PhDCupcaker

One night I was looking for something sweet to eat… I knew I had some peanut butter and I had some chocolate left over from my Hostess with the Mostest Cupcakes so I thought I would try to make some putter butter cups. I had been given a recipe for these from a vegan cookbook, but I didn’t have all those ingredients so I just made do with what I had – peanut butter, chocolate, powdered sugar, and vanilla. I melted the chocolate and lined some regular sized cupcake liners with the chocolate.  I put them in the fridge for a while to harden up a bit and I made the filling by mixing 1 cup of peanut butter, a 1/2 cup powdered sugar, and 1 tsp. vanilla extract. I also put this in the fridge for a bit. When the chocolate liners were ready I took them out and added a dollop of the peanut butter mixture into each liner and then finished them up with a dollop more of chocolate to cover… Like I said, I was doing this on a whim and so I ended up not having enough chocolate to cover them all. Two of them just ended up having just a bottom layer of chocolate, but they still tasted great.  After a little more time in the fridge they were ready to go. Here’s a snapshot of one that I cut in half.

I must say that they were not easy to eat – biting through the chocolate layer to get to the peanut butter was a bit of a chore, but they tasted so good!  I would definitely try these again. They would also be great in mini-liners – you could just pop a whole one in your mouth -more like the Reese’s Miniature Peanut Butter Cups!