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Indulge in the ultimate chocolate lover’s treat with these decadent Reese’s Triple Chocolate Cookies. Made with semi sweet, milk, and white chocolate PLUS Reese’s Pieces and peanut butter chips, these cookies are a chocolate and peanut butter lover’s dream come true.
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When we were moving from Lehi I was trying to work my way through our pantry, fridge and freezer as much as possible so we’d have less to move into a new house. And less spillage, leakage etc haha. I found a random container with little bits of all those chocolates and thought, oh I’m soooo making cookies that the kids can share with friends. Instead, we ate them all!
We use chocolate pudding powder to make these cookies extra tender and chewy. Just like our chocolate chip pudding cookies, these cookies have the perfect texture…a little crispy around the edges and fudgy on the insides!
Ingredients for Reese’s Triple Chocolate Cookies
I originally was going to call these chocolate kitchen sink cookies because it felt like I tossed everything in except the kitchen sink, but traditional kitchen sink cookies usually have oats, so I left the kitchen sink at home…haha! Suffice it to say, these cookies have a little bit of everything chocolate and peanut butter. Here is what you will need:
- Butter: I prefer to use unsalted butter, but if you only have salted on hand, just reduce the salt by 1/4 teaspoon.
- Eggs: give structure to the cookies
- White Sugar: adds sweetness
- Brown Sugar: firmly pack the brown sugar before adding it to the dough
- Vanilla Extract: adds flavor
- Flour: just regular all purpose flour
- Salt: enhances all the flavors and offsets the sweetness
- Baking Soda: acts as a leavening agent to give the cookies rise and chewiness
- Cocoa Powder: boosts the fudgy chocolate flavor
- Instant Chocolate Pudding Mix: adds more chocolate flavor and helps keep the cookies moist
- Add-Ins: Reese’s Pieces, White Chocolate Chips, Semi Sweet Chocolate Chips, Milk Chocolate Chips and Peanut Butter Chips (Reese’s Peanut Butter Chips are our favorite)
The measurements for all of these ingredients can be found in the recipe card at the end of this post.
Step By Step Instructions for Making These Cookies
Making these chocolate Reese’s cookies is easy and straightforward. Here are the basic steps:
- Prep: Preheat the oven and line some baking sheets with parchment paper or silpats.
- Wet Ingredients: In the bowl of a stand mixer, add all the wet ingredients (butter, eggs, sugars and vanilla) and mix until combined.
- Dry Ingredients: In a separate bowl, whisk together all the dry ingredients (flour, salt, baking soda, cocoa and pudding mix).
- Combine: Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix until just barely combined and a few streaks of the flour mixture remain.
- Fold: Add the Reese’s Pieces and all the baking ships and fold into the cookie dough.
- Scoop: Use a large cookie scoop and scoop out cookie dough balls and roll into a perfect ball.
- Bake: Bake the cookies for 8-10 minutes, then allow them to cool for 3 minutes on the sheet before moving them to a wire rack to cool.
All of these instructions in complete detail can be found in the recipe at the end of the post.
Tips for Making the Best Triple Chocolate Cookies
It’s very important that you purchase INSTANT pudding and not the cook and serve kind. The cook and serve style of pudding simply won’t work for this recipe.
When adding in the instant pudding mix, add it like any other dry ingredient. You don’t actually make the pudding mix like it says on the box. Just stir it into the dough like you would flour.
The baking chips you add can be pretty much anything you have left over. See section below for more ideas.
Don’t overbake the cookies. They won’t need more than 8-10 minutes and will cook a little more on the sheet pan as they cool.
Variations
If you don’t have Reese’s Pieces or you’re not a fan of white chocolate chips, all the add-ins are totally interchangeable. Other options might include:
- Peanut Butter m&m’s (I saw they have mini peanut butter m&m’s now!)
- Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups (chopped up)
- Dark Chocolate Chips
- Regular m&m’s
- Toffee Bits
- Chopped Peanuts
How Do You Keep Cookies Soft?
To keep homemade cookies soft, let them cool completely before storing them.
Put the cooled cookies in an air-tight container for storage. If they start to dry out, stick a slice of bread in the container with the cookies.
How Long Will Cookies Keep?
Properly stored in an airtight container, freshly baked cookies will last for about 2 to 3 weeks at normal room temperature. They also freeze well if you want them to last longer. Place them on a single layer on a baking sheet and freeze for 2 hours. Then stack them in a freezer safe container, and they will keep for up to 3 months.
If you are looking for thick and chewy chocolate cookies that are fully loaded with all things peanut butter and chocolate, then these Reese’s triple chocolate cookies are your new best friend!
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Reese’s Triple Chocolate Cookies
Ingredients
- 2 Cups Butter, unsalted, softened (4 sticks)
- 4 Large Eggs
- 1 1/2 Cups White Sugar
- 2 Cups Brown Sugar
- 2 teaspoons Vanilla Extract
- 5 Cups All Purpose Flour, like Gold Medal
- 2 teaspoons Salt
- 2 teaspoons Baking Soda
- 1/2 Cup Cocoa
- 1 Box Instant Chocolate Pudding Mix, 5.1oz box, fudge or devil's food
- 1 Cup Reese's Pieces
- 1/2 Cup White Chocolate Chips
- 1/2 Cup Semi Sweet Chocolate Chips
- 1/2 Cup Milk Chocolate Chips
- 1/2 Cup Peanut Butter Chips
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper or silpats.
- In a bowl of a standing mixer, combine the butter, eggs, sugars, and vanilla in large bowl until evenly mixed.2 Cups Butter, 4 Large Eggs, 1 1/2 Cups White Sugar, 2 Cups Brown Sugar, 2 teaspoons Vanilla Extract
- In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, salt, baking soda, cocoa and pudding mix.5 Cups All Purpose Flour, 2 teaspoons Salt, 2 teaspoons Baking Soda, 1/2 Cup Cocoa, 1 Box Instant Chocolate Pudding Mix
- Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix until just combined then add the Reese's Pieces and all the baking ships and fold in.1 Cup Reese's Pieces, 1/2 Cup White Chocolate Chips, 1/2 Cup Semi Sweet Chocolate Chips, 1/2 Cup Milk Chocolate Chips, 1/2 Cup Peanut Butter Chips
- Using a 1/4 cup cookie scoop to make the perfect ball, scoop the cookies onto the baking sheet. Roll the cookies into balls so they have that shine on the outside after they bake.
- Bake for 8-10 minutes and allow to cool for 3 minutes then remove to a cooling rack and repeat with remaining dough.
Recipe Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
My kids are too young to really tell me about their dreams, but my two year old is really good at sleep walking! That keeps my life interesting! 😉
The weirdest dream I ever had is that my front tooth fall off & in my culture they say when you have a dream like that somebody in your family or relatives will die & coincidently my great grandma died that day. It’s the kinda dream I don’t wanna have anymore.
My kids are still a little young to be able to share their dreams – but I get a lot of giggling, crying, and talking.
My oldest son did try to pee on his laundry basket once, while asleep. That was fun!!!
aw poor thing!! My brother. one time, had a dream where the burger he had eaten before was chasing after him and trying to eat HIM (he sat straight up in bed during this nightmare and yelled “RUN FOR THE TASTE!”)
and these cookies are as delicious as your daughter’s dreams are insane! LOVE how choco-peanut buttery these are
HAHA!! Did that really happen? That’s awesome!
YIKES!! I had night terrors growing up and I’m 26 now and had one a few weeks ago. Needless to say my dog and boyfriend are terrified when I go to sleep now. It’s scary, but the best thing you can do is to just rub her back and not talk about it until she’s fully conscious and a different day. I had the same night terror over and over and over growing up and I was never scared until I woke up, even though my family or whoever I was standing over thought I was awake the whole time because my eyes were open. Once I managed to flip my bed upside down and half was on the floor and my mom came in to me laying on top of it with my eyes open. She was terrified and we don’t know how or why I flipped the bed. Weird stuff.
Holy moly!! That would freak me out as the parent!
About a month ago my 5 yo daughter came to the breakfast table talking about a dream she had where her and her brother were playing in the snow building a snowman. She started talking to her 7 yr old brother about the good time they had like he was really there and it really happened. I tried explaining to my daughter that her brother was not really there in her dream and that is when my son piped up and told me he was there he had met his sister in his dream and they played the snow together building a snowman. I thought they were joking with me so I separated them and asked them specific questions about the snowman and area they were in,they both told me the exact same answers.
That’s crazy!
We moved in to a new rental house & my then 2.5-year-old daughter woke up in tears in the middle of the night. She sobbed that there was a ‘shadow in her closet”. I didn’t think much of it. Happens with a move..normal stuff, right? Right. The next day I realized our new backyard backs into a cemetery that is over 200 years old. Yikes. Shadow in her closet..whaaaat?!
Ok, that is so creepy!
I am a sleep walker and talker too! I have lots of strange dreams, but the weirdest one I can think of off the top of my head was from a few month ago. I thought there was a spider playing the banjo on my head board. I wish I was joking. These kind of dreams happen all the time, at least twice a week!
Bahahahahaha!! That’s hilarious!
My 2 year old was having a terrible time with allergies turning into colds and then into ear infections. I was instructed to give her Benadryl before bed to help dry her up a bit. The first night…no big deal. Second night she started screaming and I went and picked her up and she was looking over my shoulder pointing and screaming “get me away from him!” I couldn’t soothe her or calm her down. Same thing next night. Turns out some little ones can get night terrors or hallucinations on Benadryl. Obviously we quickly found alternative solutions :). Other than that both girls have frilly princess dreams.
Pudding mix cookies are always big hits here. Will def be trying soon.
no. way. That is so crazy! I had no idea that could happen. We haven’t used benadryl but I don’t think I want to try now!
Those cookies look good, I rarely make a chocolate base cookie but I think I’ll give these a try-we love the chocolate/peanut butter combo in this house (who doesn’t though?!). My daughter is only two so she hasn’t told me any specific dream details but lately she will tell me things like “There was somebody in my room” when I get her up in the morning which is kind of creepy to me!!
Holy creepy!! I would totally be weirded out by that!