These Caramel Peanut Butter Snickers Cookies have a hidden candy bar center and a sweet chocolate glaze. Fill your empty cookie jar with a batch of soft cake mix cookies this week.
Chocolate and peanut butter are my kryptonite. Ok, so maybe just sugar in general can do me in.
But chocolate and peanut butter are at the top of that sugar list. I have the hardest time resisting these Peanut Butter Cup Rice Krispie Treats because of those two ingredients. So why do I keep making things that I'm going to have a hard time saying no to???
Well, I'm just trying to practice my self control. Just so you know, mission stay out of cookies this week was a complete and utter failure. Tomorrow is a new day...
Although, there are still quite a few of these cookies in the kitchen, so I'm thinking my new mission should be avoid the kitchen at all costs.
I haven't figured out how I'm going to get my breakfast from the fridge on this new mission. Or how I'm going to make kids lunches...me thinks they are on their own in the morning.
And making dinner tonight might pose a new set of problems. Drive-thru, anyone?
Let's just talk about these candy bar stuffed cookies for a minute. We all know how much fun I have been having hiding candy inside cookies, right? I mean these Cinnamon Caramel Cookies speak for themselves.
So, when I found a bag of fun-sized Peanut Butter Snickers at the store, I just had to bring them home with me.
Then the caramel cake mix in the cupboard started calling out and asking to be made into cake mix cookies. True story. Food talks to me.
How to make Caramel Peanut Butter Snickers Cookies
- Mix together the cake mix, butter, egg, and cream cheese until a soft dough forms. Refrigerate the dough for at least 1 hour.
- Roll the dough into 24 balls. Refrigerate longer if it is too sticky to work with.
- Flatten each dough ball and place a candy bar in the center.
- Roll the dough around the Snickers bar. Bake and cool.
- Spread the chocolate glaze on top of the cooled cookies. (full recipe below)
Recipe Tips
- When you pull the cookies from the oven, you are going to think they are undone. Do not be alarmed! This is how they should look.
- Bake the cookies for 10 minutes. This will produce a soft cookie inside. If you want to bake it another minute or two, the cookie will be more firm inside. It's totally up to you.
- Let the cookies sit on the cookie sheet for a few more minutes. The heat from the pan will continue to cook the cookies. Use a flat spatula to tap the tops of the cookies before moving them to parchment paper to cool all the way.
- These cookies look kind of ugly when they cool. A chocolate glaze on top fixes that problem. It hides the bump in the cookie from that hidden candy bar. Plus, adding more chocolate is never a bad idea!
More stuffed cookies that you may like
- Salted Caramel Brownie Cookies
- Red Velvet Peppermint Pattie Cookies
- White Chocolate Lemon Funfetti Cookies
- Nutella Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Peanut Butter Cup Cookies
- Triple Chocolate Cookies
Recipe
Snickers Surprise Cookies
These Snickers Surprise Cookies have a hidden candy bar center and a sweet chocolate glaze. Fill your empty cookie jar with a batch of soft cake mix cookies this week.
Ingredients
For the Cookies
- 1 caramel cake mix (15.25 oz)
- 8 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
- 1 large egg
- 4 ounces cream cheese, softened
- 24 mini peanut butter Snickers bars
For the Chocolate Glaze
- 2 tablespoons butter, melted
- 2 tablespoons dark cocoa powder
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 3 tablespoons milk
Instructions
- Combine the cake mix, butter, egg, and cream cheese. Mix until a soft dough forms.
- Refrigerate the dough for 1 hour. Roll into 24 even dough balls. (Refrigerate longer if the dough is still sticky.)
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- Flatten a dough ball and press an unwrapped peanut butter Snickers bite into the middle. Roll the dough around the candy bar.
- Bake the cookies for 10 minutes. Remove from the oven and let sit on the hot cookie sheet for 3-4 minutes before moving to parchment paper on the counter.
- Tap the tops of the cookies gently with the flat side of a spatula to even them out if needed. Let cool completely.
- Whisk together the glaze ingredients. Spread on the tops of the cookies. Let set before placing in a container.
Notes
- Use a vanilla or yellow cake mix if you cannot find a caramel mix.
- 10 minutes yields a soft cookie inside. Bake 11-12 minutes for a cookie that is more set up and firm inside.
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 24 Serving Size: 1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 397Total Fat: 21gSaturated Fat: 10gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 9gCholesterol: 37mgSodium: 202mgCarbohydrates: 47gFiber: 1gSugar: 39gProtein: 5g
*The post for Caramel Peanut Butter Snickers Cookies was first published on May 18, 2015. The photos and post were updated and republished on January 29, 2020.
Elle @ Only Taste Matters
I just love when you stuff candy bars into cookies and this may be your best combination so far! Pinned!
Jocelyn
Thank you so much 🙂
Erin @ Miss Scrambled Egg
Surprise stuffed cookies are the BEST! These look amazing. I need to try these.
Jocelyn
YES! I love a good surprise center in a cookie too!! Definitely try these...you won't regret it!
Cyndi - My Kitchen Craze
Jocelyn these look so stinking good!! Caramel and pb belong together and in cookie form is just simply genius! 🙂
Julianne @ Beyond Frosting
I can't discriminate against an ugly cookie, but the chocolate glaze will do too!
Jocelyn
Hahaha! I never discriminate against ugly cookies either, but making them pretty seems to make other people like them better. So, more chocolate it is 😉 It's a rough life! LOL!
Melanie @ Carmel Moments
Caramel and cookies were meant to be together! Fabulous!
Jocelyn
I would have to agree with you there!!!
Ashley | The Recipe Rebel
These are brilliant. LOVE Snickers (doesn't everbody?!)!
Medha @ Whisk & Shout
These look insanely good. Peanut butter AND caramel? You're speaking my language.
Aimee @ ShugarySweets
I love these cookies!! Now I need to get a box of that caramel cake mix!
Jocelyn
Try Meijer...at least that's where I found it here 😉
Laura @ Laura's Culinary Adventures
I wouldn't be able to resist these either!
Gayle @ Pumpkin 'N Spice
Oh the title of these cookies are luring me in, Jocelyn! Love the caramel and pb combo! And you definitely can't beat the snickers addition. Pinned!
Jocelyn (Grandbaby cakes)
I think I will call these cookies downright masterful! Yep that's it!
Jocelyn
Hahaha! Love it 🙂
Stephanie
Daaaahhh... these are my weakness, I LOVE the hidden candy bar in the middle... and I love-love-loveeeeee cooking them for just a little bit, they're SO soft and chewy.. I can't even think about this anymore, I'm getting WAY too hungry!!
Jocelyn
I totally understand 🙂 I was so weak around these cookies! And yes, soft and chewy cookies are the best!!!
Johlene@FlavoursandFrosting
These cookies look devine! I´ve also decided to eat less sugar so my trick is to give the things I bake away before I can eat them or before my family fights with me for giving them away lol
Eva D
My daughter has a peanut and tree nut allergy so I think I'll hide a mini Rolo inside instead of the Snickers. Yum!
Jocelyn
Rolos or any other miniature candy bar that she likes would be the perfect substitution there. I hope she loves them!
Mir
These are IT for me, Jocelyn! Cookie perfection at its finest. I am seriously into hiding candy inside of cookies. And PB cookies? WOW.
Jocelyn
There is just something fun about biting into a treat and finding a surprise center!
Jessica @ A Kitchen Addiction
More chocolate is never a bad idea! Love everything about these cookies!
Jocelyn
I knew adding more chocolate would be ok with everyone else too 🙂
Jen @ Baked by an Introvert
I love peanut butter and snickers so I know these cookies will be my new bff's!
Christi @ Love From The Oven
Wow, those are packed full of a lot of delicious flavor!
Jocelyn
Thanks so much, Christi 🙂
Ashley | Spoonful of Flavor
Peanut butter and chocolate is always the best combination! I love that you added caramel too. You can never have too many cookie recipes so I can't wait to try these!
Jocelyn
I totally agree with never having too many cookie recipes 🙂