I made Reese’s Cups of my own. All mine, no one could eat them. Except when my friend Lauren came over with her mom and we all stuffed our faces with these little candies.
I found it ironic that the night before I made these my dad bought one of those jumbo size bags of regular Reese’s Candy. I’m pretty sure I had already told him I was planning on making my own candy. Maybe he bought them as backup? I don’t know, but what I do know is that these were better than the original candy in my opinion. The other Reese’s have dairy and all that fun stuff in them so I can’t eat them, but the ones I made have no dairy whatsoever.
And they tasted wonderful.
For as long as I can remember Reese’s cups were part of my childhood. In fifth grade we had a “presidential election” for Snickers and Reese’s. The real elections were happening at that time but no fifth grader is going to vote for people when they can vote for a candy president. I marched into my classroom on our election day with Reese’s in the pockets of my uniform and a giant Reese’s voting button I had made the night before. I held my head high and cast my vote. To my dismay, Snickers won the election. Which meant that on every field trip from that point on we would all be given a King Sized Snicker’s bar.
It was probably the most traumatic event of my childhood. But my voting pin did get put into our class’ time capsule.
I think that pretty much counts as a win.
- 1½ c. chocolate chips
- 1 c. creamy peanut butter
- ½ c. powdered sugar
- ¼ tsp. salt
- 24 mini cupcake liners
- Line a mini cupcake pan with the liners. Melt your chocolate chips in the microwave on 30 second intervals, stirring in between sets until your chips are completely melted.
- Pour a small amount of the chocolate into the liners and using your finger, push the chocolate up the side of the cupcake liner all the way around. This ensures that you only see chocolate on the outside of the peanut butter cup and not any peanut butter streaks.
- Place in the freezer while you prepare your peanut butter mixture. Melt your peanut butter in the microwave and then mix in powdered sugar and salt until smooth and creamy.
- Take your cupcake pan out of the freezer. Pipe or spoon a small amount of peanut butter filling in your cupcake liners and spread until it’s smooth. J
- ust make sure not to put your peanut butter higher than the chocolate lining on your liners.
- Place back in the freezer for about 8-10 minutes, letting the peanut butter filling harden. After 8-10 minutes, take out of cupcake pan and cover the peanut butter filling with the remaining melted chocolate.
- This time, place in the refrigerator and you’re done.
- Take out when ready to serve.
I hope you make these soon. They’re super easy to make and taste delicious. The small amount of work you put into these has great rewards. Well, great rewards in taste… I still think that’s a pretty great reward. 🙂
Much Love,
Katherine Marie
My Bible Verse For Today:
“Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,”
1 Peter 1:3
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