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    Home » Favorite Flavors & Ingredients » Peanut Butter

    Homemade Chocolate Peanut Butter Eggs

    Published: Apr 18, 2014 · by Kim Lange · This post may contain affiliate links ·

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     Dear Easter Bunny,  

    I know what I want for Easter and it's these luxurious Homemade Chocolate Peanut Butter Eggs piled really, really, really high! We can't resist chocolate covered peanut butter eggs or these 20 Amazing Easter Brunch Desserts You'll Rise For, when it comes to Easter celebrating! 

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    Have You Ever Had Homemade Chocolate Peanut Butter Eggs? 

    It only takes 6 ingredients to make these copycat Reese's Peanut Butter Eggs to make these delicious treats with ingredients you have most likely in your kitchen!  It's simply Reese's Peanut butter cups in the shape of eggs that you can make yourself and guess what?  They taste better homemade!

    Woot-Woot!   These cute eggs are quite appropriate for all your Easter festivities!

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    When your kid say they are bored...here you go! These Homemade Peanut Butter Chocolate Eggs would be fun for them to make. 

    Make them to put in their Easter baskets, parties or does there really have to be a real reason?  We are not even going there, it's obvious we love chocolate and peanut butter candy treats! 

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    Ingredients You Need for Copycat Reese's Peanut Butter Eggs

    • creamy peanut butter, I used Jif
    • unsalted butter, melted
    • brown sugar
    • powdered sugar 
    • salt

    Chocolate Shell

    • milk chocolate chips
    • semi-sweet chocolate chips
    • vegetable shortening or coconut oil

    How to Make Homemade Peanut Butter Chocolate Easter Eggs 

    1. Line a baking sheet with wax paper and set aside.

    Microwave Method - Peanut Butter Egg Filling

    1. Melt butter and brown sugar together. Once melted add peanut butter and salt and mix. Add the powdered sugar a little at a time, stirring until completely combined with the peanut butter mixture. Transfer to a parchment lined baking sheet or pan.

    Stovetop Method - Peanut Butter Egg filling

    1. In a medium saucepan over medium heat, combine the peanut butter, butter, and brown sugar and salt and heat until thoroughly melted stirring constantly until just melted together. Add the powdered sugar a little at a time, stirring until completely combined with the peanut butter mixture. Transfer to a parchment lined baking sheet or pan.

    2 Options to Molding Eggs

    1. Option 1: Press or roll out your peanut butter dough about ½ inch thick and use an egg or round cookie cutter and cut out your eggs.  If using a round cookie cutter, just smush the top and bottom of the circle together to resemble an egg. Place eggs on the baking sheet and refrigerate the peanut butter eggs to allow them to set for about 30 minutes.  Continue making eggs with leftover dough until you've used it all up.  If you're in a hurry, you could place them in the freeze for 5-10 minutes.  
    2. Option 2: Using a tablespoon ice cream scoop or a heaping tablespoon, scoop out peanut butter mixture and shape into eggs. Place eggs on the baking sheet and refrigerate the peanut butter eggs to allow them to set for about 30 minutes. Continue making eggs with leftover dough until you've used it all up. If you're in a hurry, you could place them in the freeze for 5 - 10 minutes.  

    Melting and Dipping Chocolate Eggs

    1. Once the eggs are set and firmed up enough to melt, melt the chocolate chips and shortening together in the microwave in 30-second increments, stirring after each, until completely melted, approximately 2 minutes or so.
    2. Use a long-tined fork to flip each peanut butter egg when dipping it in melted chocolate to cover, letting excess chocolate drip off and place on waxed paper.   Add an extra spoonful of chocolate to the top to give it some extra chocolate on top, but don't go overboard.  Decorate the eggs however you like. Sprinkles are always good!
    3. Return the chocolate-covered peanut butter eggs to the refrigerator to allow the chocolate to set, about 30 minutes.
    4. Store in the refrigerator in an airtight container until ready to serve.

    Peanut Butter Egg Tips

    • When you melt butter, if it's too hot, then the dough will be too hot and too hard to handle when you're making the peanut butter filling. Let it cool down.  If you've already added all your ingredients and it's still too hot, because you missed the too hot to handle tip, then just let it cool down before trying to make cut out or mold shapes.
    • Depending on the thickness of your peanut butter, you may need less or more powdered sugar for your homemade peanut butter chocolate eggs.  Start out with 1 ½ cups and add more if needed.  The peanut butter egg filling should resemble a cookie dough you would make cut out cookies with.
    • If you add too much powdered sugar to the peanut butter filling, the eggs won't be a creamy peanut butter center.  By not adding enough powdered sugar, the peanut butter filling will not firm up enough when you dip the eggs.
    • Rolling the peanut butter dough out makes the eggs look better, however you might prefer a more rounded one that you can mold with your hands or use a cookie scoop and mold them.  I have done them both ways, and using a cookie cutter is easier, in my opinion.

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    These Easter Peanut Butter Candy Eggs are over the top amazing and full of peanut butter and chocolate yumminess! Homemade easter eggs are the best!

    Easter peanut butter eggsWant more Homemade Easter Delights incorporated in your Easter Holiday?

    • M&M® Easter Egg Chocolate Bark 
    • M&M Easter Egg Marshmallow Fudge Brownies 
    • Creamy Home-made Mini Peanut Butter Cups
    • 45 Awesome Easter & Spring Desserts
    • Easter Bunny Peep Cupcakes
    • Easter Egg Sugar Cookies
    • Cute Easter Bunny Sugar Cookies

    Happy Easter to all my Chicklets and Peeps!  Love you all!

    Home-Made Chocolate Peanut Butter Eggs

    Home-made Chocolate Peanut Butter Eggs

    Kim Lange
    Reese's Peanut Butter Cup copy-cat recipe!  Yum!!!
    4.62 from 13 votes
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    Prep Time 10 mins
    Course Dessert
    Servings 18 Servings
    Calories

    Ingredients
     
     

    • 1 cup creamy peanut butter I used Jif
    • ¼ cup unsalted butter melted
    • ¼ cup light brown sugar
    • 1 ½ cups powdered sugar (add more if needed)
    • dash salt, optional

    Chocolate Shell

    • 1 cup milk chocolate chips
    • 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
    • 2 tablespoons vegetable shortening or coconut oil
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    Instructions
     

    • Line a baking sheet with wax paper and set aside.

    Microwave Method - Peanut Butter Egg Filling

    • Melt butter and brown sugar together. Once melted add peanut butter and salt and mix. Add the powdered sugar a little at a time, stirring until completely combined with the peanut butter mixture. Transfer to a parchment lined baking sheet or pan.

    Stovetop Method - Peanut Butter Egg Filling

    • In a medium saucepan over medium heat, combine the peanut butter, butter, and brown sugar and salt and heat until thoroughly melted stirring constantly until just melted together. Add the powdered sugar a little at a time, stirring until completely combined with the peanut butter mixture. Transfer to a parchment lined baking sheet or pan.

    2 Options to Molding Eggs

    • Option 1: Press or roll out your peanut butter dough about ½ inch thick and use an egg or round cookie cutter and cut out your eggs.  If using a round cookie cutter, just smush the top and bottom of the circle together to resemble an egg. Place eggs on the baking sheet and refrigerate the peanut butter eggs to allow them to set for about 30 minutes.  If you're in a hurry, you could place them in the freeze for 5 - 10 minutes.  
    • Option 2: Using a tablespoon ice cream scoop or a heaping tablespoon, scoop out peanut butter mixture and shape into eggs. Place eggs on the baking sheet and refrigerate the peanut butter eggs to allow them to set for about 30 minutes. If you're in a hurry, you could place them in the freeze for 5 - 10 minutes.  

    Melting and Dipping Chocolate Eggs

    • Once the eggs are set, melt the chocolate chips and shortening together in the microwave in 30-second increments, stirring after each, until completely melted, approximately 2 minutes or so.
    • Use a long-tined fork to flip each peanut butter egg when dipping it in melted chocolate to cover, letting excess chocolate drip off and place on waxed paper.   Add an extra spoonful of chocolate to the top to give it some extra chocolate on top, but don't go overboard.  Decorate the eggs however you like. Sprinkles are always good!
    • Return the chocolate-covered peanut butter eggs to the refrigerator to allow the chocolate to set, about 30 minutes.
    • Store in the refrigerator in an airtight container until ready to serve.

    Notes

    Depending on the thickness of your peanut butter, you may need less or more powdered sugar.  Start out with 1 ½ cups and add more if needed.  Should resemble a cookie dough you would make cut out cookies with.
    Keyword candy, chocolate, peanut butter, truffles
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    1. Kim Lange says

      April 11, 2020 at 5:53 pm

      Yes probably too warm, let it cool down before rolling it out and add more powdered sugar if you need to, if it's not getting firmer. Hope that helps!

    2. Jane says

      April 11, 2020 at 5:39 pm

      My mixture doesnt seem firm enough to shape or roll out...too warm maybe?

    3. Kim Lange says

      April 11, 2020 at 12:34 pm

      Yes you could do that or any chocolate bar you might have that you can melt down will work as well, and follow the directions of the almond bark for melting. Enjoy!

    4. Malinda G Richard says

      April 11, 2020 at 12:16 pm

      Do you think it's possible to
      dip them in chocolate almond bark? Sadly, I don't have chocolate chips!

    5. Kim Lange says

      April 05, 2020 at 8:07 am

      Yes you can use any chocolate you would like. Enjoy!!

    6. Joyce Valley says

      April 04, 2020 at 2:14 pm

      Can I use milk chocolate morsels rather than semi sweet for shell.. if not, I need to get semi sweet too!

    7. Kim Lange says

      March 20, 2020 at 4:19 pm

      Very easy and so much better being homemade! Thanks Christie!

    8. Christie says

      March 20, 2020 at 3:40 pm

      They look so amazing! I need to try this!

    9. Kim Lange says

      February 20, 2020 at 11:09 am

      Exactly! They are so yummy and delicious! Fun to do on a weekend and you can even add some sprinkles on top to make them look extra cute! Thank you Kelly! xo

    10. Kelly @ Kelly Lynns Sweets and Treats says

      February 20, 2020 at 10:29 am

      The best peanut butter cups are the egg ones in my opinion!! I sooooo want to devour all of these!! Pinning!

    11. Kim Lange says

      April 20, 2019 at 10:23 am

      They are addicting, so great idea making another batch right? I'm curious to see how they turn out! YUM! Thank you Cathy!

    12. Cathy Roads says

      April 20, 2019 at 10:02 am

      I am making these today. It only took about 1 cup of powdered sugar for the mix. Heres what I am doing. I lightly sprayed plastic easter eggs and then filled them and closed them shut. I am freezing them now. I plan on either slicing them in half or even leave a couple of wholes ones. I was hesitant about this recipe but I can say it tastes like the real Reese's cups as I was eating while I was stuffing the eggs......Oh, so good. Thanks sooooo much for this great recipe... Oh and by the way I am already making another batch. I got 8 eggs out of one batch.

    13. Mishkeezay says

      April 18, 2019 at 9:41 am

      These look Yummilicious ??

    14. ChocolaTess says

      May 14, 2018 at 8:30 am

      Hi Davey,
      You can get a cookie cutter on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=egg+shaped+cookie+cutters&tag=googhydr-20&index=aps&hvadid=176978092309&hvpos=1t1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=5428154596151055785&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=e&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9016258&hvtargid=kwd-6044240185&ref=pd_sl_19baongfdj_e

      Walmart has them, as well as others. Just do a search "egg shaped cookie cutter" and a bunch will show up you can order online or go pick up at a store. Hope that helps and I don't blame you, these are my favorite Easter treats too! 🙂

    15. Davey says

      May 14, 2018 at 1:45 am

      Finding an egg shaped cookie cutter has been the biggest impediment to me reshaping a round one doesn't work I tried three times please help these are my favorite easter treats

    16. ChocolaTess says

      January 02, 2018 at 5:59 pm

      Thank you so much Laura! These are super yummy and yes you know what goes in them! 🙂

    17. Laura says

      January 02, 2018 at 5:34 pm

      These look great! Probably better for you too in that you know what goes in them.

    18. ChocolaTess says

      April 07, 2017 at 11:17 pm

      Well everyone will love them!! Enjoy Ann!

    19. ChocolaTess says

      April 07, 2017 at 11:15 pm

      Eric thank you! That is a great idea! I am going to have to try that sometime! Thanks for sharing!

    20. Ann Brown says

      April 07, 2017 at 3:04 pm

      Well I can see what my Easter baskets will be full of, a lot of chocolate and peanut butter fans in my house.

    21. eric windon says

      April 06, 2017 at 5:21 pm

      I found using a half of a plastic Easter egg ,( the ones you decorate with ) makes the perfect egg shape and by the way my wife and I loved these

    22. ChocolaTess says

      March 28, 2017 at 7:41 pm

      Yup...been there done that Kelly!! hehe

    23. Kelly @ Kelly Lynns Sweets and Treats says

      March 28, 2017 at 8:17 am

      Mmmm. These look way more amazing than anything you can buy!! I'm afraid I would eat them all if I made them hehehehe 🙂 xoxo

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