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Homemade Peanut Butter Cups

By Rebecca Swanner | February 13, 2019 | Updated on July 16, 2024 | 8 Comments
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Homemade Reese's Peanut Butter Cups Recipe

Homemade Peanut Butter Cups are one of the fastest, easiest candy recipes you can make. All you need are three ingredients: peanut butter, coconut oil, and your favorite high-quality chocolate. And love. That’s not an ingredient. We just weren’t hugged enough as a kid.

Homemade Reese's Peanut Butter Cups Recipe

Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups are easily one of my favorite candies. Unwrapping individually-packaged peanut butter cup after peanut butter cup until there was a veritable mountain of discarded orange and black wrappers was my post-Halloween ritual.

What I didn’t realize, until a few weeks ago is that chocolate peanut butter cups are so simple to make at home. No one seems to have invented an Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind machine so I can forget this, so I’m doing the next best thing: sharing this peanut butter cup recipe with you!

Homemade Reese's Peanut Butter Cups Recipe

How to Make Peanut Butter Cups

Start by lining a standard muffin tin with cupcake liners. I prefer to use two each as I find it’s easier to remove them later, but that’s also more paper. And we like trees.

Homemade Reese's Peanut Butter Cups Recipe

Homemade Reese's Peanut Butter Cups Recipe

Melt coconut oil and dark or milk chocolate chips together in a double broiler or microwave and fill each liner with 1 tablespoon of melted chocolate. Freeze for five minutes.

Homemade Reese's Peanut Butter Cups Recipe

Once the chocolate base has frozen, top each with one tablespoon of peanut butter. Any kind of peanut butter works here. All-natural peanut butter that’s been well mixed, spreadable peanut butter with sugar and oil.

Homemade Reese's Peanut Butter Cups Recipe

You can also make this peanut butter cup recipe with almond butter, cashew butter, or sunflower seed butter… or, come to think of it, even cookie butter. (Thanks for that, brain.)

Shake or bang the muffin tin on the counter to even out the peanut butter layer, then top with 2 teaspoons of the chocolate mixture and freeze for 15 minutes.

And now you’ve got 12 peanut butter cups! You’re welcome! Also, I’m sorry.

Homemade Reese's Peanut Butter Cups Recipe

How to Store Peanut Butter Cups

Oh, you’re not like me and didn’t eat half of them in one sitting?

In that case, the cups are best stored in the freezer. Before eating, let them soften in the fridge or at room temp for a few minutes. Unless you really miss visiting your dentist.

Homemade Reese's Peanut Butter Cups Recipe

Homemade Peanut Butter Cups

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Make homemade peanut butter cups in just a few minutes with this easy recipe that combines chocolate, peanut butter, and coconut oil.
Homemade Reese's Peanut Butter Cups Recipe
Prep Time: 5 minutes mins
Freeze: 20 minutes mins
Total Time: 25 minutes mins
Servings: 12 peanut butter cups

Ingredients

  • 1½ 12 oz. bags chocolate chips
  • 2 Tbsp. coconut oil
  • 12 Tbsp. peanut butter

Instructions

  • Line muffin pan with 12 cupcake liners.
  • Melt chocolate and coconut oil together in microwave or double boiler.
  • Fill each cupcake liner with 1 Tbsp. of chocolate mixture. Freeze for five minutes.
  • Spoon 1 Tbsp. peanut butter on top of each chocolate base. Tap on counter to level out if desired.
  • Top peanut butter with 2 tsp. chocolate mixture. Freeze for 15 minutes.

Notes

Two cupcake liners are easier to peel off than one, but one is more environmentally-friendly.
Nutrition Facts
Homemade Peanut Butter Cups
Amount Per Serving (1 peanut butter cup)
Calories 317
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
Course: Candy, Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: peanut butter cups
Author: Rebecca Swanner
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Homemade Reese's Peanut Butter Cups Recipe

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Rebecca Swanner
Rebecca Swanner
Pleased to meet you. I'm the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Let's Eat Cake: The world's first smart, funny lifestyle site for women.

My background is in publishing (I've worked at Parade, Men's Journal, Us Weekly, Stuff, Blender, Beachbody, and more), mostly with a focus in health, fitness, and entertainment. I've also run my own baking company and competed on Cupcake Wars, so hit me up with your baking questions!

For more details, check out my full bio or follow me on Instagram, Twitter, or LinkedIn.
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  1. AvatarRenee | The Good Hearted Woman says

    February 13, 2019 at 4:38 pm

    Oh my gosh! The only thing I can think of better than peanut butter cups is *homemade* peanut butter cups!! And how easy is this?!? It’s perfect for a last-minute sweet treat! ????

    Reply
    • Rebecca SwannerRebecca Swanner says

      February 13, 2019 at 5:01 pm

      Thank you! They’re dangerously easy to make 🙂

      Reply
  2. AvatarSandi says

    February 13, 2019 at 6:17 pm

    My kids will be all over me to make these for them 🙂

    Reply
  3. AvatarDanielle says

    February 13, 2019 at 8:00 pm

    Yum! These look so much tastier than Reeses! Thanks for posting!

    Reply
  4. AvatarTaylor Kiser says

    February 13, 2019 at 8:14 pm

    Love how easy these are to make! Peanut butter and chocolate is the best flavor combination in the world!!

    Reply
  5. AvatarJere Cassidy says

    February 13, 2019 at 9:37 pm

    I don’t eat peanut butter but my family does and these look like the easiest candy to make. These look so much better then store bought.

    Reply
    • Rebecca SwannerRebecca Swanner says

      February 14, 2019 at 10:24 am

      Thank you! Swap the peanut butter for almond butter, cashew butter, pecan butter, or even sunflower seed butter!

      Reply
  6. Hannah RexHannah Rex says

    February 15, 2019 at 12:48 pm

    Oooooh wow. This is what dreams are made of. I can’t believe they’re so easy to make, too!!

    Reply
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