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Creamy Home-made Mini Peanut Butter Cups
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Creamy Home-made Mini Peanut Butter Cups

We couldn’t wait to bite into a luscious, thick layered chocolate cups loaded with creamy peanut butter filling. The best chocolate peanut butter explosions ever!
Prep Time15 minutes
Total Time20 minutes
Course: Dessert, Snack
Cuisine: American
Diet: Diabetic, Gluten Free, Vegan
Keyword: candy bars, chocolate, dairy-free, no bake, peanut butter, peanut butter cups, reeses, vegan
Servings: 24 Servings
Calories:
Author: Kim Lange

Ingredients

Peanut Butter Filling:

  • ½ cup creamy peanut butter if you’re nut allergic you can substitute Sunbutter or your seed butter of choice.
  • 4 tablespoons unsalted butter or vegan butter softened
  • ½ cup confectioners' sugar or vegan & sugar-free options use sugar-free confectioners' sugar like Lakanto

Chocolate Coating:

  • 2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips or dairy free semi sweet chocolate chips We used Enjoy Life Chocolate Chunks for vegan or sugar-free options!
  • ½ cup creamy peanut butter

Instructions

  • ine a mini muffin tin with 24 mini candy liners.
  • In a small bowl, using mixer, beat together the peanut butter, butter and confectioners' sugar to get a creamy peanut butter consistency for the filling. There should not be any lumps and smooth looking. Set aside.
  • Put your chocolate chips or chunks and 1/2 cup peanut butter in a microwave safe bowl. Microwave the chocolate for one minute, stir, and continue to cook in 30 second increments after the first round until it’s melted and smooth. (Usually takes 1 & 1/2 minutes in mine, but stir well to continue melting chocolate between each time increment as the chocolate is tempering.
  • Drop about a teaspoon of chocolate into your candy liners. Then place some peanut butter in the middle of the chocolate, very gently pushing it down on top of the chocolate, but keeping from the sides of the liner. Then add another thick layer of chocolate on top to cover the peanut butter. The mixture should fill the liner to the top. Add peanuts on top and drizzle some more chocolate on top if you like!
  • Place PB Cups in the fridge and let them set completely before serving (about two hours depending on your fridge temp). Store in an airtight container in the fridge or freeze. Makes 24 with Vegan & Sugar-Free Options YUM!

Notes

These are gluten-free, but you can make these vegan, Keto/sugar-free easily.  Enjoy!!