Easy Peanut Butter Cups

by Lynn

My husband loves peanut butter. He especially loves the peanut butter cups you buy. I have tried several versions of homemade peanut butter cups over the years, but I have not found a recipe that we really thought was great.

This year though I found a recipe in an old Martha Stewart Everyday Food magazine. It was a little different in that you use white chocolate in the peanut butter layer. I decided I would give Martha’s version a try and oh was it good.

Seriously, these were so good. I made these for our office party and I think they were the most popular dessert item. There were none left and my kids think I need to make some more.

These really were as close to the real store bought ones that I have made. I will be making these again. They were really good, really easy, and really frugal to make.

Lynn


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Phoebe @ Cents to Get Debt Free December 7, 2009 at 8:57 pm

Yummo!!! These would be great to make for the tray of goodies I send into my husband’s work.

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Lisa@blessedwithgrace December 7, 2009 at 10:15 pm

Oh Lynn…. You are now my best friend!!! :-)

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chris parrill December 8, 2009 at 1:10 am

i had your website bookmarked for quite some time and decided to go to it tonight. read your post on peanut butter cups and i have recently discovered by using natural peanut butter that i grind at fred meyer health food section works wonderful to achieve the “real” peanut butter cup flavor. i was so desperate for chocolate one night i tried the pnut butter and choc and could not believe how close it was to the candy bar.

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Lynn December 8, 2009 at 8:48 am

@chris parrill, I love natural peanut butter, but my husband doesn’t really like it. So, I have never thought to use it in a recipe like this. But thanks for suggesting it. I may have to give it a try.

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niki December 8, 2009 at 4:19 am

Wow, these look amazing!

:)

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Lauren December 8, 2009 at 9:20 am

I’m so glad that they’re easy, because they look dreamy!

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Iowa personal injury attorney December 8, 2009 at 12:40 pm

Looks like I have a project when I get off of work today.

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Katie December 8, 2009 at 2:21 pm

Those look and sound like a dream come true :)

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Kristina December 8, 2009 at 2:32 pm

Yum! I don’t have any mini muffin pans. Is there any reason I couldn’t just make these bigger in a regular muffin pan?

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Lynn December 8, 2009 at 2:52 pm

@Kristina, I think it would work fine to make these bigger.

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Jenna @ Newlyweds December 8, 2009 at 2:40 pm

Oh wow those look delicious, I just love peanut butter cups. I will have to try these. That is after my sugar fast.

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Org Junkie December 8, 2009 at 4:13 pm

Thanks for the awesome and festive recipe!

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vickie December 8, 2009 at 6:00 pm

oh my husband is wild about reese’s peanut butter cups -I have to give this a try.
vickie

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Brenda December 8, 2009 at 6:48 pm

Those look really fun and easy

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Doylene Brents December 8, 2009 at 9:34 pm

I think everyone loves peanut butter cups. Yours are very pretty. Doylene

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Oklahoma Granny December 8, 2009 at 11:25 pm

I just had to make these little cups for our Open House this weekend. They’re chilling in the refrigerator as I type this. Way easy to do! Thanks for the recipe.

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Geri@heartnsoulcooking December 9, 2009 at 2:29 pm

These little treats looks and sound so YUMMY!!!
Geri

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Micah June 26, 2010 at 5:52 pm

This looks more like 2 layers of chocolate than a peanut butter cup – which actually looks even better! I’m a huge white chocolate fan, so I bet these would taste awesome.
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Jo July 8, 2010 at 9:35 am

They look yummy….i dont like white chocolate much though….maybe i can try using regular chocolate?
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Xochilt October 22, 2010 at 8:12 pm

I’m making these right now….I can tell they are going to be awesome, because I tried the filling ;D lol shhh

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Xochilt October 22, 2010 at 8:48 pm

I just made these and they are sooo good! Here is a pic of them :p

http://i54.tinypic.com/14c6tea.jpg

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Xochilt October 23, 2010 at 1:35 pm
Lynn October 23, 2010 at 1:53 pm

@Xochilt, Thank you!

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Xochilt December 29, 2010 at 1:31 am

@Lynn,

You’re welcome >_<

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Kali M November 13, 2010 at 5:35 pm

Made these yesterday… very yummy, peanut butter middles were delicious, but the semisweet chocolate was very rich. Next time I will make them with milk chocolate chocolate chips, mmm… Thanks for posting!

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