Raise your hand if you like Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. I sure do! As far as I’m concerned, peanut butter and chocolate is one of the most perfect food combinations. When I was growing up, my dad often made homemade peanut butter cups with us. We always made some with white chocolate, some with semisweet, and some with milk. A few weeks ago, while I was still recovering from the birth, I decided that Mr. Handsome and I needed a treat, so I whipped up a batch, using semisweet chocolate chips. They were delicious, as expected. Here’s the recipe:
Homemade Peanut Butter Cups
Ingredients
- 1-1/3 cup chocolate chips
- 3 Tbvsp peanut butter
- 3 tsp powdered sugar
Instructions
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Melt 2/3 cup chocolate chips on the stove (low heat and stir constantly) or in the microwave. For details on how to melt chocolate in the microwave, see my chocolate covered strawberry tutorial: https://nashvillewife.com/chocolate-covered-strawberry-tutorial/
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Place muffin liners in muffin tins, and fill 1/3 of the way with melted chocolate.
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Place muffin pan in freezer for 20 minutes, or until chocolate is set.
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Meanwhile, whip peanut butter and sugar with a fork until smooth.
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Melt remaining 2/3 cup chocolate chips. Place a spoonful of peanut butter in the center of each muffin liner.
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Top with melted chocolate so peanut butter is fully covered.
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Freeze until chocolate is firm (at least 2-3 hours).
Recipe Notes
Makes approximately 6 large (regular sized muffin pans) peanut butter cups. For bite-sized peanut putter cups, use mini muffin pans.
Add some rice krispies into the peanut butter mix and a little crunch makes a difference!
Sounds delicious, Alicia!
Those look yummy! Thanks for sharing the recipe!!!
These look so good! I also like chocolate and peanut butter together, so I’ll have to try this recipe… Jane
My youngest daughter likes to make homemade peanut butter cups. They are so good too.
I can’t wait to try this recipe. Do you think it will work w/o the sugar?
It should work just fine without the sugar. The sugar just gives the peanut butter a little sweetness, to make it more of a treat. Let me know how they turn out for you, Alexandra!
Why would you need to make homemade peanut butter cups when they sell them everywhere? I don’t think there would be fewer ingredients in the homemade version because you are adding chocolate chips, with their ingredients, and peanut butter, with its ingredients. Are you saving any money this way? Peanut butter cups will be on sale between now and Easter anyway.
These taste much better than store bought. And using the more natural chocolate chips and peanut butter that I buy, they definitely have fewer ingredients.
Have a wonderful day,
Ellie
Um have you ever read the ingredients of a Reese’s cup? Homemade ones have waaaay less ingredients.
The price would be comparable if buying high quality ingredients. Normal store bought peanut cups have lots of preservatives and artificial ingredients. I personally like to avoid those. Great simple recipe. Thanks for sharing!
Is the milk supposed to act as a healthier substitute of a sweetener (chocolate)? I’m curious as I’ve never heard of that before.
I love chocolate and peanut butter. I am definitely going to have to make this. It sounds very simple to make but also very tasty. I would have to like triple the recipe. Thanks for the recipe.
One part of me screams, ‘YES’!!!!
While another part of me yells, ‘NO’!!!!
:-)(-:
white chocolate reeses are my favorite candy! it’ll be hard to wait the 2 to 3 hours till it freezes
2-3 hours?! It must be something in the peanut butter blend that makes it take that long. I’ve always just done melted chocolate layered with peanut butter and it has never taken that long lol. This recipe looks yummy though.
These look delicious! Unfortunately, it’s been years since I had a peanut butter cup – they are no longer welcome in my house since one of our kids is allergic to peanut. But when she moves out in about 15 years, I’ll have to try these!
I know some people very allergic to peanuts as well that enjoy almond butter as an alternative…that could be an interesting twist on this recipe.
Or you could use sunflower seed butter. 😊since it’s a seed, not a nut.
Peanuts are actually not a nut, but a legume. and most people who are allergic to peanuts are actually not allergic to tree nuts. However many people assume that if there is a peanut allergy then its best to stay away from all nuts which is not the case in reality.
Can you not just buy them for yourself?
@ 8:21 – I could, but I choose not to. Simply giving my child a kiss after eating anything peanut or peanut butter could be enough to cause a reaction. So I give up all things peanut in order to keep her safe.
Lauren, take her to the doc in South Carolina close to the GA line. He has healed lots and lots of people and children of their allergies. Bad allergies. Allergies where you can’t hardly eat anything and they get healed. We are seeing it in our circles. Modern day miracles!!! I just don’t remember his name or the clinic but if you get back with me, I could easily find out.
Thanks for the recommendation. We actually are patients at one of the top food allergy and asthma clinics in the country. We are quite happy with the care we receive.
Please tell me the name of the doctor as I have been diagnosed with over 35 food allergies and one of my daughters has been diagnosed with almost as many.
Ok here’s the info:
Trinity Allergy Relief and Wellness Center
2315 N Main St
Suite 118
Anderson, South Carolina
29621
864-760-1006
It truly is an amazing place. It healed a man and his toddler we know. The man just about died, he was so bad and couldn’t hardly eat anything and his little daughter was the same way-no gluten anything, etc and etc. This place healed them and they can literally eat anything today. They work with the body’s electrical system and totally change it around. It is more of a natural minded place than medical so you have to keep an open mind when you go there but it is truly helping many many people. Hope this helps you!!!
I have the same problem as the last commenter, while these looks delicious, both of my boys have a peanut allergy. I wonder if using SunButter would work? I might have to try that version. Thanks for the recipe.
I would try sunbutter, cashew butter or almond butter. You may need to add more sugar depending on sweetness preferences.
This is just what I got from a non professional person. Someone told me peanuts are like mops or sponges in the soil and they take all and anything out of the soil. So that’s why peanut allergies are increasing, people reacte to all the not good stuff now in the peanuts. So maybe organic peanut butter is better.
Science has yet to offer a solid reason why there are increases in food allergies (not just peanut). However, my peanut-allergic kid is part of a study that is working to develop a vaccine to prevent / cure peanut allergies. Modern medicine is AMAZING!
I have read that there is aluminum in vaccines, some people say there is mercury in them, that liquid base in a vaccine is not just innocent non toxic, non noxious stuff. The whole vaccine industry would just love to make more big money convincing people that they need yet another vaccine. And they like good sales spokes people to convince others to get it.
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vacgen/additives.htm
Reference Materials
Vaccine ingredients sorted by vaccine[3 pages]
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbook/downloads/appendices/B/excipient-table-2.pdf.S. Vaccine excipients (inactive substance used as a carrier for the active ingredients of a medication) and media summary, part 2 from the “Pink Book” https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbook/index.html
Common substances found in vaccines include:
Aluminum gels or salts of aluminum which are added as adjuvants to help the vaccine stimulate a better response. Adjuvants help promote an earlier, more potent response, and more persistent immune response to the vaccine.
Antibiotics which are added to some vaccines to prevent the growth of germs (bacteria) during production and storage of the vaccine. No vaccine produced in the United States contains penicillin.
Egg protein is found in yellow fever and most influenza vaccines, which are prepared using chicken eggs. Ordinarily, persons who are able to eat eggs or egg products safely can receive these vaccines.
Formaldehyde is used to inactivate bacterial products for toxoid vaccines, (these are vaccines that use an inactive bacterial toxin to produce immunity.) It is also used to kill unwanted viruses and bacteria that might contaminate the vaccine during production. Most formaldehyde is removed from the vaccine before it is packaged.
Monosodium glutamate (MSG) and 2-phenoxy-ethanol which are used as stabilizers in a few vaccines to help the vaccine remain unchanged when the vaccine is exposed to heat, light, acidity, or humidity.
Thimerosal is a mercury-containing preservative that is added to vials of vaccine that contain more than one dose to prevent contamination and growth of potentially harmful bacteria.
Source:
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/additives.htm
@7:10 – allow me to explain why i am excited about the possibility of a vaccine to cure peanut allergies.
My family pays for Private schooling because most public schools no longer have nurses. I do not trust a secretary to correctly identify the situation and administer her epi-pen in a LIFE OR DEATH situation. I actually had a secretary once tell me she hoped she never had to use the epi pen because “I don’t think I could do that to her”. I pulled her out of that school within 10 minutes. She never can have a sleepover at a friends house. I have to take her epis to her Sunday school class every week and make sure the teachers are comfortable with how to use them. Grocery shopping is an hours long process because every label gets read. Every. Time. She can never have cake at a birthday party unless I have made it because bakeries are not peanut safe. Airplanes are terrifying. And as if all that isn’t enough reason to want better for my child, every time I need a new box of epi-pens (2 pens – enough for one reaction), it costs me anywhere from $300-$500 dollars. Most insurances don’t cover the medicine and pharmacutical companies know they can make a ton of money.
Finally, the trial we are in isn’t even in the human phase yet. She could be 18 before it gets that far due to FDA requirements. So next time you try to judge parents for being excited about something that could help/save their child, put yourself in their shoes!
Most bakeries are peanut save. You just have to tell them and they will make it peanut free.
7:10 Just wait til you have a family member seriously ill from measles, diptheria, typhoid, tetauns, pertussis, polio, or any other disease for which there is a vaccine these days. There’s a reason those vaccines were developed and it wasn’t just to make money. It was to save lives. If you don’t vaccinate your children then they can become the carriers for those diseases and spread them to other unvaccinated children or the very young, under-vaccinated ones. Do you want to take the responsibility for that, someone’s child falling ill, because you won’t vaccinate? Risk v. benefit, and benefit wins.
2:44: if your child is vaccinated then there is no need to get onto the ones that don’t vaccinate. Supposedly your child is protected anyway so…🤷♀️
There are actually very serious risks for vaccines (some more than others). I’m grateful for some vaccines and they have their place, but it should absolutely be a personal choice, never pressured. When there is a risk, it’s very wrong to mandate that people MUST take that risk.
Some illnesses from which children are routinely vaccinated are not even usually serious. Personally, I’d rather take the risk of dealing with the illness than to inject my kids with formaldehyde, aluminum, and other known harmful toxins. For instance: I’ve survived chicken pox and so have my husband and 4 kids without too much trouble. And natural immunity requires no booster shots! If someone else wants to vaccinate for chicken pox, I’m glad they have that option. But it MUST be a personal choice.
The allergy is to the protein – so I’m not sure why “organic” peanuts would be better. Allergists tell you to avoid ALL peanut, not just non-organic.
I get what OP is saying, although there are probably some people who are allergic to the actual peanuts and some who are allergic to the pesticides. For example, we thought my younger sister was allergic to strawberries for a few years, and later learned she was allergic to the pesticides that strawberries absorb since they have such thin skin. She can have organic strawberries that don’t have pesticides on them with no problems.
This seems like too much work and not any healthier than store bought. It’s still fatty peanut butter, chocolate, and sugar, whether it’s “natural” or not. If a person is concerned about not eating preservatives, it seems odd to think homemade peanut butter cups are a healthy alternative. It’s still a chocolate-covered peanut butter cup.
Thank you for sharing. Hope to try this soon!
These look good but they are not necessarily high in nutrients that are needed. It might be better to boil some eggs and make devilled eggs or egg salad and make a sanck of that. The egg yolks are a source of choline which is sort of hard to get enough of. I would be interested in learning more about nutrient deficiencies that are common in people and pregnant and lactating women and what snacks would support getting these nutrients rather than pleasuring ones self with empty calories. This is hard to do. My personal self indulgence and dreamy desire is for layer cake with icing.
Thank you
They look yummy
I shall make them soon
Hope you and Master H j are doing well
Syll
We are doing very well! He had been sleeping well this week (except for Tuesday night) and having longer periods each day where he is awake and happy. Hope you have a wonderful day, Syll!
Ellie