Peanut Butter Cups

I can think of a million uses for "Reese's" peanut butter cups.   One of them?  Crushed in ice cream!!  (Who hasn't gotten a Reese's Blizzard from Dairy Queen at least ONCE in their life?). I have many fond memories of my grandmother who LOVED eating them (not to mention a number of other very close relatives and family friends).

I have been thinking about making these for so long and now I'm really not sure why it took me so long to actually do it!  They're SO simple to make, very tasty, and easy for getting little kids involved.  :)

Why not make your own "Reese's" Peant Butter Cups and toss them on some vanilla ice cream, or just to have as a simple dessert?  Make these as minis to pack in school lunches or to make "thumb print" cookies with!  I'm pretty sure the options are endless!

Peanut Butter Cups

1 bag chocolate chips (use your favorite kind!)
peanut butter (I like to use natural with no-added sugar, but use what you have or prefer to eat!)

Line a muffin tin with 12 paper liners.  In two bowls, divide the chocolate chips into 1/4 of the bag in one bowl and 3/4 of the chocolate chips in the other.  In the microwave, melt the smaller bowl of chocolate chips (just a tip for melting chocolate in the microwave - do it in slow increments, about 30 seconds, then in 15 second segments, mixing the chocolate each time so you don't over melt them and burn the chocolate - it really doesn't taste good if you do!!!).

Pour the chocolate evenly into the bottom of each cupcake liner, just covering the bottoms of each so there is a thick enough later at the bottom.  Allow to harden (you may want to put it in the fridge to harden - this will take about 15 minutes).

Next, spoon about 1 tbs of peanut butter in the center of each cupcake liner, trying your best to leave a little bit of an edge for the chocolate to spill over (to create a sort of "seal").  You may decide that you want even more, so I'll leave that up to you!

Lastly, melt the second bowl of chocolate (the larger one).  Once melted, pour the chocolate over each blob of peanut butter so all the peanut butter is covered.  Allow the chocolate to hard and serve!


Beware!  If you use natural peanut butter, you might want to have a napkin on hand (or a spare sink... it gets really messy, but totally worth the chocolate-peanut "butteryness" that covers everything!)