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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 Peanut Butter Cups
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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
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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! 💝
Thank you! They’re dangerously easy to make 🙂
My kids will be all over me to make these for them 🙂
Yum! These look so much tastier than Reeses! Thanks for posting!
Love how easy these are to make! Peanut butter and chocolate is the best flavor combination in the world!!
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.
Thank you! Swap the peanut butter for almond butter, cashew butter, pecan butter, or even sunflower seed butter!
Oooooh wow. This is what dreams are made of. I can’t believe they’re so easy to make, too!!