Ditch The Wrapper & Make Your Own REESE’S Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups Yourself!

If you love chocolate and peanut butter, then you will be obsessed with this peanut butter cup recipe. Find out just how easy your favorite candy is to make.

What You Will Need:

1 cups creamy peanut butter

¼ cup unsalted butter

¼ cup light brown sugar

1¼ cups powdered sugar

4 cups milk chocolate chips (two 11.5-oz bags)

¼ cup vegetable shortening

How To Prepare:

Line a mini-muffin tin with paper liners; set aside. Line a baking with parchment paper; set aside.
In a medium saucepan, combine peanut butter, butter and brown sugar over medium heat. Heat until completely melted and starting to bubble, stirring constantly. Remove from heat. Add powdered sugar ¼ cup at a time, stirring until completely combined with the peanut butter mixture after each addition. Set aside to cool.
Melt the chocolate chips and shortening together in the microwave on 50% power in 30-second increments, until completely melted, stirring after each burst.
Using a small cookie scoop, spoon melted chocolate into the bottom of each lined muffin cup.
Use a heaping teaspoon to scoop out the peanut butter mixture. Roll it into a ball, and then flatten it slightly into a disk. Place on the prepared baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Once finished with all of the peanut butter mixture, refrigerate both the muffin tins and the peanut butter patties for about 30 minutes.
Place a peanut butter patty on top of each chocolate-lined muffin tin. Then use a scoop or spoon to add more melted chocolate on top and around each peanut butter patty. (If the melted chocolate firmed up, just pop it back into the microwave at 50% power for 30 seconds or so to re-melt.)
Refrigerate again for 30 minutes, then they're ready to serve!

Next time you're going to the movies, we suggest making these ahead of time and bring them with you for your movie snack. Talk about an upgrade! We'll take homemade preservative-free candy over the alternative any day! You might as well bring some homemade fudge while you're at it!

Article Source: Brown Eyed Baker