Delicious Healthy Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups Recipe
These chocolate peanut butter cups are a healthier spin on the classic treat!
Servings: 24 cups
Ingredients
Chocolate Outer Shell Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups Lily's Dark Chocolate Baking Chips
- 1 Tbsp Coconut oil
- 2 Tbsp Peanut butter (creamy, no sugar-added)
- Salt to sprinkle on top
Peanut Butter Filling Ingredients
- 1/2 cup Peanut butter (creamy, no sugar-added)
- 1/4 cup Coconut butter
- 1 tsp Coconut sugar (optional - omit to make these sugar-free, or add more to taste)
- 5 drops Liquid Monk Fruit extract (more to taste)
Instructions
- NOTE: I use a silicone mold that has 24 wells, but you could alternatively use mini muffin tins with paper mini muffin liners instead.
- In a double boiler (I just use a shallow pot of water and a glass pyrex measuring cup to melt ingredients in), melt the chocolate outer shell ingredients together (chocolate chips, coconut oil, and peanut butter), stirring well to combine.
- Once melted, add about one tablespoon of the melted chocolate mixture to each well of the silicone liner (or the mini muffin liners) and use a spoon to push the chocolate up the sides of the mold; this will keep the peanut butter layer contained within the cup. Set the remaining chocolate aside for later.
- Place the mold in the freezer for the chocolate bottom layer to harden while you mix up the peanut butter layer.
- Melt the coconut butter if it’s at room temp. Combine peanut butter filling ingredients, stirring well.
- Remove the chocolate layer from the freezer once the chocolate has hardened.
- Add 1 ½ teaspoons of peanut butter filling to the chocolate layer. Place mold in the freezer for the peanut butter layer to harden.
- Once peanut butter layer has hardened, remove from freezer.
- Reheat the remaining chocolate outer shell ingredients in the double boiler if necessary.
- Add the remaining chocolate on top of the peanut butter filling, approximately 2 tsp per cup.
- Sprinkle the tops of the cups with salt and place mold back in the freezer to set.
- Once set, remove from the freezer, pop the cups out of the mold and enjoy!
- Store in refrigerator or freezer.