All you need to make them is 2 ingredients, thats it!
- 2 Lindt 85% dark chocolate (you can use 70% if preferred as 85% can be quite bitter to some people)
- A jar of Meridan Peanut Butter
Why dark chocolate?
Dark chocolate is packed full of fibre and antioxidants and the darker the chocolate, so the higher the percentage the less sugar the chocolate contains. However, it's definitely not to everyone's taste, if you tried to give me a piece of dark chocolate a year ago I would've told you I'd rather eat frogspawn. But as I'm 24 now there had to be a perk somewhere and that was me starting to LOVE dark chocolate. (thank god getting old has perks ey)
The Method
Making these peanut butter cups is so so simple. First off, take one bar of the Lindt chocolate and break it up into little pieces and put them in a bowl ready to melt. I like to melt my chocolate in the microwave, blast it for 30 seconds, take it out and stir, then repeat until the chocolate is fully melted. This ensures that you're not burning the chocolate (and you get to lick the spoon - winner!!)
Once the chocolate is melted, take your cake cases and put them on a plate, pour about 5mm-1cm of the melted chocolate into each case to just cover the bottom, you should get about 10 out of the 1 bar of chocolate. Then pop them in the freezer to chill (insert funny chilling in the fridge meme here) for about 10 minutes or so.
After 10 minutes in the freezer the chocolate should be set again. It's Peanut Butter Jelly Time! (Minus the jelly). Put a teaspoon of Meridian Peanut Butter on each of the cases. You can use any kind of peanut butter, but I like Meridian because it's organic and has no nasties, so it's much better for you than most.
Take the other bar of Lindt chocolate you have and melt it the same way you done the first bar. Then pour the melted chocolate over the peanut butter until it's completely covered. Once you've covered them all, pop them in the freezer for another 10 minutes or so.
Once set, sit back, relax, grab a cuppa and tuck in!
BUT, just because these are a healthier version of Reese's Peanut Butter cups it is still chocolate, so don't say I didn't tell you that eating all 10 is probably not the best idea! (but if you fancy a treat, go for it ;) )
I hope you liked this recipe! let me know what you think in the comments.
Ciao for now xo
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