If you love a smooth, uninterrupted bite of delicious peanut butter, you'll love REESE'S Creamy Peanut Butter Cups. It's okay to enjoy the simple things so join the smooth side and taste rich milk chocolate and an even richer peanut butter center.

Ingredients : 'ROASTED PEANUTS; SUGAR; CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: HYDROGENATED VEGETABLE OIL (RAPESEED, COTTONSEED, AND SOYBEAN OILS); SALT; PEANUT OIL; MONOGLYCERIDES; MOLASSES; CORNSTARCH.

The ingenious flavor combination in each of these treats can be traced back to 1928, when H.B. Reese, an employee of The Hershey Company, created REESE'S Peanut Butter Cups in his basement. The Hershey Company supplied Reese with the chocolate coating for his candy and eventually purchased his business in 1963.

The limited release items are available now through May 17. On May 18 - which, un-coincidentally, is “National I Love Reese's Day” - the brand will reveal the most popular peanut butter texture.

According to Wikipedia (feel free to take with a grain of salt - like in your favorite peanut butter), here lies the distinction: The two main types of peanut butter are crunchy (or chunky) and smooth (or creamy). In crunchy peanut butter, some coarsely-ground peanut fragments are included to give extra texture.

Hershey says the creamy cup has a "noticeably smoother texture," while the crunchy peanut butter cup "contains chunks of peanuts for that perfect crunchy bite."

Reese's Creamy Peanut Butter Sorry to disappoint, but one glance at the ingredients list, and you'll see it contains those problematic hydrogenated vegetable oils. Plus, fans of the candy have said this peanut butter doesn't even really taste like the deliciousness that is inside of the chocolate cup anyway.

Texture and Consistency: The peanut butter in Reese's cups is smoother and creamier compared to the thicker and often chunkier texture of traditional peanut butter in jars. This difference in texture is achieved through processing, including fine grinding and mixing with other ingredients.

Today, Reese's makes enough peanut cups each year to feed one cup to every person in the USA, Japan, Europe, Australia, China, Africa and India! Reese's Peanut Butter Cups are made in Hershey, PA, Stuarts Draft, WV and in Monterrey, MX.

Milk chocolate (sugar, cocoa butter, chocolate, nonfat milk. Milk fat, corn syrup solids, soy lecithin, PGPR (emulsifier), peanuts, sugar, dextrose, salt, TBHQ (preservative).

Hershey says the creamy cup has a "noticeably smoother texture," while the crunchy peanut butter cup "contains chunks of peanuts for that perfect crunchy bite."

History. The H.B. Reese Candy Company was established in 1923 by H. B. Reese in Hershey, Pennsylvania. The official product name was "Penny Cups" because they could be purchased for one cent.