5.04.2009

#59) Peanut Butter Cups



On my way back to campus for the summer I have stopped in with my family for a week or so.... and this means I have been put back on "real" baking duty. My family, especially my brother, loves sweets!!! In my brother's case - if it is chocolate and peanut butter it is as good as gold.... So for my first family treat I made homemade peanut butter cups. These treats are so much better than the ones you buy in the store! I find the store ones have a filling that is way toooooooo dry so I make my own nice and creamy! Other than that chocolate on the outside these actually fit nicely into my new eating rules so i left a few uncovered LOL. When I made these suckers I only had a dozen muffin liners on hand, so once they were filled I added some rice crispies to the peanut butter mixture and melted some extra chocolate - voila! peanut butter balls... Needless to say my brother was a very happy boy this day :)

Ingredients

1 1/2 cups chopped chocolate (I used milk chocolate)
1 cup + 4 tbsp peanut butter, divided
1/2 cup icing sugar
1 tsp vanilla
pinch of salt

Steps

-Melt chocolate in double boiler. Add 4 tbsp peanut butter. Let cool slightly.
-Add a tsp of melted chocolate to the bottom of each muffin liner. Let harden in fridge.
-Shape peanut butter mixture into patties and place on top of hardened chocolate. Cover entirely in additionally melted chocolate. Let harden in fridge.

*These are best stored in the fridge... they get too soft otherwise.

17 comments:

  1. I've never come across a home-made pnut butter cup - how cool! THanks for sharing and great blog.

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  2. Looks terrific. I have wanted to try these for a while.

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  3. How many did this recipe make?

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  4. kuma - really delicious :)

    scate - they are so much better than the store-bought ones!

    mermaid - u definitely should!!!

    chocolate shavings - u have NO idea :p

    kate - i only had 12 muffin liners, so that's all i made, but i used the rest to make PB balls and i got about 12 of those too :)

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  5. I posted about the same thing on my blog today, but I used a different recipe. (Saw your cups on Tastespotting.)

    Homemade is indeed better.

    Looks great!

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  6. I've never had a homemade peanut butter cup! It looks wonderful

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  7. abby - i am gonna drop by and have a look at yours now.. none of mine are left so i have to drool over the pics now LOL

    tessa - homemade is always better :)

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  8. Those look absolutely dreamy! They wouldn't last 5 minutes around here!

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  9. Ridiculously easy! I'm bookmarking these to make for company in a few weeks. Thanks!

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  10. SGCC - that's about how long they lasted here

    susan - hope u enjoy them as much as we did :)

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  11. it looks like there's something missing in the steps. i'm assuming that after you melt the chocolate and add the 4tbsp of peanut butter, you mix the remaining ingredients together?

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  12. kelley - yes thats right.. sorry about that :)

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  13. I think my husband would pee his pants if I ever made these for him! hahaha

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