Who doesn’t love peanut butter and chocolate… together?! Almost everyone in my family LOVES Reeces Peanut butter cups but they obviously aren’t the healthiest or most ideal food for daily consumption. (: So, I came up with a home-made reeces peanut butter cup recipe, sweetened with pure maple syrup! Now I can eat them whenever I want without feeling guilty! (;
I debated between honey and maple syrup when I first created this recipe last year. Both are delicious but the grade A maple syrup offered a more neutral flavor and allowed the delicious flavor of the peanut butter to stand out! I made a batch a couple days ago and I am finally getting around to posting the recipe. My family is used to eating unsweetened peanut butter but if you aren’t you may want to add additional maple syrup or perhaps less depending on how much sweetness you prefer… just add syrup to taste! 🙂
If you really need a good excuse to make these peanut butter cups, with the pure maple syrup, peanut butter, and chocolate(darker the better) they are a wonderful source of iron! 😀
Yields: 12 Delightfully delicious AND healthy Peanut Butter Cups
Ingredients
- 12 oz simi sweet chocolate chips or dark chocolate chips (the darker the chocolate the better!)
- 1 1/2 cup raw peanut butter (unsweetened/unsalted)
- 1/2 cup pure Grade A maple syrup
- 1 tsp salt
- Line a standard muffin tin with 12 muffin cups.
- Melt 1/2 of the chocolate chips. Using a spoon, drop about 1.5tbs melted chocolate into a cup and line bottom and sides with the chocolate, creating the chocolate cups. Repeat with remaining muffin cups. Once completed, place in freezer for 5-10 minutes.
- Meanwhile, Combine Peanut butter, Maple Syrup, and Salt until well combine. Remove chocolate cups from freezer and divide peanut butter filling evenly between 12 muffin cups. Press peanut butter filling with a spoon to flatten. Return the muffin cups to the freezer.
- Melt remaining chocolate. Spoon and spread evenly over the tops of each peanut butter cup.
- Refrigerate for approximately 1 hour to set.
- Enjoy!
longagofamily
These look fabulous! Can’t wait to try them. Your family and our family must have very similar tastes in food… 🙂 Your photography is amazing!
somethingsage
Okay…how about you try them when I come home, Mom???? Yes???? 😉 Well…I guess I could try them up here too, couldn’t I! What a novel idea! 😉 Hmmm…I think I might even have all the ingredients!
somethingsage
Is it weird to have a comment conversation on someone else’s blog, I wonder? 😀
Rachel
I don’t find it weird!! 😀 Carry on your conversation. 😉
Rachel
Thank you!! I hope you enjoy them as much as we do. 😀
Thank you so much for your kind words about my photography! They are so encouraging. I am so thankful the Lord has blessed me with the ability and tools needed to take the pictures! 🙂
Lizzy
Oh wow these look delicious! The peanut butter + chocolate combination has to be one of the best…ever.
Great photos!
Lizzy
Rachel
Thanks Lizzy. Peanut butter + chocolate = perfection! 😉