Description
A rich and gooey brownie base, topped with scoops of peanut butter cookie dough and melty Reese’s cups.
Ingredients
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Peanut Butter Dough
- 1/2 cup butter, room temp
- 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1 cup light brown sugar
- 2 tbsp granulated sugar
- 1 egg, room temp
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 cup flour
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp cornstarch
Brownie Batter
- 1 stick butter
- 6 oz chocolate chips, plus 4 oz chocolate chips (for mixing into the batter)
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 3 eggs
- 1/4 cup black cocoa powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 cups, 2 tbsp flour
- Mini Reese’s PB cups
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350ºF. Butter pan and line with parchment paper.
- Make Peanut Butter Dough. In a small mixing bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, salt and cornstarch. Set aside for later.
- In a stand or hand mixer, cream together butter and peanut butter. Mix until combined. Add in sugar and light brown sugar. Mix until combined.
- Add egg and vanilla to the butter mixer and mix until just combined.
- Mix in the flour mixture into the wet ingredients. Once the dough has just mixed together, it’s time to marble the dough.
- Make Brownie batter. In a small saucepan over low heat, melt butter and chocolate chips. Remove sauce pan from heat until it is just melted.
- Remove from heat and whisk in sugar and eggs, one at a time. Pour into a medium bowl and mix in cocoa powder and salt. Next add in flour and fold into the batter with a spatula until the flour is fully mixed in.
- Pour brownie batter in pan. Add dollops of dough on top. Sprinkle chopped Reese’s on top.
- Bake for 40-45 minutes until cooked through. Check doneness with fork or toothpick.
- Let bars cool for at least 15 minutes. Slice and serve.