I'm not sure what it is about the combination of peanut butter and chocolate but I can
NEVER seem to get enough.
Reese's Peanut Butter Cups are always an option but I feel like they have no flavor,
another option is to go to a gourmet candy store and buy Peanut Butter Cups but why
would you do that when you can make them at home from stuff you probably already
have in your kitchen cupboards?! These homemade Peanut Butter Cups are
inexpensive and taste SO much better than anything you can buy at a store. Somehow
they all disappear in one day. :]
Ingredients:
1-cup semisweet chocolate chips
1/2-cup milk chocolate chips
2 tablespoons peanut butter
Pinch of salt
2 tablespoons peanut butter
Pinch of salt
For the filling:
3/4-cup peanut butter
1/3-cup powdered sugar
Pinch of salt
3/4-cup peanut butter
1/3-cup powdered sugar
Pinch of salt
Prepare a standard muffin tin
with 12 paper liners.
Using a double boiler, combine chocolate chips, peanut butter and salt stirring
continuously
to avoid burning the chocolate. (If you don’t have access to a
double boiler you can place
ingredients into a microwave safe bowl and heat in
1-minute intervals stirring occasionally
until all ingredients are combined.)
Place about 2 teaspoons of the melted chocolate mixture in each cupcake liner
and
carefully spread around with the back of a spoon at the bottom and about 1/4
to 1/2 of the
way up the liner. Repeat with all 12 liners. Place the muffin tin
with all 12 chocolate liners
into the freezer for about 5 minutes to harden.
While the chocolate liners are hardening, prepare the filling: Combine peanut
butter,
powdered sugar and salt together. (I found it easiest to combine these
ingredients by also
melting them in a double boiler.)
The chocolate liners should be hard by now. Scoop 1 heaping teaspoon into each
of the
12 liners pressing down gently to make sure the peanut butter mixture spreads
evenly.
Place in the freezer again for
another 5 minutes to let the peanut butter harden.
Top with 2 teaspoons of the melted chocolate mixture, spreading carefully so
that none of
the peanut butter can be seen. Place cups in freezer once more to
allow the top layer to
harden.
Just make sure to store them in
either the fridge or freezer, as they tend to melt easily.
Enjoy!