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Homemade Peanut Butter Cups

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Homemade peanut butter cups made healthy with real ingredients!

Homemade peanut butter cups with DIY healthy chocolate!

This is about as Halloween-y as I get.

Did someone say weenie?

Moving on; it’s not that I’m above spooky homemade baked goods for Halloween. It’s the homemade part that gets me. I want caramel apple suckers. I want those Butterfinger-Reese’s cup hybrids. I want candy corn (omg not the chocolate kind). I want all the things that don’t come out of my own kitchen this time of year. I’ve got too much respect for mass-produced candy to make my own when we are thisclose to Halloween.

But, when I saw homemade peanut butter cups in Adrianna’s charming new book, The Year of Cozy, I couldn’t resist. I took a quick peek at the yield (9 peanut butter cups), divided that by my usual serving size of peanut butter cups (90), and decided this was the perfect batch of candy for two. Adrianna also has several other small-batch recipes in the book, which just makes my heart smile!

Healthy homemade chocolate peanut butter cups

Her book is a big heart-smile for me because it’s basically how to be a cool girl. She has delicious recipes, easy crafts, and pretty things. She also shares her secrets for being happier and doing more of what you love. I’m going to say it first and hold everyone to it: she’s our generation’s Martha Stewart. After reading her book, you just want to be her because she’s so dang cool. Gosh I love her!

I glanced over the ingredient list for her homemade peanut butter cups, and realized that even the chocolate is homemade. I mean, I know Adrianna is amazing and so of course everything she makes is amazing by default, but the ingredient list made me jump into the kitchen immediately. The homemade chocolate part is similar to my homemade candy bars (that just so happen to be healthy and paleo!).

Adrianna’s recipe did not disappoint! Other delicious things from her book that I’ve made and loved: DIY roomspray, golden milk tea (made with turmeric and ginger), and chewy chai snickerdoodles. Hand to the heavens, those things have been the most delicious part of my week! No, my month! Thanks for that, Adrianna. You da best. xo

Yield: 9

Homemade Peanut Butter Cups

Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 25 minutes

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup creamy all-natural peanut butter
  • 2 tablespoons confectioners' sugar
  • pinch of sea salt
  • 1 cup cocoa powder
  • 1/2 cup coconut oil, melted and warm
  • 1/3 cup maple syrup
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Instructions

  2. Place liners into 9 muffin cups.
  3. In a small bowl, beat together the peanut butter and confectioners' sugar. Add a pinch of salt if the peanut butter is unsalted. Beat until light and fluffy.
  4. In a medium bowl, whisk together the cocoa powder, coconut oil, maple syrup and vanilla extract. Whisk until very smooth.
  5. Spoon 1 tablespoon of the chocolate into each liner. Freeze for 5 minutes.
  6. Add 1-2 small scoops of peanut butter on top of the frozen layer of chocolate.
  7. Top the peanut butter with the remaining chocolate, and place back in the freezer until firm.
  8. Add additional flaky sea salt on top, if you like.
  9. Store in the fridge.

Nutrition Information:

Serving Size:

1
Amount Per Serving:Calories: 2354 Total Fat: 184g Saturated Fat: 108g Sodium: 559mg Carbohydrates: 174g Sugar: 130g Protein: 39g
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Comments

  1. As the proud father of 2 girls and 2 dachshunds, we ALWAYS say Happy Halloweenie around here. Love how you said weenie on your blog. Now that's a blog I can commit too. Ok, PB cups. It's just common knowledge that every mans love language is Peanut Butter. (and we all hate coconut....right?!?) Making this. OK, making my mom make these. Can't promise I'll hand them out for Hallow-weiner.
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  3. I love Adrianna's book and can't WAIT to make these little cups of goodness! I made the 'chorizo' spiced squash soup last week and was looking forward to having the leftovers when I got home from Kansas City. Come to find out, they were GONE when I got home :) Lovely seeing you last week! xo
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  6. I'm not much of a halloweeny person either. I LOVE candy, but I'm just not into the black cats, spider webs, ghosts, and other creepy crawlies. But these? These I can definitely get behind. Love the sea salt on top! I'm wanting to sprinkle it on everything these days.
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  13. hmmmmmm. I've always loved PB cups but I just got this wild ass idea. What about cashew butter or almond butter? Have you ever tried using either? Gotta calculate the possible carbs......
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