Good morning! I hope your week is off to a good start. Mine is busy, busy, busy already. I feel like I’ve been packing forever. I’m so ready to just be in the new house and get organized. I hate packing and moving, but I LOVE to organize. I’m secretly looking forward to unpacking at the rental house and putting everything in its new place. 
I’ll quickly take a brake from the chaos to share a positively sinful cookie sandwich with you. I’ve been on “Operation Clean Out the Pantry” over the last few weeks, so that we don’t have to move lots of food. I had some Reece’s cups and chocolate cake mix on hand, so I whipped up a scrumptious treat.
Ooooh yum. They are every bit as good as they look and then some. I mean, if you like chocolate and peanut butter. But who doesn’t?
I don’t know what my deal is, but I always forget how to make butter cream. For some reason, this time around, I thought it called for TWO sticks of butter with three cups of powdered sugar. No, I did not open a recipe book or look up a recipe online. I was just so sure that I knew what I was doing. Add 3/4 cup peanut butter and some cocoa and voila! The creamiest and richest butter cream ever!
Fudgy Cookie Pies with Chocolate Peanut Butter Frosting
Ingredients
- 1 box chocolate cake mix
- 2 eggs
- 1/3 cup oil
- 1/8 cup water
- 20 mini Reece’s cups, unwrapped and chopped
- 1-2 sticks softened butter (I accidentally used 2 and it tasted great, but very rich. 1 would be plenty)
- ¾ cup creamy peanut butter
- 3 cups powdered sugar
- 2 tbsp. cocoa powder
- 1 tbsp milk
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper.
- In a large bowl combine cake mix, eggs, oil and water until thoroughly mixed. Stir in Reece’s pieces.
- Scoop onto sheet by heaping teaspoons and bake for 12-15 minutes (my AirBake sheets take 15 minutes). Cool completely on a wire rack.
- While cookies cool, prepare butter cream filling.
- In a large bowl, beat butter and peanut butter until combined. Gradually beat in sugar and cocoa powder. Thin with milk, if necessary.
- Spread a heaping tablespoon of frosting onto one cookie, top with another.
Makes about 15 cookie pies
Mmmm….cookie batter. Is there anything else you need in life?
I’m still laughing about my butter cream snafu. The Duke took the Cookie Pies to work and his coworkers flipped for them! I’ll never tell them my little mistake secret that made them so delicious. 
The Duchess
I can’t wait to try these!!
oddly enough i am not a fan of the peanut butter and chocolate combo at all, but it is my boyfriend’s favorite. pretty sure making these for him would result in a ring on my finger
Molly,
My mouth is watering over this recipe! So I am cooking a dessert for my boyfriend’s family for Memorial Weekend and can’t decide between this and Nutter Butter Chocolate Chipsters. Suggestions?!