Peanut Butter Cups
chocolate cups with a peanut butter filling
Super Easy 4-Ingredient Peanut Butter Cups
These are such a fun snack, and dare I say it, taste even better than the originals. Though this recipe only requires 4 ingredients, you must use high quality ingredients to get the best flavour and taste. Super easy to make, a great party snack and once you start eating them, you just can’t stop!
Some notes and tips:
CHOCOLATE
When it comes to choosing the right chocolate, go for a chocolate that you love the taste of. You can can make these cups using just milk chocolate, however I used a mix of dark and milk as I wanted a higher % of cocoa in the cups. This helps to achieve the right balance between the sweet and saltiness of these cups. Plus, sea salt compliments darker chocolate really well. To melt the chocolate you can either:
→ Put the chocolate mixture into the microwave. Start with 1 minute. do this in 15-second intervals, make sure to stir the chocolate after each interval and keep heating until the chocolate is completely smooth.
→ Use the double boiler method where you put the chocolate and coconut oil into a glass mixing bowl and place it on top of a pot that is filled half way with hot/boiling water.
These cups can be made without coconut oil if you don’t have any, however it adds a great shine to the chocolate and also enhances the taste.
PEANUT BUTTER
You must use smooth peanut butter for this recipe as you don’t want the centre to be grainy. The peanut butter can be replaced with almond butter if preferred.
LAYERS
You can adjust the amounts of peanut butter and chocolate depending on how thick you would like the layers on your cups to be.
CAN THESE BE MADE VEGAN?
You can easily veganise these peanut butter cups by using vegan chocolate instead. You can also swap the powdered sugar for maple syrup if you like.
Peanut Butter Cups
Ingredients
Instructions
- Chop your chocolate finely and set aside.
- Lay out your cupcake cases on a baking tray. If you have a cupcake tray, placing the cases in the moulds works perfectly. You can also place them on any dish that can go into the freezer. I put mine on a normal baking tray.
- Add 1 tablespoon of coconut oil to 1 cup of the chopped chocolate and melt until the chocolate is completely smooth.
- Put 1 tablespoon of the melted chocolate into each cupcake case and place in the freezer for about 10-12 minutes until the chocolate is completely firm.
- Meanwhile, mix the smooth peanut butter with the powdered sugar and it'll form a dough like texture. Taste and adjust the amount of sugar according to your desired level of sweetness. You can also add a pinch of salt to your peanut butter here for extra flavour (as long as your peanut butter isn’t already salted).
- Remove the tray from the freezer and place 1 teaspoon of the peanut butter mixture onto the now firm chocolate and flatten a little with your spoon. Put this back into the freezer for another 10-12 minutes.
- Melt the other cup of the chocolate with 1 tablespoon of coconut oil the same way you did in step 3.
- Remove the tray from the freezer again and add the final tablespoon of melted chocolate to each case to close your cups. Quickly sprinkle the coarse sea salt whilst the chocolate is still melted so that it sticks to the cups.
- Put the cups back into the freezer for another 10-12 minutes to set. Serve and enjoy.
Storage:
In the fridge is best. If left at room temperature these peanut butter cups will start to melt.
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