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Homemade Peanut Butter Cups
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Homemade Peanut Butter Cups are a budget friendly way to enjoy your favorite chocolate and peanut butter sweet treats at home. Creamy and delicious, they are filled with peanut butter, two secret ingredients, and covered in chocolate. This recipe is kid friendly and mom approved!
If you have an peanut allergic child at home we have the best solution for you! Use Wowbutter in place of the peanut butter called for in this recipe. It tastes amazing and your friends and family won't even know the difference. I promise!
This easy dessert recipe is perfect for holidays, birthday parties, baby showers, or anytime you want a sweet and delicious cookie recipe to eat.
WHAT INGREDIENTS DO YOU NEED TO MAKE HOMEMADE PEANUT BUTTER CUPS
You’ll be surprised to see just how basic and easy this recipe is. It uses a two secret ingredients – salt and powered sugar that turns these peanut butter cups into something absolutely spectacular!
I promise you won’t be disappointed with copycat Reese's Peanut Butter Cup recipe.
Here’s what you’ll need to get started:
- individual paper candy liners, 1-inch in size
- peanut butter, * or use a peanut butter alternative like Wowbutter if you have a peanut allergic child
- powdered sugar
- salt
- butter
- Hershey's milk chocolate chips
- coconut oil
INGREDIENT SUBSTITUTIONS AND ADDITIONS
PEANUT BUTTER: You can easily swap it out with Wowbutter if you are serving this to school aged children. In all of our testing, Wowbutter tastes the closest to regular peanut butter in blind taste tests here at home with our kids.
COCONUT OIL: I know not everyone has coconut oil on hand and that's okay. You can easily swap out the coconut oil for butter flavored shortening, or even vegetable oil if needed.
HOW TO MAKE THESE HOMEMADE PEANUT BUTTER CUPS
FIRST STEP: Place mini paper liners on a baking sheet.
SECOND STEP: Melt chocolate chips and coconut oil in medium, uncovered, microwave-safe bowl for 30 seconds. Stir together and repeat microwaving at 15 second intervals, stirring in-between each round until the chocolate is completely melted.
THIRD STEP: In a separate bowl combine peanut butter, powdered sugar, butter and table salt. Mix until no lumps remain and mixture is well incorporated.
FOURTH STEP: Spoon about 1 - 1 ½ teaspoon of melted morsels into each cup making sure to cover the sides of the cup about half way up the paper liner. Roll peanut butter into small balls. Squish them between your palms to flatten them a bit and then place on top of melted chocolate in paper cups.
FIFTH STEP: Top each with an additional 1 teaspoon of melted chocolate. Place in the freezer for 20 minutes, or refrigerate until firm.
Homemade Peanut Butter Cups
Ingredients
- 30 individual paper candy liners 1-inch in size
- ⅓ cup peanut butter * or use a peanut butter alternative like Wowbutter if you have a peanut allergic child
- ¾ cup powdered sugar
- ⅛ teaspoon table salt
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 ⅔ cup Hershey's milk chocolate chips
- 1 tablespoon coconut oil
Instructions
- Place mini paper liners on a baking sheet.
- Melt chocolate chips and coconut oil in medium, uncovered, microwave-safe bowl on MEDIUM-HIGH (70%) power for 30 seconds. Stir together and repeat microwaving at 15 second intervals, stirring in-between each round until the chocolate is completely melted.
- In a separate bowl combine peanut butter, powdered sugar, butter and table salt. Mix until no lumps remain and mixture is well incorporated.
- Spoon about 1 - 1 ½ teaspoon of melted morsels into each cup making sure to cover the sides of the cup about half way up the paper liner. Roll peanut butter into small balls. Squish them between your palms to flatten them a bit and then place on top of melted chocolate in paper cups.
- Top each with an additional 1 teaspoon of melted chocolate. Place in the freezer for 20 minutes, or refrigerate until firm.
Comments
Aliska says
Love to bake I'll have to try some of these recipes
Mama G says
These look absolutely AMAZING! I'm crazy about peanut butter and chocolate - but in the UK it's not very common to find (and when you do find things like Reese's they're so expensive!) Going to make some of these for my birthday party 🙂
Rachel Willis says
Hi Shauna! Just want to say thanks for linking up each week at Wicked Good Wednesdays! AND to let you know that you are our most clicked link feature! These look incredibly awesome, girl! Oh and the party is going to be really late in getting started, but I hope you will stop by tomorrow evening or Thursday morning and link up with is. It is always a pleasure having you 🙂
Tash TheVelvetMoonBaker says
Thanks for linking these up at the Sweet and Savoury Sunday link party. Hope to see you there again tomorrow.
www.thevelvetmoonbaker.blogspot.ie
Shaffer Sisters says
In the past when I have dipped things in chocolate I have had a hard time with over meltiness, do you have any suggestion for that?
Mrs. Diner says
These look like the perfect homemade peanut butter cups! I'd love for you to submit the recipe to my latest Food Holiday Link Party - the theme this week is chocolate! In case you want to link up: http://www.ratetheplateutah.com/2013/02/food-holiday-link-party-chocolate-month.html Thanks!
Shauna {The Best Blog Recipes} says
Thanks for stopping by and inviting me to your link party 🙂 I just linked up... and looks like I barely made it.
I'd love for you to come back over and link up at my weekend link party going on right now too!
Lindsey Domer says
Oh yum! PB cups are my husband's favorite so I will definitely be giving these a try!
Newest follower. 🙂 Hope you follow back at toddlindsey.com!
Shauna {The Best Blog Recipes} says
Thanks Lindsey for the follow. Just popped over to your site and followed you on GFC & FB!
Hope you'll come back this weekend for our Link Party The Weekend re-Treat! We'd love to have you link up a few projects/recipes!
Kathy Shea Mormino says
Thank you for sharing with the Clever Chicks Blog Hop this week; I hope you’ll join us again!
Cheers,
Kathy Shea Mormino
The Chicken Chick
http://www.The-Chicken-Chick.com
Shauna {The Best Blog Recipes} says
Thanks Kathy! I'll definitely be there again next week 🙂
Isabelle Thornton says
So scrumptious. My hubby would love these! You have awesome recipes. Will you link to my linky party?
Xo
Isabelle
www.lechateaudesfleurs.blogspot.com
Shauna {The Best Blog Recipes} says
Thanks for the invite! Just went over and linked up 🙂
Linda had a little lamb says
These look so yummy! I just ate some peanut butter cups today, but I would love to know to make them.
Shauna {The Best Blog Recipes} says
Hope you like them if you decide to make them Linda!
Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment!
Carol TheAnswerIsChocolate says
Hi Shauna, just wanted to let you know I featured these as part of my link party wrap up post just now. YUM!
Shauna {The Best Blog Recipes} says
Thanks for featuring my recipe Carol! I put your button with a link to the featured post on my "where i`ve been featured" page!
Shauna {The Best Blog Recipes} says
Thanks for featuring my recipe Carol! I put your button with a link to the featured post on my "where i`ve been featured" page!
Shauna {The Best Blog Recipes} says
Thanks for featuring my recipe Carol! I put your button with a link to the featured post on my "where i`ve been featured" page!