Using Up Leftover Candy: Reeces Peanut Butter Egg Cookies

My husband found this recipe on the all knowing magical cougarboard.com. One of the fellow cougar boarders  found this on Picky Palate, and my husband and I agreed they needed to be made. As you can see, most of our leftover Easter Candy is Reece's Peanut Butter Cup Eggs. I think between my husband and I, we bought 6 packages of them. Anyway, these are diet buster cookies, but definitely worth it!

Reeses Peanut Butter Egg Cookies

from Picky Palate

2 sticks softened butter
1 Cup packed brown sugar
1 Cup granulated sugar
3 Tablespoons corn syrup
2 large eggs plus 1 egg white
1 Tablespoon pure vanilla extract
3 1/2 Cups all purpose flour
1 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 Cups chopped Reeses Peanut Butter Eggs, 12 total eggs 


Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.  In a stand or electric mixer beat the butter, sugars and corn syrup until well combined….light and fluffy.  Beat in eggs and vanilla until well combined.
In a large bowl, mix the flour, baking soda and salt.  Slowly add to wet ingredients along with the chopped Reeses Peanut Butter Eggs.  Mix only until just combined.  Using a medium cookie scoop, scoop dough onto a silpat or parchment lined baking sheet.  Bake for 9-11 minutes until just turning golden around edges.  Let cookies cool for 5 minutes before transferring to a cooling rack. Makes 4 dozen cookies

Using Up Leftover Candy: Peanut Butter Oven Smore's

We have a lot of Easter candy, and this is pretty typical for all the candy holidays at our house. I usually buy way too much, but the problem is we aren't big candy eaters. Sometimes the best way to get rid of it, is make more treats! Make sense to you? Me either, but is is fun!

These are so good, I don't even need to explain anything. Sometimes I believe I am a food genius.

Peanut Butter Oven Smore's

Graham crackers
Marshmallows
Reece's Peanut Butter eggs (they are like peanut butter cups, but in the shape of an egg, they also have these at Halloween and Christmas, in different shapes obviously)

Set oven to Broil (I learned this trick from my best friend, doing smore's in the oven). Take 1 sheet of graham cracker, and break in half. Assemble smore using one half of the graham cracker on bottom, then the chocolate egg, and lastly balance two marshmallows on top of that. Stick in the oven and watch until marshmallows are browned. Remove baking sheet and top with another graham cracker. Delicious!

My husband bought me a giant version of the Reece's egg (like half pound size). We were just joking that I should make a monster smore with it. Cut it in half and stuff it with marshmallows and then bake it, mah haha!