New Reese’s PB&J Peanut Butter Cups – Taste Test

There's always a new flavor variety in the candy aisle.

Oreo cookies seem to have a thousand new variants every year, popular favorites like Snicker's even cereal like Cap'n Crunch have new flavors every so often.

Reese's Peanut Butter Cups have had several varieties in the past, themselves, with everything from ones with full peanuts, ones with potato chips, ones with Reese's Puffs cereal and Reese's Pieces which is so meta.

The latest variety is a no brainer when it comes to Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. PB&J. Peanut Butter and Jelly.

This is a can't-lose combination, but is it really?

They have both Strawberry and Grape varieties so I grabbed one of each and even put one at room temperature and one in the freezer to try them both under two different conditions.

First, the room temperature setting.

I first tried the strawberry one and, I'm here to say, it was a little dissapointing.

Too much peanut butter, not enough jelly.

The flavor was fine, but I was hoping for more of a nicer ratio. Even if it was 75% peanut butter, 25% jelly but these are more 95% peanut butter, 5% jelly.

Next I tried the grape one. Grape jelly is one of my favorites so I'm sure I was going to love this.

Turns out... I couldn't even taste it. Upon my next bite I just bit only the bottom part where the jelly has been and, still, nothing.

Next I tried them frozen. I prefer my peanut butter cups chilled in the freezer. It doesn't really 'freeze' them but just makes them cold.

I could actually taste the grape a little better this way, but not by much. And it made the jelly a kind of gummy texture. Not bad, but as you'd imagine.

Same with strawberry.

Well, now I'm full on peanut butter cups and all out of milk so, yes, they're pretty good but don't expect a lot of jam.

I say jam as 'it must be jam 'cuz jelly don't shake' and, in this case, nothing was shaking.

I found these at Rosauer's on 72nd in Yakima but I'm sure they're available elsewhere, too.