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.

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