Peanut Butter Cups
If you think you can’t make your own peanut butter cups at home that are better than Reese’s, think again. These peanut butter cups turn out picture perfect with their zigzag sides and they’re surprisingly easy to make.
I’m not going to lie, they are a little bit time consuming if you’re the impatient type. You have to melt chocolate, tempering it along the way. You have to do this with any confection you’re going to coat with chocolate, including these Homemade Turtles. If you would like to see my video on how to temper chocolate, click HERE. I hope that word didn’t scare you, tempering. If it did don’t worry–it’s easy to do!
To see the video for these peanut butter cups, click HERE.
Then you have to brush the chocolate into the paper cups, let it harden. You fill these with the peanut butter mixture, then you have to brush more melted chocolate on their tops. It’s a bit of a process, but totally worth it. I hope you’ll give these a try–and if you do, let me know how they turned out for you!
Peanut Butter Cups
Ingredients
- 238 grams semisweet or milk chocolate chopped PLUS another 32 grams for tops
Filling
- 1 cup peanut butter
- 1 cup icing sugar
- 1/2 cup skim milk powder or regular milk powder
- 3 tablespoons water
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Temper 238 grams of chocolate by melting two-thirds of it, then seeding with other third. (See video)
- Brush tempered chocolate into 20-25 paper cups (1 inch each). Set leftover chocolate aside.
- While cups harden, make filling by combining all remaining ingredients. Mix until smooth.
- Fill each cup, leaving a slight lip.
- Remelt the leftover chocolate from cups, then remove from heat and seed with 32 grams chocolate.
- Brush this on tops of cups. Allow to harden completely, about 45 minutes.
- Remove papers, if desired.