Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, peanut butter cups. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Peanut Butter Cups is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Peanut Butter Cups is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
A peanut butter cup is a molded chocolate candy with a peanut butter filling inside. Peanut butter cups are one of the most popular kinds of candy confection in America. They can be made at home, but like most candies, they are commonly mass-produced. DIY Reeses PB Cups Recipe by Cupcake Addiction.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have peanut butter cups using 4 ingredients and 18 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Peanut Butter Cups:
- Prepare 300 grams Milk chocolate
- Make ready 180 grams Peanut butter (unsalted)
- Get 50 grams Graham crackers (whole wheat)
- Get 50 grams Powdered sugar
Everybody's favorite candy for snacks or dessert. Combine chocolate and peanut butter in perfect amounts. Almond Butter Cups: Simply replace the peanut butter with an equal amount of almond butter. This also works with cashew butter, macadamia butter, or sunbutter for a nut-free version.
Steps to make Peanut Butter Cups:
- Crush the chocolate into small pieces.
- Put 1/2 the amount of chocolate into a heat-resistant bowl, then melt in a microwave. Keep a close watch, mixing every few seconds, to make sure it doesn't burn. You can also use a double boiler.
- Fill each paper cup with about 1 tablespoon, and use the back of a spoon to spread it along the inside edges.
- Set the cups on a platter, then chill in the refrigerator until the chocolate hardens to make the chocolate cups. (About 1 hour.)
- Using a food mill, crush graham crackers into a powder, or put the crackers in a sturdy plastic bag and crush with a rolling pin or an empty bottle.
- Put the peanut butter into a heat-resistant bowl and microwave for a few seconds until soft. Be careful not to heat it for too long or it will get runny.
- Add the powdered sugar and crackers and mix well. If using unsalted peanut butter, add a pinch of salt.
- Put a spoonful of peanut butter into each chocolate cup. Leave enough room at the top to seal with chocolate.
- Return the platter to the refrigerator to chill until the peanut butter hardens. It doesn't have to be brittle, when it looks like the peanut butter has set, it's done.
- Melt the remaining 1/2 of the chocolate and cover each cup. Use the back of a spoon to evenly spread the chocolate, taking care not to leave gaps.
- Chill in the refrigerator again to harden. Leave for at least one hour, or overnight if possible, to let the flavor of the peanut butter insides blend.
- Peel the paper off carefully to keep the shape of the corrugated sides intact, then they're done! Enjoy the nice combination of chocolate and peanut butter!
- When I don't have enough chocolate, I use a type that melts easily. Reese's uses milk chocolate, so that's the basic recipe, but feel free to use bitter chocolate.
- I use Skippy Creamy Peanut Butter. It's essential to use salted peanut butter. Use the crunchy type, if you like.
- If you don't have graham (whole wheat) crackers, you can use Bran crackers that have wheat germ. I recommend plain.
- The powdered sugar gives a silky texture. You can also transform granulated sugar into powdered sugar by processing it in a food mill!
- Variation: I melted white chocolate into the leftover 1/2 batch of chocolate and decorated the tops with different colored chocolate.
- If you prefer, you can reduce the amount of peanut butter from 250 g to 180 g. You can also reduce the amount of graham crackers and sugar each from 60 g to 50 g.
Almond Butter Cups: Simply replace the peanut butter with an equal amount of almond butter. This also works with cashew butter, macadamia butter, or sunbutter for a nut-free version. I made mini peanut butter cups. They tasted good but I think I am a recees fan. I didn't us any paper muffin cups and realized it.
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