Yes, crazy is the word I use too 🙂 Just wait until you try these Peanut Butter and Jelly Cookies…you will be crazy about them too.
Then one day when the kids were having a super simple lunch of pb & j…
and it hit me!!! Peanut butter and jelly in a cookie!
Awesome idea, huh???
But when I get an fun baking idea in my head, I kind of get distracted until I make it come to life!!!
And I have to say, making cookies is always more fun than a super squeaky clean house.
I usually do little cleaning things while the cookies are in the oven.
Gotta save some face a little here!
Honest, I do clean my house…but I probably spend more time in the kitchen.
Probably why I get “that look” from my hubby some days.
Does anyone else get that look?
You know…the silent stare???
No?
Maybe I’m the only one…
It’s the look that that says I have been crafting, baking, & blogging way too much.
Always a good idea to spend the next day feverishly cleaning up my mini messes!
Plus, we can only eat cookies so many days a week.
One day off from baking is probably a good idea…
at least that’s what my thighs keep telling me!!!
Peanut Butter & Jelly Cookies
Cake mix cookies made with peanut butter cups and raspberry chocolate bar for a fun take on peanut butter and jelly
Ingredients
- 1 white cake mix
- 1/2 cup butter, melted
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup chopped Reese's peanut butter cups (9 snack size)
- 1/2 cup chopped dark chocolate raspberry Ghirardelli squares (6 squares)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Mix cake mix, butter, eggs, and vanilla in a mixing bowl for about 2 minutes.
- Gently stir in the chopped candy bar pieces. Chill the dough for 20 minutes in the refrigerator before baking.
- Form the dough into 30 balls and place on a non stick baking sheet. Bake 10-12 minutes.
- Let cool on baking sheet for 2 minutes then remove to your wax paper lined counter to cool completely. Store in a sealed container on the counter.
Notes
Freeze the peanut butter cups and raspberry chocolate before baking. It makes it easier to chop without smashing the candy.
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 30 Serving Size: 1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 103Total Fat: 7gSaturated Fat: 4gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 3gCholesterol: 21mgSodium: 65mgCarbohydrates: 8gFiber: 1gSugar: 7gProtein: 2g
Is there anything else I coils use for the raspberry because my boyfriend has a nut allergy and can’t eat any chocolate bars?
You can use any candy bar that is nut free in place of the raspberry bars. I’m not really sure what ones to tell you since no one in our family has this allergy.
Hi! Would it be too much peanut butter if i put some into the batter?
I think you could definitely add 2-4 Tablespoons to the cookie mix if you wanted a bigger peanut butter taste in these.
Great thanks! I’m going to try this tomorrow.
Any suggestions on how to get the “jelly” look of your PB&J cookies? Mine did not have he jelly color to them when finished.
Did you freeze your chocolate jelly candy bars before cutting and adding to the dough? Also, stir them in carefully to the dough so the jelly doesn’t get mixed into the dough. Other than that…how do they taste???
I love the concept of these cookies. Just not sure what raspberry Ghirardelli squares are. Must be something sold in the USA as I have never heard of them.
So impressed with the combination of PB cups and Ghiradelli raspberry squares. It’s everything that’s right and good with the world in one single cookie. Awesome!
I was just looking at ALL of your recipes on RecipeNewZ…(yes, I was stalking), and I was so amazed at your creativity, not only with your recipe creations but with your gorgeous food photos! Great job!!!
YUMM! I just pinned this to my page because they look so fantastic. What an amazing idea. I eat a pb&j sandwich daily, so of course I’d love it in cookie form! Newest fan of your page. Love everything here 🙂
-Becky
Featuring tonight at Mom On Timeout – thanks for sharing!
These look amazing! I cannot wait to try this recipe. Thank you for sharing!
Kelly @ Our Everyday Harvest
You are welcome…I hope you enjoy making the cookies!!
I made these today (along with 3 other cookie recipes). These were my husband’s fave out of all of them! 🙂
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How did I miss these? Wonderful- and I love cake mix cookies too!
Thanks. Aren’t cake mix cookies the absolute best?
These look and sound delicious!!!
These cookies are FABULOUS!!!! I want to try other Ghirardelli candy flavors. Great recipe!!!!!
I think these are going to be a must make for Cookie Time Tuesday over on my blog! I’ll stop by to let you know when I share your recipe! Thank you for sharing this!
(I’m craving PB & J now!)
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Hi Jocelyn – Better late than never…I should have done this earlier today, but did want to let you know this awesome recipe is being featured at Weekend Potluck today. Looks oh so tasty!
Yummy…yummy…yummy! I would eat these in a second (and that would be good and bad!)
Good and oh so bad too!! I completely understand since I kind of ate almost the whole batch of these:-)
I love the creative recipes you come up with! And of course anything with peanut butter I’m going to love! Your pictures are always so pretty. Thank you again for sharing at my party, I am so happy you join me each week! 🙂
YUMMY! I have a recipe for PB & J cookie bars I was going to try, but these look fabulous! I’m printing for my must try pile. My kiddos will love these! Thanks so much for linking to Weekend Potluck. We can always count of you for some delicious treat! Have a great week.
~Kim
I’m right there with you on the cleaning! These cookies look scrumptious!
A much more productive and rewarding use of time than cleaning! I mean stuff just gets dusty again right?
I get that same look – a bit too often I think:) those cookies are calling me to the kitchen right now
Jocylyn – you’re such a great baker!
These cookies look amazing
Wonderful photos!
Thank you!! You are the sweetest and just made my day:-)
Hi Jocelyn! Thank you SO much for sharing these at Weekend Potluck today!! I know these would be a huge hit at my house! I shared them on facebook too! Have a great weekend 🙂
I sort of get a sigh from my husband. The very exasperated sigh, then he’ll tidy up around me in a not so subtle way! But I figure if any messes bothers him, then he has two hands!!!! I’d rather bake too! But right now, I’d rather eat these cookies!
haha! I get the sigh sometimes too…but mostly the look. I know then it’s time to get cleaning big time!!!
These look awesome!! Plus your photography has beautiful light and styling. Lovely!
Thank you so much!!!
Okay, you need to do a cookie tutorial, because my cookies never turn out so perfectly puffy and round. These are gorgeous!!!
Haha! These were the easiest. Roll into a ball and bake!!! I’m not sure what else I could share on a tutorial:-)
Yum – Gotta love a PB&J … especially in a cookie! Visiting from 36th Ave linkup 🙂
yum!!! these look awesome! i love that it’s a classic sandwich but in cookie form!
Thank you!!!! Cookie sandwiches are the best kind:-)
You are so original and creative. I love your recipes!
WOW Jocelyn. I’m completely blown away. SUCH beautiful pictures and WHAT a gorgeous cookie. They are photogenic. Not to mention.. combining 3 of my favorite things. Love the cake mix shortcut, too!
Girl coming from you the queen of awesome photography…this is huge!!! Thank you so much!!!!
Best looking cookies Ive seen in ages. Bravo and great idea!!!
Thank you so much;-)
I really love this recipe – THANKS – pix are lovely too.
I know the look very well….
I love that you used Ghirardelli in these for the Raspberry. GENIUS girl.
Can’t.wait.to.make.these!!
Boyfriend gives me “the look” all the time.
i know “the look.” I get it from the boyfriend when I’ve been baking and such and my sink is full of dishes when he comes over and he just looks at me like “really?!” But I adore baking, usually he gets pictures if not a taste but now that he’s trying to lose some weight I try to take it all to work or to my neighbors. Hehe, I can’t eat it all and it sure isn’t staying in my house. You aren’t the only one who would rather spend time in the kitchen concocting new and yummy ideas in the oven. If only my kitchen didn’t turn into a sauna due to my not being able to have the window open with this awful heat wave.
So trying these tonight 🙂
If cleaning was as fun as the baking, it wouldn’t be such a problem huh? Ugg to a hot sauna kitchen. Hope you had fun making these though;-)
I love these!! And– to be honest, seeing PB&J in a dessert wouldn’t usually do much for me. But these look GREAT! …of course, I’m sure that has nothing to do with the fact that the “PB&J” come from Ghirardelli squares and Reese’s cups…. 😉
YUM! And yes, I get the stare too.
Sometimes, my husband is all tricky like, and says “which books did you guys read today?” And I quickly respond with the one book we read. And he says, “Oh? So the one by her crib? That you read to every night her when she goes to sleep?”
Grrrrrrrrr. NO! I did not sit around and read Dr. Seuss all day long. I had nutella that needed to be played with!!!
Jocelyn, these cookies look incredible! So puffy and chewy, and studded with all those PB cups and raspberry squares. I was JUST thinking of doing an idea similar to this, but your creative mind brought it to life and then some. Love your pictures, too! Your cookies never cease to amaze me and are never short on uniqueness and fun flavors!
Thank you!!! How funny that you were thinking the same thing!!! That’s our blogger foodie brains for ya! Always thinking of some new and fun combo:-)
I know what you mean – baking and computer time is WAY more fun than cleaning. Which is why I hope none of my blogging friends ever come to my house! Love these cookies, anything with Reese’s!