How Do You Make Homemade Peanut Butter Cups?
• Place baking cups into a muffin pan. If you want miniature peanut butter cups, use miniature baking cups. • Melt your chocolate in a double boiler. You have some choices here as far as the types of chocolate. Keep in mind that your chocolate should have enough cocoa butter content so it doesn’t melt quickly. If you want chocolate that does not melt easily, you can add a tablespoon or so of coconut oil. • Pour some melted chocolate into each baking cup, thoroughly coating the bottom of the baking cup. • Place the baking cups into the freezer for 10 minutes or longer as you prepare the peanut butter. • While you can certainly use straight peanut butter from the jar, you’ll find that adding a pat or two of butter, a teaspoon or two of confectioner’s sugar, and 1/2 teaspoon of salt (more or less to taste) will give the peanut butter a texture more like the peanut butter in a Reese’s cup. If you add ingredients to your peanut butter, be sure to incorporate the ingredients completely. • Ta
