Perfect for Christmas giving and eating, Peanut Butter Rolo Cookies are salty, sweet, crispy, chewy goodness and they are easy to make. You can even make them ahead and freeze them!
Ingredients List
For this recipe you will need the following ingredients: Unsalted butter, peanut butter, sugar, brown sugar, eggs, vanilla, all-purpose flour, baking soda, Rolos, and colored sugar for decorating. You’ll need to have at least 15 minutes total for the prep time and the bake time.
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My kids love Rolos. Really. They fight over them like they do the last few marshmallows in Lucky Charms. Which leads me to a random question. Do your kids eat all the marshmallows out of the Lucky Charms and then leave the rest of the cereal there for eternity? Yeah, mine too.
Yum.
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Although these cookies are good warm or cooled off, there was some debate about the exact perfect temperature. One of my children liked them really warm (be careful, the insides are hot) so that the caramel and chocolate are a liquid and drip out with every bite. Another thinks they are perfect at warm but not hot so that the caramel is gooey, and another liked them cold so that the caramel and chocolate are more solid. The texture and flavor changes in this cookie as it cools so you really are forced to try it at each temperature.
Forced, I’m telling ya.
In any case it is a tender cookie with the flavors of peanut butter, chocolate, and caramel in each bite. It takes a little practice to seal the dough around the candy but be sure to cover it completely so all that melty goodness stays on the inside.
I am thinkin’ if you leave a few of these out for Santa you just might get that really big gift you have been asking for every year. You know, yeah… that one.
It’s a good cookie for the kids to help with, too. You can wrap the dough around the Rolos and the kids can roll the cookie balls in colored sugar. Sprinkles work just fine, too.
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I thought these treat boxes were perfect for holding those holiday gifts from the kitchen! I don’t know about you but I am always looking for something cute to give the cookies in.
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Here’s the Peanut Butter Rolo Cookies Recipe
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter
- 1/2 cup peanut butter
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup brown sugar , packed
- 2 eggs
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 3 1/4 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 bag of Rolos , unwrapped
- Turbinado Sugar (or colored sugar, or sprinkles)
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Preheat the oven to 350F and line a baking sheet with silpat
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Cream butter, peanut butter, and sugars in the mixer until well blended
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Beat in the eggs, one at a time
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Stir in flour and baking soda
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Using a well rounded teaspoon of the dough wrap it around a Rolo candy, encasing it completely
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Roll in Turbinado sugar. Don't flatten! Place on baking sheets
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Bake 8 to 9 minutes
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Cool. Cookies will flatten out a little as they cool
freeze well, baked or unbaked.
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I like how the rolo is a fun surprise inside
Love the hidden rollo in these cookies. They look like simple butter cookies, but then “hello” out comes the gooey surprise. Yum!
What a treat! These are like a double whammy of delicious! Love this idea!
Thanks Patricia! They are a favorite!
These cookies look heavenly. I can never look at rolo candy the same way again. Tahnk you for such a creative recipe.
🙂 Thanks! They are so good. 🙂
Hi, I ran this recipe through my nutrient checking software, and these babies are 14 grams of carbs each, which is a hair under 1 carb (dietary unit) and 1/4 of the carbs I’m allowed to have in a whole meal. . No way am I going to be able to limit these to one per meal, so I’ll have to pass because they look TOO GOOD.
Yes, this is not a low-carb blog. You may like these low carb sugar cookies on my low carb blog, lowcarb-ology. http://www.lowcarb-ology.com/low-carb-vanilla-bean-sugar-cookies/
Wow, totally decadent. Who could resist these? 🙂
What an ingenious idea! I would never have thought of putting rollo in a cookie. This is my idea of a comfort cookie
What a genius cookie idea! Rolos were a favorite of mine as a kid and I get nostalgic just thinking about making these cookies!
I currently have TWO boxes of lucky charms cereal minus the marshmallows on top of my fridge :)and I would go right for the center of these babies
Such fun cookies! I love the surprise middles 🙂
Rolos! One of my childhood favorites! I like how you’re “forced” to try them at different temperatures. 🙂
Oh my! These look so good. I used to love Rolo candy. I haven’t had one in years. I forgot they existed. This brings back memories because I remember when they first came out and my sister’s and I going to White Hen Pantry to purchase them and of course, fighting over them as well.
🙂 you will love these.