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This recipe for Peanut Butter Popcorn is so good! It has Oreos, peanut butter, and Reese's Pieces. Quick and easy treat!

Ultimate Peanut Butter Popcorn Recipe

Crunchy, creamy, sweet and peanut butter-y popcorn. Ready in under 30 minutes, and you won’t be able to put it down!

This recipe for Peanut Butter Popcorn is so good! It has Oreos, peanut butter, and Reese's Pieces. Quick and easy treat!

I’ve obviously been in the mood for snacking lately. I don’t know if it’s me trying to prepare lots of Super Bowl recipes, or if it’s just the fact that I’ve been dieting for 19 days a billion years.

(How are your New Year’s eating resolutions going? Still going strong?)

Either way, munchies have been on the brain, because the past two weeks of recipes have included 2 snack mixes and 2 dips, plus today’s popcorn and yet another dip recipe tomorrow. ????

This recipe for Peanut Butter Popcorn is so good! It has Oreos, peanut butter, and Reese's Pieces. Quick and easy treat!

Today’s popcorn is one of my favorites from the book,ย Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Popcorn (on page 75)! This is one of my most used go-to recipes for a quick and easy popcorn treat that can be packaged for giving away or for entertaining guests.

This Ultimate Peanut Butter Popcorn recipe is a slight variation on the chocolate chip version in my book. Beyond creamy peanut butter and white chocolate, this version is also stuffed with lots of Oreos (is there a more heavenly combination than Oreos and PB?), Reese’s Pieces, and a chocolate-y drizzle.

This recipe for Peanut Butter Popcorn is so good! It has Oreos, peanut butter, and Reese's Pieces. Quick and easy treat!

As I always do when making any sort of chocolate-coated confection that will be eaten with hands, I used Ghirardelli Candy Melts (NOT white chocolate chips). I’ve sang the praises of this much loved ingredient over and over again. But in case you’ve missed my soap box spiel on candy melts, here’s the gist:

Yes, I know we all love REAL chocolate chips the best. But candy melts will work SO MUCH BETTER in candy making and coating, because they are made specifically to melt well. They melt smoothly and quickly without seizing, they coat better than normal chocolate, they cool and harden quickly, and the hardened coating won’t melt all over your hands when handling.

Just use the melts please (available at Target, Walmart, Michaels, and other stores).

Rant over. ????

This recipe for Peanut Butter Popcorn is so good! It has Oreos, peanut butter, and Reese's Pieces. Quick and easy treat!

And you might also remember me saying this before, but it bears repeating: I LOVE this Boom Chicka Pop (found at Target) for my popcorn munch mixes!

It’s sweet and crunchy, with a sugary shell that protects the kernels from any sort of moisture from the chocolate. And it’s just overall perfection.

Of course, you can always use microwave popcorn or air popped (which has always been my preferred method in the past, I melted through TWO poppers when I was writing the book!). Your choice. But if you can get your hands on some bagged kettle corn, you’ll save a little time plus add some sweet crunch to every delectable bite.

This recipe for Peanut Butter Popcorn is so good! It has Oreos, peanut butter, and Reese's Pieces. Quick and easy treat!

So… wanna see how easy it is to make this??? (Say yes! Say yes!)

I made another video for you!!! I’m brand new to the video-making thing, so I don’t have many under my belt yet. But I’d say this one is already a big improvement from the first, and I’ve been SO excited to share it with you.

I hope you like it!

What did you think?ย My brother and I have been working so hard on making more videos for you, and I can’t wait for you guys to see them.

For now, I hope you fall in love with the Peanut Butter Popcorn as much as I have. It’s perfect for a quick, last minute treat and completely addictive. For a fun variation, try adding M&Ms, PB cups, Nutter Butter cookies, or miniature marshmallows! Just to name a few ????.

This is a recipe from my local bakery and it is SO good! Peanut butter smeared on top of chocolate chip cookie dough and topped with M&Ms. EASY too :)

Bakery Style Peanut Butter Swirl Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe

These easy, three-ingredient bakery-style cookies will knock your socks off! Crispy edges, soft centers, and heavy on the peanut butter please.

This is a recipe from my local bakery and it is SO good! Peanut butter smeared on top of chocolate chip cookie dough and topped with M&Ms. EASY too :)

Truth: I wasย thisclose to not posting this recipe. But my my deep and abiding love for these peanut buttery cookies trumped my hesitation, and here we are ????.

Let’s go ahead and take care of the elephant in the room: these cookies are not pretty. They’re not sexy.ย You’ll find no shiny, melting pools of chocolate here. They aren’t thick and fluffy. They’re intentionally overbaked and irregularly shaped.ย And guess what else?

They’re not even made from scratch.

I know. ????

Still with me?

Good. Because these cookies are going to knock your socks off. I promise.

This is a recipe from my local bakery and it is SO good! Peanut butter smeared on top of chocolate chip cookie dough and topped with M&Ms. EASY too :)

My mom and I visit a nearby deli for lunch pretty often. And by “pretty often,” I mean 4 or 5 days a week. It’s a problem, really. We’re addicted. Mostly to the sweet potato fries (omg). But I could really close my eyes and point to just about anything on the menu and know I’ll like it. It’s that kind of place. I could eat their chicken salad all day long and be so happy.

In addition to their sandwiches of all sorts, this deli has a fully stocked case of baked goods at the check out. And on top of the case, they haphazardly strew these saran-wrapped GINORMOUS peanut butter chocolate chip cookies.

These cookies are thin and crispy around the edges. And they have this thick, luscious swirl of peanut butter that winds all the way through the cookie. They top theirs with Reese’s Pieces (which I actually prefer), but I used M&MS in this post so I could use Valentine’s colored candy (priorities people!).

This is a recipe from my local bakery and it is SO good! Peanut butter smeared on top of chocolate chip cookie dough and topped with M&Ms. EASY too :)

When I was pregnant (and for a while after), I picked up one of these cookies every visit. I’d wait until I got in my car to break off a piece, thinking I could just eat a little bit and save the rest for later. It was ALWAYS completely gone by the time I got home (a less than 5 minute drive).

After one bite, I just can’t control myself. They are SO GOOD!

I spent weeks trying to work out the logistics of how I could replicate the cookie at home. I couldn’t figure out that thick peanut butter swirl and layer on top. I toyed with a few ideas, none of which were very promising, before finally asking the cashier at the deli about who made their cookies (they have an outside vendor for most of the baked goods).

I was prepared to hunt down this baker and beg for her peanut butter swirling secrets. As it turned out, no begging required. The cashier told me that the cookies were made in house and that the recipe is as simple as this:

“We just smush three chocolate chip cookies together, spread peanut butter on top, and stick some Reese’s Pieces on top of that.”

This is a recipe from my local bakery and it is SO good! Peanut butter smeared on top of chocolate chip cookie dough and topped with M&Ms. EASY too :)

She was right– it wasย thatย easy. It only took me one try to make an exact duplicate at home (so dangerous). I used frozen cookie dough, since I was pretty confident they weren’t making dough from scratch there at the deli. And then I spread on the peanut butter and candy, just like she said, and VOILA! My favorite cookie made right in my kitchen.

Easy peasy. My waistline is not pleased.

So there you have it– it’s not elegant, and it’s certainly no culinary feat whatsoever. But, frozen cookie dough and all, it’s one seriously good cookie.