see them in my years-old post of How to Make Box Brownies Taste Homemade. To make these sweet treats extra good, I have tweaked the “normal” brownie mix directions a little. Basically, you just prepare a brownie mix according to the package directions, but bake in mini muffin tins before adding the Reese’s peanut butter cups, BUT WAIT!

I also love that they are so easy to put together. That’s exactly what these Reese’s Brownies Cups are! So, it’s logical I would want to put together the chocolate candy perfection of Reese’s cups along with the deliciousness that is brownies. When Halloween comes to chocolate candy, it’s really hard to beat Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups! That combination of chocolate and peanut butter is so amazing!īut when it comes to having a small dessert or sweet treat, chocolate alone often doesn’t do it for me and I want something baked – cookies, cupcakes, cake or, best of all, brownies! The Reese's Peanut Butter Cup is still my very most favorite candy bar, as much for the memories it brings back as well as for the taste.These delicious little Reese’s Brownies Cups are so easy to make! All you need is a brownie mix, Mini Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, eggs, milk and butter! Of course I always chose the Reese's Peanut Butter Cups! The creamy chocolate and that uniquely textured peanut butter center. Whenever we visited this farmer my grandpa would buy me a pop and any candy bar I wanted. There they also sold soda pop and candy in addition to the fruit from their farm.

One of his biggest clients also had a fruit market in the front of the property. He sold fruit trees to the local farmers so sometimes we would drive through an orchard to visit one of his farmer clients. I remember when I was a kid back in the early 1960's my grandpa and I would hop into his Cadillac to go for a ride. Hershey's success that he left the dairy business to make his living in the candy industry. Hershey, founder of Hershey Foods Corporation. The name REESE'S has a unique heritage established by Harry Burnett (H.B.) Reese, a former dairy employee of Milton S. Introduced as simply peanut butter cups, the popular candy item is known today as REESE'S peanut butter cups. Reese Candy Company began manufacturing a product made with specially processed peanut butter and HERSHEY'S Milk Chocolate in the 1920s.
