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homemade peanut butter cups

Recipe by
Rhonda Wheeler
Warren, MI

This is an easy sweet for giving and a snack for anytime.

yield 12 serving(s)
prep time 20 Min
method Refrigerate/Freeze

Ingredients For homemade peanut butter cups

  • 18 oz
    milk chocolate chopped(about 2 1/2 cups)
  • 1 c
    peanut butter
  • 1/2 c
    confectioners' sugar
  • 1/4 c
    saltine crackers finely crushed
  • 2 Tbsp
    butter softened
  • Pinch
    salt

How To Make homemade peanut butter cups

  • 1
    Melt chocolate in top of double boiler and keep warm.
  • 2
    Combine peanut butter, confections sugar,saltines,butter,and salt with a mixer till well combined.
  • 3
    Prepare muffin pan with 18 paper liners (cupcake ones). Add 1 teaspoon melted chocolate to bottom of liner.
  • 4
    Using a spoon spread the chocolate in a thin even layer on the bottom and a third way up the side. Repeat with rest of liners.
  • 5
    Put muffin pan in freezer for about 5 minutes till hardened.
  • 6
    Spread 2 heaping teaspoon fulls of peanut butter filling in the bottom of a chocolate coated muffin liner. Should come to below the chocolate line.
  • 7
    Top peanut butter filling with 2 teaspoonfuls of melted chocolate spreading it over the top so no filling is visable. Repeat with rest of liners. Freeze 10 minutes.

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