Recipe // Peanut Butter Cups

Hey y’all!  A few weeks ago a friend and I got together and had a craving for something chocolate.  Being the person I am who hates following instructions, I pulled out some peanut butter and chocolate chips and was determined to make peanut butter cups with them, without a recipe.   So many recipes call for so many different ingredients and a lot of time, and we didn’t have much time.  So, we made these without a recipe in minutes.  And they were perfectly scrumptious.

Basically, all you do is: put chocolate chips in a bowl; microwave + stir however many times until they melted.  Pour a layer of chocolate on the bottom of the mini-cupcake wrappers, then a layer of peanut butter, then another layer of chocolate to sandwich the peanut butter in between the chocolate.  Then put them in the freezer to start hardening for a few minutes.  Once they begin hardening, move to the fridge to finish hardening.  The freezer helps quicken the hardening, but don’t leave it in long unless you might break your teeth!

(As you can see in the photo, several of them have only the first layer chocolate; some have the chocolate and peanut butter, and some have all 3 layers finished.)

These actually taste quite like normal peanut butter cups, in my opinion.  The peanut butter doesn’t really harden much, and the chocolate goes solid, so be careful how long you keep them in.  Adjust the amounts of chocolate/peanut butter to fit your preferences.

!!Warning *** these could be addictive!!

Enjoy!! :)