Peanut Butter Cups

[AshleyKimball]

Question: is it powedered sugar, or regular?  You mention too different types in the recipe.  I really want to try this one out!

[AliAli009]

These were yummy!

[AliAli009]

Ashley Kimball, I used powdered sugar.

[trishy06]

these were scrumptious. reeses suck.

i didnt use sugar/salt or cut the muffin cups just cause im lazy.

[AshleyKimball]

Some of the compliments I got after serving these:

"OMFG--these are better than reeses!!"
"How did you make these?!  I can't believe how good they are"
"You made these?!  Yeah right!"
"WTF, these can't be vegan" (Is that really a compliment? )

Honestly, these were so much fun to make!  I haven't tasted one, but I certainly enjoyed making them more than I'll ever like eating them.  I used a paintbrush to apply the chocolate, and I didn't heat the peanut butter mixture.  The recipe made 15 trimmed muffin cups with a shit load of extra chocolate.  I bet 1 cup of chocolate would be sufficient.

FYI--the most "authentic" tasting variation is to apply the chocolate a little bit thickly up the walls of a 3/4 muffin cup, and cram in as much PB mixture as you can before covering thinly with chocolate.  The thicker the walls are, the easier to eat it without breaking.

[nhyhsh]

These were good a lil hard to do the chocolate with a spoon so I have to get me a brush asap. Other than simple and a delight!

[veganlily]

Excellent!  When my sister's omi boyfriend bit into his as part of dessert after Easter dinner, he could not stop himself from exclaiming, "holy crap!"  And he immediately started lobbying to take the remaining two cups home with him.

One modification: I can't reccomend strongly enough that you add a little vegan butter or spectrum shortening (about 1/2 to 1 tablespoon) to the chocolate as it melts.  This makes it: 1. easier to spread without needing a spoon or a brush to smooth it into the cups -just use a spoon to drizzle some into the muffin cup and it spreads perfectly with perhaps a little shake of the pan; 2. melt better; and 3. look super smooth, professional, and perfect (seriously, just like a reese's). 

I added the second layer of chocolate right on top of the warm pb and it worked great.  No need to wait a second time for the pb to freeze.  I then froze all of them overnight, which made them set really well.  Kept them in the refrigerator until it was time to serve, I think they would stay good in the fridge pretty much indefinitely.  I do think they would get melty and quite messy at room temperature after a few hours, so I would not reccomend keeping them out for too long before serving.

These are so easy and so impressive...make them!  Oh, and I used a full size muffin tin and liners cut in half, they were very large pb cups.  For a smaller gathering or as part of a larger spread on a dessert table, I would definitely suggest using a mini muffin pan and mini liners, if you've got 'em.

[jessie lee]

very ggod, extreemely good, i will make these again.  Just watch out for the amount of minutes you put the ingredients in the microwave though cause i put my peanut butter in for 2 min. not 1, and it kinda burnt and smelled weird.  good easy recipe

[feelinsoreal]

I haven't tasted these yet but they were very fun to make! I was going to make these for the cast and crew of a play I'm working with but unfortunately did not have enough chocolate chips to double the recipe, so the extras will just go to the neighbors (I don't need 12 peanut butter cups lying around, or else I'll never fit in my jeans again, lol). I had one minor qualm though - maybe it's just my peanut butter (organic creamy) or the way I made the cups, but I had WAY too much peanut butter left over afterwards. The chocolate was fine and was just enough for 12 cups, but I had half of the PB mixture left after I'd ran out of chocolate, and since I didn't have any chocolate chips left in the house, I had to throw the remaining mixture away. Next time I will halve the mixture but I'm just wondering if I did something wrong since no one else seems to be running out of peanut butter to go in the cups. To make them I lined the bottom of the paper cups with some chocolate, put a plop of peanut butter on top (about a spoonful), then poured more chocolate over the PB. Any ideas?

Well, apart from loosing a lot of peanut butter, this was a success (I'm certain they'll be yummy). I used cane sugar and no salt in the PB mixture, and it tasted fine. Thanks for the recipe! Peanut butter cups are my kryptonite and it's nice to have a means of eating them without hydrogenated oils and all the other countless ingredients in there (I was already weary of conventional treats and their chemistry class ingredient lists, but then I read Twinkie Deconstructed and now I'm REALLY weary, lol).

[TinSwordArthur]

I made these last night.  Wow!  I didn't cut the mini-muffin cups in half, nor did I add any extra salt to the mix (there's already some in the pb I keep here).  They look a little funky since I don't have any mini-muffin pans and they are a bit difficult to get out of the cups until you get used to doing it, but boy are they great!

[veganmonster]

these are so yum... like almost unbelievably so. I absolutely love them and they taste just like reese's cups. i used the aluminum cupcake cups because they stand up better after the heated chocolate is in them and they are easier to work with. the cups come out looking perfect too! everyone loved them and they went SO fast!!

[Lauuren]

I used crunchy peanut butter (come on, why use creamy when you could have crunchy?) and these were excellent.  Mine stuck to the paper wrappers pretty badly, but having to peel the paper off made us pause between bites, which is important.  I found that putting the filled muffin cups into a muffin pan in the freezer (mine is silicon, so maybe it's less weird) stabilized them really well while freezing.

[keep_on_keepin_on]

these tasted like the real thing..it was a little messy trying to brush the melted chocolate into the muffin cups- but well worth it; everyone loved them

[keep_on_keepin_on]

oh, and by accident i used regular sugar- definately use powdered sugar. by using reg. sugar the granuals dont break down since its cold..a little crunchy other than the fact i used crunchy peanut butter