Homemade Peanut Butter Cups (2024)

With our homemade peanut butter cups recipe, you can recreate classic Reese’s candy with just four pantry staples. The combination of chocolate and peanut butter center makes this tasty homemade treat utterly irresistible.

Homemade Peanut Butter Cups Ingredients

Substitutions And Additions

CHOCOLATE: Milk chocolate can also be used, or even a combination of semi-sweet with milk chocolate. Use your favorite kind of chocolate!

PEANUT BUTTER: Crunchy peanut butter can be used in place of creamy peanut butter. If you wanted to give these a try with an alternative nut butter, try cashew butter or almond butter for this easy peanut butter cups recipe.

How To Make This Homemade Peanut Butter Cups Recipe

STEP ONE: Line twelve muffin cups with cupcake liners. Set aside.

STEP TWO: In a small microwave-safe bowl, place half of the chocolate. Melt the chocolate by heating in 30-second intervals and stirring in between.

This should take 30 to 60 seconds in total. The chocolate should be smooth.

STEP THREE: Scoop about ½ tablespoon of melted chocolate into each cupcake liner.

This can be done by scooping the chocolate with one spoon and scraping it off with another.

STEP FOUR: Shake the pan periodically back and forth to help spread the chocolate so that it covers the bottom of the liner.

STEP FIVE: Freeze for 15 minutes.

STEP SIX: While the chocolate is freezing, prepare the peanut butter mixture. Measure the peanut butter, powdered sugar, and butter into a medium bowl.

Using a hand mixer, mix until creamy.

STEP SEVEN: Put one tablespoon of the peanut butter filling on top of the frozen chocolate layer, making sure the filling does not touch the sides of the cupcake liner.

STEP EIGHT: Freeze for five minutes.

STEP NINE: In a microwave-safe bowl (use the one from step two), melt the remaining chocolate in the same way as explained in step two.

STEP TEN: Cover the peanut butter layer with the melted chocolate.

STEP ELEVEN: Freeze for 10 to 15 minutes or refrigerate for 15 to 20 minutes until hardened.

How To Serve These Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups

This chocolate peanut butter cup recipe makes the perfect confection for anyone who loves this classic combo.

If you can resist gobbling up these treats right away, they would make perfect gifts, along with our Martha Washington candy and peppermint bark.

Do you love the chocolate and peanut butter flavor profile? Then, you have to make these no bake peanut butter bars and peanut butter balls next.

Storage

IN THE FRIDGE: Store your homemade peanut butter cups in an airtight container.

You can place them in the fridge to keep them cool and make sure that they do not melt. They can also be left out at room temperature.

IN THE FREEZER: You can place your homemade candy in the freezer for longer storage.

We recommend letting them thaw before eating to make sure that the peanut butter is nice and creamy.

Chocolate chips, peanut butter, powdered sugar, and butter are all you will need to make your own peanut butter cups at home. While making this recipe might be simple, it is not lacking in delicious sweetness. The creamy peanut butter and rich chocolate treat is always a huge hit.

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