Homemade Peanut Butter Cups!

                                                          

After watching post after post of everyone's candy yesterday, I decided I wanted some too.  However, I was not going out to the store to get my favorite- Reeses Peanut Butter Cups, because now that I know what is in them, I have a hard time allowing myself to put it in my body!  So I made them instead-  and let me say, they were so easy to make and so DELICIOUS!

Ingredients-

                    Chocolate Mixture-

                                                  1/2 bag of Organic Dark Chocolate that you can melt

                                                  1/4 cup Organic Coconut Oil

                                                  1 Tablespoon Vanilla flavoring

                    Peanut Butter mixture-

                                                  1/3 cup Organic Peanut Butter

                                                  1.5 Tablespoon Local/Organic Honey

                                                  1/8 teaspoon Coconut Oil

                  Other items needed-

                                 Mini cupcake tin- mine held 12, and this recipe was perfect for that amount

                                 Mini cupcake liners

                                 Double boiler to melt chocolate and peanut butter- I do no have one, so I used a soup pot and two stainless steel bowls which fit in the pot, that are also ok with heat. 

1.  Line cupcake tin with liners.

2. Chocolate Mixture-   

 Allow water to boil in bottom pot. Place pot or other bowl on top and add coconut oil.  Once melted- add chocolate and stir constantly.  You do not want to let it burn.  Once most of it is melted- add vanilla and continue stirring.

Once melted, add bottom layer of chocolate to the cupcake liners.  Place in freezer for about ten minutes.

While in freezer- 

remove chocolate mixture- you will reheat and use the rest in a bit.

2.  Peanut Butter Mixture- 

With water boiling-place second bowl or pot and add coconut oil.  Once melted add peanut butter and honey and stir constantly until melted and smooth.  

Once bottom chocolate later is frozen, add peanut butter layer- about a spoonful/

Place in freezer for another 10 minutes.

3.  After 10 minutes, take out.  Reheat chocolate mixture.  Should only take maybe 5 minutes to re-melt it.  Add top layer.  Place back in freezer and let cool for another ten minutes, if not longer.

                                                         

ENJOY!

Always eat for your body- and do not deprive yourself of something you are craving.  There is always another alternative- you just have to find it or create it!