Reese's Pieces Cookies with Peanut Buttercream Icing
Soft peanut butter candy cookies with dairy-free chocolate chips and a plant-butter peanut buttercream. Make them as frosted cookies or sandwich cookies.
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A bakery-style cookie built around plant butter, dairy-free chocolate chips, and label-verified candy mix-ins, with the highest-risk packaged ingredients called out before baking.
What is known
- •Country Crock Plant Butter: verify the tub or stick you buy is plant-based and does not list dairy-derived ingredients.
- •Reese's Pieces: use only a formulation that works for your tolerance and verify the label every time, because candy formulas and shared-line disclosures can change.
- •Chocolate chips: Guittard dairy-free chocolate chips are the intended option here; if substituting, confirm the replacement is dairy-free.
- •Peanut butter chips: many peanut butter chips contain milk ingredients. Use only a verified dairy-free option, or omit them and increase the Reese's Pieces or dairy-free chocolate chips.
- •Oat milk: choose a carrageenan-free oat milk if carrageenan is a personal trigger.
- •This recipe avoids mammalian meat, lard, gelatin, and dairy when the packaged ingredients are verified as listed. Re-check labels with each purchase.
Substitutions that keep the logic intact
These swaps are meant to preserve the trust reasoning of the recipe, not just its flavor.
- •Omit the peanut butter chips if you cannot find a label-verified dairy-free option.
- •Use extra dairy-free chocolate chips or Reese's Pieces in place of uncertain peanut butter chips.
- •Use another dairy-free plant butter if Country Crock is unavailable, but confirm the label before baking.
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Packaged ingredient formulas, sourcing, and individual tolerance can change the outcome. That uncertainty should be treated as part of the decision, not hidden.
- •Do not assume Reese's Pieces or peanut butter chips are safe across stores or dates; verify the exact package in hand.
- •The frosting depends on plant butter and oat milk, so re-check both labels for dairy and carrageenan before mixing.
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Ingredients
- •2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- •2 teaspoons cornstarch
- •1 teaspoon baking powder
- •1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- •1 1/2 teaspoons salt
- •3/4 cup Country Crock Plant Butter, room temperature
- •3/4 cup brown sugar
- •1/2 cup granulated sugar
- •1 large egg, room temperature
- •2 teaspoons vanilla extract or vanilla bean paste
- •1/2 cup Reese's Pieces, label-verified for your tolerance
- •1/2 cup Guittard dairy-free chocolate chips
- •1/4 cup dairy-free peanut butter chips, or omit if unavailable
- •1/2 cup Country Crock Plant Butter, room temperature, for frosting
- •1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
- •1 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar
- •1/2 teaspoon salt, for frosting
- •1 teaspoon vanilla, for frosting
- •2 tablespoons oat milk, or as needed for frosting consistency
Instructions
- 1.Preheat oven to 375 F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat.
- 2.Whisk together the flour, cornstarch, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a medium bowl. Set aside.
- 3.Cream the plant butter, brown sugar, and granulated sugar on medium speed for 2-3 minutes, scraping down the sides as needed, until smooth and combined.
- 4.Add the egg and vanilla. Mix for about 1 minute.
- 5.Add the dry ingredients and mix just until combined.
- 6.Fold in the Reese's Pieces, dairy-free chocolate chips, and verified dairy-free peanut butter chips.
- 7.Roll the dough into 2-inch balls and place them on the prepared baking sheet.
- 8.Bake for 8-10 minutes, depending on your oven, until the cookies are light golden brown. Cool before frosting.
- 9.To make the frosting, beat the peanut butter and softened plant butter until smooth.
- 10.Slowly add confectioners' sugar in 1/2-cup increments, mixing until smooth after each addition.
- 11.Add vanilla and salt, then add oat milk in small increments until the frosting reaches your desired consistency.
- 12.Spread or pipe the frosting onto cooled cookies, or use it as a sandwich cookie filling.
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