How to Make Peanut Butter Cups at Home

 

You might have heard of the popular chocolate Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. There are a range of peanut butter chocolates that Reese has and the peanut butter cups are one of the most popular. Why not try to make them at home the simple way? Here is something else you can do with your cupcake molds, use them to make some homemade peanut butter cups.

Here is what you will need.

2-3 tablespoons of peanut butter

250 gm / half a packet of chocolate bar (choose dark or milk)

A dab of butter

2 cups of water

Cupcake mold the individual steel ones work best (tray will work too)

Instructions

1. Break off your chocolate into little pieces and place on a glass bowl that fits perfectly over your pot
2. Boil 2 cups of water in the pot over the stove and use a double boiler to melt your chocolate
3. Get your cupcake mold ready by dabbing the mold with butter
4. Pour in two thirds of your melted chocolate in the mold and slide the chocolate to those sides so as to get the chocolate in the shape
5. The mold goes in the freezer for at least 15 minutes
6. In the microwave, melt your peanut butter at P100 for 10 seconds
7. Take your mold out of the freezer and pour in the peanut butter in the center.
8. Then cover the peanut butter with the rest of your melted chocolate and put in the back in the freezer for at least 15 mins.
9. The chocolate should be set by now, use a butter knife or a fork to lightly scrape at the edges and wiggle out your peanut butter cup.

Enjoy your peanut butter cups. Have one or two or three!