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Homemade Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups

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Please help me celebrate THREE years of blogging at Losing It and Loving It. On 2/22/08, I started this weight loss/fitness blog to share my journey and hopefully help inspire others to keep going with their healthy lifestyle.  You may be thinking that homemade chocolate peanut butter cups don’t belong on a this type of blog I would disagree *wink*

One of my all time favorite treats has always been Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups and over the last few months I had been reading about making a healthier version of the special treat.  I tested some homemade chocolate peanut butter cups over Christmas and they were good but not great.  I used dark chocolate chips in the Christmas batch (because dark chocolate is better for you right?) but used milk chocolate chips this time.  I preferred it this way more.  For once I didn’t measure anything out and just went for it but you can see in the recipe below.

Meghann’s Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups (at the very end of the blog post)

And here is how I made them.

Angie’s Homemade Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups

For my chocolate peanut butter cups I used milk chocolate chips (half a bag?), natural peanut butter (2 generous size spoonfuls) and vanilla.  Tried using coconut oil but it burns so easily (I imagine you could mix that in the chocolate chips after you melt them if you so choose)

Add some vanilla to peanut butter then heat up a bit in the microwave so it gets soft.  Stir.

Melt chocolate chips in microwave.  Stir.

Put cupcake liners in muffin pan (or not, you can pour direct into muffin pan too), pour a little chocolate to coat the bottom of each liner, then add a little peanut butter mixture and then top off with a little more chocolate.  Freeze and enjoy.

Tip:  Keep the homemade chocolate peanut butter cups in the freezer or they get really soft and don’t turn out as well.  Take out to soften as needed!

Happy 3 year blogoversary to me! Celebrated with a tasty breakfast.

What is your favorite sweet treat?

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  1. Mary of Front Porch Ideas says

    February 22, 2011 at 12:16 pm

    This treat sounds absolutely delicious. I’m a big fan of chocolate and peanut butter, Angie. This sounds really easy to make, too. Thank you for sharing.

    Reply
    • Angie says

      February 22, 2011 at 12:48 pm

      Mary, thanks for stopping by. These are really tasty. Still not 100% healthy but much better than the original. The vegan ones I posted about are pretty healthy though. Oh and totally easy to make!

      Reply
  2. Lori says

    February 22, 2011 at 8:20 pm

    Yay! Congrats to you! Love PB cups, but it is way too hard for me to pick a favorite sweet treat. My sweet tooth takes up my whole mouth. 🙂

    Reply
    • Angie says

      February 22, 2011 at 10:39 pm

      Thanks so much, Lori! And LOL about your sweet tooth.

      Reply
  3. Natalie A. says

    February 23, 2011 at 11:00 am

    Angie – I would have NEVER thought to do this myself. Thank you so much for pointing out to me that I could make much healthier tasty treats for myself and Scott. I love to idea of controlling what goes into our bodies.

    Reply
    • Angie says

      February 24, 2011 at 1:06 pm

      You’re welcome! It’s still not 100% healthy BUT it doesn’t have as much junk in it as the regular packaged ones do.

      Reply
  4. Groff's Girl says

    February 25, 2011 at 12:22 am

    Those look amazing…I want to also eat the waffles off the screen!! What an amazing journey you have had!! So glad I stopped by and got to see all of these yummy eats and inspiring posts :):)

    Reply
    • Angie says

      February 25, 2011 at 7:56 am

      Thanks so much for stopping by! The journey has been an interesting one and I’m determined to make more great things happen.

      Reply

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