These Peanut Butter Cup Brownies In A Jar are easy individual servings of dessert for a party! They can be given as gifts or sold at a bake sale!
I made these little beauties for my party on Monday and they were delicious! Over the top?? Sure, but delicious anyway! And besides being adorable, they were easy to make! They consist of brownies, chocolate frosting, peanut butter cups, and peanut butter frosting.
**Update: I recently learned that Ball canning jars are NOT oven safe so I’ve changed the directions for this blog post.**
Bake the brownies according to the directions on the package. Use a small cookie cutter or the top of the mason jar to cut circles of cooked brownies out of the 9×13 pan. Place the brownie circles in the mason jars.
Pipe on store-bought chocolate frosting on top of the brownies. Or make your own if you have the time.
I cut a bunch of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups into small chunks… sorry I didn’t count how many, but I think you need a little more than 1 peanut butter cup per jar.
Ingredients
Brownies:
- 1 brownie mix
- Water eggs and oil that are called for on the box
Chocolate Layer:
- 1-16 oz container of chocolate frosting
- Pipe chocolate frosting into each jar over the brownies.
Peanut Butter Cup Layer:
- About 18 Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
Peanut Butter Frosting:
- 1-16 oz container of vanilla frosting
- 1 cup peanut butter
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 3 tbsp half-n-half
Instructions
Brownies:
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Make the brownies according to the instructions on the package. Use a small cookie cutter or the top of the mason jar to cut circles of cooked brownies out of the 9×13 pan. Place the brownie circles in the mason jars.
Chocolate Layer:
- Pipe chocolate frosting into each jar, over the brownies.
Peanut Butter Cup Layer:
- Cut the peanut butter cups into chunks and place them on top of the chocolate frosting in the jars.
Peanut Butter Frosting:
- Mix together the vanilla frosting and peanut butter. Add the powdered sugar and mix well. Beat in 3 tbsp half-n-half until smooth and creamy. Pipe the peanut butter frosting over the peanut butter cups in the jars.
- Top each frosting peak with 1/4 of a peanut butter cup and store in the fridge until ready to serve!
Jan D says
May I get a printable copy. Looks awesome cant wait to bake. Thanks for sharing!
sue patton says
Gotta share what I did with these…Needed a holiday bake sale item for a fundraiser so I actually started by making the brownies in a cupcake pan. At my favorite dollar store I purchased a bag of red plastic forks,a couple of bags of clear cello treat sacks and a bag of clear plastic cocktail glasses. Sliced the brownies in half, put the bottom half into the cup,piped in the chocolate frosting and a few of the reese chunks, popped in the top of the brownies, another little layer of reese’ chunks and then piped in the pnut butter frosting and popped a reese’ mini on top…stuck one of my red forks down into he side of the cup and placed each cup in a cello bag and tied it tight with he twistie around the fork. They were ADORABLE and sold for TWO DOLLARS each!! So…at the next bake sale I repeated these, but also made a couple of dozen with Andes mints, green tinted mint frosting on top and a green fork and then made double chocolate frosting kit kat ones and used yellow forks and snickers ones with a pnut butter frosting topper again with gold forks….I actually picked up party napkins to match the forks this time and presented each purchase with a matching napkin.These sold for 2.50 each!! People loved them because they could walk around eating their treat while they looked at the other craft tables…they had their fork, napkin, and when they were done everything went into the cello bag and got tossed away neatly! I can’t tell you how many folks stopped on their way out to buy a couple to take home!! Two of these fit nicely in a brown paper lunch bag (50 for a 1.00 at the dollar store)!! I dd decide to make my own icing rather than buying the icing in a can the second time because it increased the profit per unit…but now I also make sure that whenever I see icing on sale…or brownie mixes…i grab a few and store them in my pantry for the next bake sale!!
Tonia says
Wonderful! I am so happy to hear that! The Andes mints version sounds fantastic. My sister is having a craft sale soon. I will have to tell her to try to make these! ~Tonia
sue patton says
Great! Tell your sister that we completely sold out of these both times! Loads of our other baked goods went home with the moms and grandmas. We actually could have sold triple what I baked because we were sold out long before the craft show was over and had so many folks come asking for them. I wonder how we’d do if we each baked a different flavor and had a complete “candy brownie cup” stand? This year I am going to add curly ribbons to the twist ties, add a few sprinkles and try cranking the price up to 3 bucks! I’m an old retailer from way back and I know for sure that…PRESENTATION=SALES!! ( of course…the yumminess of this great treat is what brought so many customers back to buy extras to take home!!!)
Rosey Newman says
be nice to be able to print this off. I hate it when I find good recipes and not able to print them off.
Tonia says
Thanks for the feedback Rosey! I’ll update the post when I get a chance but for now I would suggest that you copy and paste the recipe onto a blank document and print it off that way. Happy Baking! ~Tonia
Faye says
Just highlight and then copy the recipe. Then go to you email and paste in a message to yourself and send. The you can highlight again and right click to print. I do it all the time as I too, like to make a copy but there are no always a “print” tabs. Then I have a folder for just recipes there also. Just saying….but you may already know this.
Diana Hawes says
Tonia, Can you tell me how to print this? Usually you have a print icon and I just print out your absolutely wonderful recipes. Thankyou Diana
Tonia says
Sorry Diana, this recipe is from my old website and doesn’t have the right formatting yet. I will email it to you so that you can print it. Have a great weekend!
Amanda says
This looks amazing!!! I know a similar one. Make the brownies according to the box. Pour into jars. Then put one caramel in the center of each. Bake. Top with chopped pecans, hot fudge and cool whip. Serve warm. It is very good. Also for people with peanut allergies this is a nice alternative.
Sherry says
I made this & took it to work. Everybody loved it !! Will be a keeper !!!!!
bakeca ancona says
looks delicious, I want
Jan says
Pinning this yummy looking recipe 🙂 thank you!!
Tonia says
Thanks Jan!
Miranda Guettlein says
This would be a decent idea if any part of the recipe was homemade. Chocolate and peanut butter is overdone enough, at least make it yourself before you post it online.
Jan says
This would be a decent comment if any of it had been kind. Leaving rude comments is overdone enough, at least make yours original before posting!
Eve says
Amen. I love easy cute recipes but I’m no purist like some. I can happily eat anything if it’s good and boy do these look yummy. 🙂
theaccidentalblog91 says
Peanut butter and brownies together! Yummy!
The Answer Is Chocolate says
It’s a double feature for these! I included them in a special Valentine’s Chocolate post today. Happy Valentine’s Day!
Emily says
these just LOOK so nice! I am sure they taste great too. What a cute way to present a brownie! Would love for you to come over and link up to my Tasty Tuesday party! http://nap-timecreations.blogspot.com/2012/02/to-go-with-my-new-wreath-i-also-made.html
The Answer Is Chocolate says
Just wanted to let you know I featured this as part of my link party wrap up! (How could I not?!) Please feel free to grab a featured button from my sidebar if you like.
Joan@chocolateandmore says
These look so wonderful and I love my mason jars, can’t wait to try these, yum! Pinned!
Andie says
That was such a great recipe and presentation that I had to share it on my blog. http://andiesadventures.com/2012/02/do-you-love-chocolate.htmlI used one photo and linked back to your site. Hope you don’t mind.Thank you for sharing that. I love your site. Lot’s of cute ideas.
Tracy T says
I am pinning this and adding it to my blog!! I am pregnant and any of these ideas have me running to the grocery store for ingredients. -Tracyhttp://www.awifeamomalife.com
Eternal*Voyageur says
I’m already drooling!
1CardCreator says
Wow, looks like a great recipe!
Vicky says
These look heavenly. So delicious and such a great presentation. I have pinned this. I am a new follower visiting from Whipperberry. Vicky from Mess For Less
Katie says
all I can say is drool! Going to pin them now!You should join me for Handmade 52! http://raisingoranges.blogspot.com/ -Katie
Jill @ KitchenFunWithMy3Sons.com says
We are hosting our first Kitchen Fun and Crafty link party next Friday and would love for you to share this! Feel free to stop by and grab a party button! http://kitchenfunwithmy3sons.blogspot.com/
Meg {henninglove} says
oh my tonia you have suddenly given me a ravenous raving for all things peanut butter and chocolate. they look ah-mazing!!
happylittlewonders says
These look amazing! Thanks for sharing! And Happy SITS day!