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    Easter Peanut Butter Cup Cookies (+ Video)

    February 13, 2023 By Brandy 1 Comment

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    These Easter peanut butter cup cookies look like bunnies! Peanut butter cookies, white chocolate peanut butter cups, and candies.

    You might also like our Pop Tart bunny house, our birds nest scotcheroos, or our Easter basket sugar cookies!

    easter bunny cookie cups

    Watch our step by step video!

    Pastel m&m candies are fun to bake with this time of year and make any treat colorful and festive for spring. We added them on top of peanut butter cup cookies for the perfect Easter treat!

    Easter Peanut Butter Cup Cookies

    Easter peanut butter cup cookies are easy to make and one batch makes 40 cookies so they are great to share with friends. They start with peanut butter cookies baked in a mini muffin pan. Then a white peanut butter cup is pressed into the hot candy and topped with m&m candies in a bunny design.

    easter bunny cookie cups on platter

    The peanut butter cookies are loaded with creamy peanut butter (you can also use crunchy peanut butter) and the soft peanut butter cup center makes them delicious rich and soft.

    hand holding peanut butter cookie cup

    You can use any kind of mini peanut butter cup candy that you'd like. If you prefer the milk chocolate variety to the white chocolate variety you can totally substitute those in! I thought the white ones brightened up the cookies and were the perfect backdrop for the pastel candies.

    You can also top these with mini Cadbury eggs to look like nests, but I think the m&ms are adorable!

    bunny dessert platter and bunny cookie cups

    Easter Peanut Butter Cup Cookie Ingredients

    • (scroll to the end of the post for a printable version)
    • 1 ¾ cup all-purpose flour
    • ½ teaspoon salt
    • 1 teaspoon baking soda
    • ½ cup softened butter
    • ½ cup white sugar
    • ½ cup brown sugar
    • 1 large egg
    • 1 teaspoon vanilla
    • 2 Tbsp. milk
    • 1 cup peanut butter
    • 40 unwrapped mini peanut butter cups
    • m&m candies

    bowl of white chocolate peanut butter cups

    How To Make Peanut Butter Cup Cookies

    Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.

    Mix dry ingredients and set aside.

    In a large bowl cream butter and sugars then mix in the egg, vanilla, milk, and peanut butter.

    Add flour mixture to wet ingredients and mix thoroughly.

    peanut butter cookie dough in pan

    Scoop dough into an ungreased mini muffin pan using a small (1 Tbsp. sized) cookie scoop.

    Bake for 8-9 minutes.

    peanut butter cups pressed into peanut butter cookie cups in pan

    When cookies come out of the oven immediately press a white peanut butter cup candy into the center of each HOT cookie.

    Allow cookies to stand for 5 minutes to allow the candy to soften.

    peanut butter cookie cups with mms to look like bunnies

    You'll need 1 whole candy and 2 halves for each bunny. Cut m&m candies in half for the ears.

    Press one candy into the white chocolate for the head and two candy halves for the ears.

    Chill the pan of cookies for 15 minutes then run a sharp knife around the edge of each cookie cup to pop them out of the pan.

    easter peanut butter cookie cups on platter

    Store cookies in an airtight container for up to 5 days.

    peanut butter cookie cups

     

    Easter Peanut Butter Cup Cookies Recipe

    easter bunny cookie cups on platter

    Easter Peanut Butter Cup Cookies

    These Easter peanut butter cup cookies look like bunnies! Peanut butter cookies, white chocolate peanut butter cups, and candies.
    5 from 1 vote
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    Prep Time: 10 minutes minutes
    Cook Time: 8 minutes minutes
    chill: 20 minutes minutes
    Total Time: 38 minutes minutes
    Servings: 40 cookies
    Calories: 145kcal

    Ingredients

    • 1 ¾ cup flour
    • 1 teaspoon baking soda
    • ½ teaspoon salt
    • ½ cup butter softened
    • ½ cup white sugar
    • ½ cup brown sugar
    • 1 large egg
    • 1 teaspoon vanilla
    • 2 Tbsp. milk
    • 1 cup peanut butter creamy or crunchy
    • 40 peanut butter cup candies
    • mms

    Instructions

    • Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
    • In a medium bowl mix flour, baking soda and salt together. Set aside.
    • Cream butter and sugars in a large mixing bowl.
    • Mix in egg, milk, vanilla and peanut butter.
    • Add flour mixture to wet ingredients and mix until thoroughly combined.
    • Use a small (1 Tbsp. sized) cookie scoop and scoop dough into balls. Place in ungreased mini muffin pan.
    • Bake for 8-9 minutes.
    • Immediately press an unwrapped white chocolate peanut butter cup into the center of each cookie, while the cookies are HOT.
      Let cookies stand for 5 minutes to allow the peanut butter cup to soften.
    • You'll need 1 whole m&m candy and m&m that has been cut in half for each bunny.
      Place the whole candy in the center of the peanut butter cup for the bunny head, then place the m&m candy halves on top for the ears.
    • Chill pan of cookies for 15 minutes.
      Run a sharp knife around the edges then remove cookie cups from muffin pan.

    Notes

    Store cookie cups in an airtight container up to 5 days.

    Nutrition

    Calories: 145kcal

     

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    About Brandy

    Welcome! I'm Brandy, mother to 5 darling kiddos and a cute black lab named Toby. My husband is in the Coast Guard so we've lived all over the place, turning each house into a home. I love baking, sewing, making cute things with my kids, and sharing what I've learned with all of you!

    Comments

    1. Brandy says

      May 30, 2025 at 11:12 am

      5 stars
      Hi everyone! Brandy here, these peanut butter cup cookies are so fun, and I love how creamy they are in the center with the mini white peanut butter cups. Would be cute with easter sprinkles too. Enjoy!

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