Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup Oatmeal Cookies

 - by lexie

Boy oh boy do I have a recipe for you!

While my Mum was over we stopped at Trader Joe’s to pick up some groceries and just happened to stumble upon a box of Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups. PB cups are not available in Australia and my Mum usual

ly makes sure to take a bag or two back for all her work friends who have tried and loved them. So of course she had to get the Dark Choc variety to take back. The only problem was, they never made it on the plane with her! She accidentally left them in my fridge :-(

So all week I have been staring at the box wondering what I should do with them. I decided to chop them up and make peanut butter cookies. Because I kind of just made up the recipe as I went along I was a little unsure of what the consistency would be like, but turns out they are pretty darn delicious!

Note: These can also be made by omitting the natural peanut butter and just using the PB cups for flavoring.

Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup Cookies

  • 1.5 cups oats
  • 1 cup whole wheat flour
  • 1/4

    cup natural peanut butter

  • 1/2 cup brown sugar
  • 1 cup unsweetened apple sauce (substitute used in place of 1 egg)
  • 1 mashed banana (substitute used in place of 1/2 cup butter)
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 tsp baking soda

Chop up peanut butter cups into chunky pieces.

Simply combine all ingredients in a large mixing bowl, stirring thoroughly and making sure that the peanut butter is distributed evenly throughout the batter.

Bake at 350F for 25-30 mins (depending on whether you like your cookies soft or crunchy). Let cool on the tray before removing.

Enjoy!

Question: How do you like your cookies? Soft? Crunchy? A little of both??

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  • Cayla

    Those cookies look soooo good!!! Last night I made chocolate chip pumpkin cookies that turned out amazing!

  • Cathy

    man…I wish I was there to taste the cookies I could have made! Glad they were put to good use…I did not even get to taste one!

  • http://swankydietitian.com Kristen @ Swanky Dietitian

    Oh wow, these cookies look amazing!
    I love how you can get a bite of delicious peanut butter cup in each bite!! Definitely going to make these.

  • http://eatingrd.com eatingRD

    I am a huge fan of pb and dark chocolate so these look great! Found your site thanks to SwankyDietitian. I have to ask if you like TimTams and if you could ship me over about a dozen boxes that would be great lol ;)

  • http://twitter.com/kcollignon kcollignon

    These look delicious. Can’t wait to try some!!

    • lexie

      I’ll send some your way if you’re lucky :-)

    • Anonymous

      I’ll make sure to send some your way :)