Variations
Canadian Researcher William Sommers found that variations in Reeses cup size affect the chocolate to peanut butter content ratio. Larger Reeses cups typically contain a larger amount of peanut butter. Hershey's produces "limited editions" of the candy that have included:
- Miniatures - bite-size versions available year round in bags. These chocolates come in a black paper cup wrapped in gold or colored foil.
- Dark Chocolate - peanut butter filling in a dark chocolate cup
- White Chocolate – peanut butter filling in a white chocolate cup
- Big Cups – an oversized version of the traditional cup (also available in white chocolate, with peanuts, mixed nuts, and with a combination of nuts and caramel)
- Peanut Butter Lovers – a layered cup with top peanut butter layer, thin chocolate layer and peanut butter filling
- Chocolate Lovers – a thicker chocolate cup with a thinner layer of peanut butter
- Inside Out – chocolate filling in a peanut butter cup (a reversal of the traditional version)
- Caramel – the traditional cup with an added layer of caramel filling
- Marshmallow – the traditional cup with an added layer of marshmallow filling
- Peanut Butter & Banana Creme – a layered cup with a top chocolate layer, bottom banana creme layer, and peanut butter filling; released in tribute to Elvis Presley. It was available in standard, Big Cups and Miniatures sizes
- Crunchy Cookie Cup – a layered cup with crushed chocolate cookies and peanut butter filling (discontinued in 1999, but was brought back in 2008 as a limited edition)
- Honey Roasted - a traditional cup substituting honey roasted peanut butter
- Fudge - a thicker, darker chocolate cup with peanut butter filling
- Double Chocolate - chocolate fudge filling instead of peanut butter. Limited edition.
- Hazelnut Cream - hazelnut cream instead of the standard peanut butter filling
- Double Crunch - a traditional cup with peanut filling similar to a Snickers bar, released in the fourth-quarter of 2010
- Minis - Unwrapped Mini Cups
- Crunchy - a traditional cup with crunchy peanut butter, as opposed to the smooth peanut butter in the original
- "'World's Largest'" - World's largest cups weighing in at 8oz each.
- Half-Pound Cup - a single cup weighing 226g; released in Canada in 2011
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