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Homemade Peanut Butter Cups

January 19, 2015 By Kerry Cooks 9 Comments

These Homemade Peanut Butter Cups are so easy to make! Customise them with your favourite type of chocolate and toppings – and yes, they’re way better than Reese’s!

I tried making my own peanut butter cups - these are crazy good!

I tried making my own peanut butter cups - these are crazy good!

Ooh you can make your own peanut butter cups, with no scary ingredients like Reese's!

 You need to make these! They’re so ridiculously easy to make and they’re sooo addictively good! I gifted most of the batch I made to some friends who just raved about them. Prepare to amaze (you really made these yourself?!) and impress everyone with these!

SO you can make peanut butter cups at home and they’re totally easy and way better than the factory made stuff, just like homemade nutella! What do we even need these big corporations for?

I know I say everything is easy to make, but really, we’re talking a no-bake, four ingredient recipe here. If you can operate a microwave and hold a spoon, you can make these! All we need to put together these Homemade Peanut Butter Cups: peanut butter, chocolate, icing sugar, and butter. Simply melt a couple of tablespoons of butter, stir it into your peanut butter, add icing sugar to taste, and enclose that deliciousness between layers of chocolate.

So simple, and they’d be great fun for kids to try their hand at making too. I couldn’t resist trying out some different things when I was topping my cups – sea salt, salted pretzels, and plain. These would be so cute with some heart shaped sprinkles for Valentine’s Day too.

You can make these homemade peanut butter cups with crunchy peanut butter or smooth, or even make a mixture! If there’s a particular type of chocolate you love, use that – these would be divine with really good dark chocolate. I also love that you can adjust the sweetness in these peanut butter cups to your taste – you could even use straight peanut butter with no added sugar, or just add a little touch of honey, maple syrup or agarve instead.

Okay so if you’re thinking, but why would I bother making these when Reese’s peanut butter cups are incredibly tasty? Well, these taste like a million times better (sorry Reese’s!). Good quality chocolate, a less sickly peanut butter filling and a pinch of sea salt make them a delicious artisan like treat rather than mass-market candy. Enjoyed as a treat, they’re the sort of thing I feel good eating since I know exactly what went into them – just four natural ingredients (and no scary sounding stuff!).

Homemade Peanut Butter Cups
2015-01-16 16:16:28
Yields 12
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Prep Time
20 min
Prep Time
20 min
310 calories
33 g
6 g
18 g
5 g
8 g
59 g
25 g
26 g
0 g
6 g
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size
59g
Yields
12
Amount Per Serving
Calories 310
Calories from Fat 160
% Daily Value *
Total Fat 18g
28%
Saturated Fat 8g
42%
Trans Fat 0g
Polyunsaturated Fat 2g
Monounsaturated Fat 4g
Cholesterol 6mg
2%
Sodium 25mg
1%
Total Carbohydrates 33g
11%
Dietary Fiber 3g
13%
Sugars 26g
Protein 5g
Vitamin A
2%
Vitamin C
0%
Calcium
2%
Iron
7%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your Daily Values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
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Ingredients
  1. 140g / 1/2 cup plus 1 tbsp smooth peanut butter
  2. 2 tbsp unsalted butter
  3. 60g / 1/2 cup icing sugar
  4. 450g / 15 ounces plain chocolate
  5. 1 tsp vanilla bean paste
  6. coarse sea salt
  7. salted pretzels
Instructions
  1. To start, prepare a 12 hole muffin tin with small (fairy cake sized) liners. The ones I used were about 2 inches across.
  2. Next, make your peanut butter mixture. Melt your butter in a large heatproof bowl in the microwave, and then stir in the peanut butter until it's incorporated. Add vanilla bean paste and a pinch of salt, and then begin adding icing sugar a tablespoon full at a time (60g is four tablespoons) until you're happy with the level of sweetness - there's no need to add it all. If you want your filling a little more salty/sweet, add more salt to taste at this point too, then pop your peanut butter mixture into the fridge.
  3. Next, melt your chocolate in the microwave on 30 second intervals, stirring well after each burst. Using a teaspoon, spoon a heaped spoonfull of chocolate into the bottom of each cupcake case. Set aside for five minutes.
  4. Next, spoon 2 teaspoonfulls of the peanut butter mixture into the centre of the chocolate (as best you can, don't worry if it slides around a bit!). Then, top each peanut butter cup with another heaped teaspoonfull of the melted chocolate.
  5. What happens here (and you can use your spoon to gently guide it) is that the warm chocolate melts the peanut butter mixture a little, which helps it to flatten and take on the traditional peanut butter cup shape! Use your spoon to also guide the chocolate to cover up any gaps in your cup.
  6. Once you've done all your cups, take the tray and carefully bang/rap it on your kitchen counter to help the cups level out even more. Finally, top with maldon sea salt, salted pretzels, or whatever you like! Leave to set in the fridge or a cool place. Store in a sealed container in the fridge for up to a week (haha, right).
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Kerry Cooks https://kerrycooks.com/
Ooh you can make your own peanut butter cups, with no scary ingredients like Reese's

How good would these be with a dollop of jelly/jam too?!

I can't believe how easy this was - make your own peanut butter cups at home!

 There are so many different things you could do with these cups – what about peanut butter and jam? Or cookie dough cups? The possibilities are endless! 

x Kerry

 

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  1. Choclette says

    July 7, 2015 at 3:08 pm

    You read my mind. I’ve just made some. A slightly different method and recipe to you, but essentially the same. I’ve made them as a treat for my birthday tomorrow, but I couldn’t help myself but try one – oh my!

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    • Kerry Cooks says

      July 8, 2015 at 3:20 pm

      I bet – any combo of peanut butter and chocolate is Soooo good!

      Reply
  2. Amanda says

    January 20, 2015 at 9:23 pm

    These look delicious! So fun!
    Amanda recently posted…peanut butter brownie caramelitasMy Profile

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    • Kerry Cooks says

      January 20, 2015 at 9:55 pm

      Thank you Amanda!

      Reply
  3. Holly says

    January 19, 2015 at 10:13 am

    Wow, amazing! I am so going to have a crack at these!!

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    • Kerry Cooks says

      January 19, 2015 at 8:37 pm

      Hope you like them!

      Reply
  4. The Mummy Diary says

    January 19, 2015 at 9:54 am

    I have been meaning to give these a try for a while now, they look so scrummy ๐Ÿ™‚
    The Mummy Diary recently posted…Cold Inner City Farm FunMy Profile

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    • Kerry Cooks says

      January 19, 2015 at 10:09 am

      Thanks lady! They’re not sugar – free but they would be super fun to make with kids! And I do think with using good quality chocolate, you end up eating less ๐Ÿ™‚

      Reply

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