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.

Ingredients. Roasted Peanuts, Sugar, Contains 2% or Less of: Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil (Rapeseed, Cottonseed, and Soybean Oils), Salt, Peanut Oil, Monoglycerides, Molasses, Cornstarch.

If Reese's-as-ice-cream sounds familiar, it should. For more than 20 years, Hershey has partnered with Unilever to make Reese's ice cream.

yet we can almost smell the peanut-buttery deliciousness being created just down the road here in Hershey, Pa.

8 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Reese's

• Harry Burnett Reese's First Attempt in the Candy Business was a Total Fail.
• Reese's Second (and Wildly More Successful) Shot at the Candy Business Began in His Basement.
• You Can Purchase Half-Pound Reese's Cups.
• E.T. Was Supposed to be Eating M&Ms, Not Reese's Pieces.

In 1969, only six years after the Reese/Hershey merger, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups became The Hershey Company's top seller.

MILK CHOCOLATE (SUGAR, COCOA BUTTER, CHOCOLATE, SKIM MILK, MILK FAT, LACTOSE, LECITHIN (SOY), PGPR), PEANUTS, SUGAR, DEXTROSE, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: VEGETABLE OIL (PALM OIL, SHEA OIL, SUNFLOWER OIL, PALM KERNEL OIL, &/OR SAFFLOWER OIL), HYDROGENATED VEGETABLE OIL (PALM KERNEL OIL, PALM OIL), SALT, PGPR, TBHQ & CITRIC ...

Hershey, Pa That's right – Direct from the Factory to your mouth just days after being made. REESE'S Chocolates is the number one candy brand in the United States and the biggest confectionery brand in the whole world… yet we can almost smell the peanut-buttery deliciousness being created just down the road here in Hershey, Pa.

REESE'S ice cream is packed with sweet milk chocolate and peanut butter cups to please your palette and make all your peanut butter candy dreams come true. From our ice cream tubs and cones to sandwiches and so much more, you're sure to find your next ice cream obsession.

1928 When were REESE'S cups invented? REESE'S peanut butter cups were created by Harry Burnett (H.B.) Reese in 1928. H.B. Reese was a former employee of the Hershey Chocolate Company when he invented REESE'S peanut butter chocolate candy.

While the chocolate is sweet and smooth, the peanut butter is salty and crumbly. When combined, it's an exciting experience for your taste buds - which is the dynamic sensory contrast at work. Seems like the food scientists behind the Reese's recipe got the balance of the chocolate and peanut butter down to a T.

Reese's takes a finely mixed peanut butter mixture and combines it with powered sugar . The sugar absorbs the peanut oil and thereby changes the viscosity . And it also helps the candy peanut butter to melt in your mouth in a different way then just peanut butter would do alone.

Reese's Peanut Butter Cups Reese's Peanut Butter Cups were invented by Hershey's employee and father of 16 H.B. Reese in 1928. For the past 91 years, they've been the standard for all things peanut butter and chocolate. Not surprisingly, as the original, they're still the bestselling Reese's product.

Reese's are the top-selling candy brand worldwide, with more than $2 billion in annual sales generated for The Hershey Company.

Reese's Crispy Crunchy is a candy bar made of flaky peanut butter and chopped peanuts coated with milk chocolate. It was introduced in 2006.

The Hershey Company Reese's Peanut Butter Cups are an American candy by The Hershey Company consisting of a peanut butter cup encased in chocolate. They were created on November 15, 1928, by H. B. Reese, a former dairy farmer and shipping foreman for Milton S. Hershey.