refined sugar free homemade chocolate peanut butter cups
your new favorite replacement for a Reese's peanut butter cup.
Servings: 12 chocolate peanut butter cups
Ingredients
- 6 medjool dates
- 1/2 cup + 2 tbsp chopped roasted peanuts
- 1/2 cup + 1 tbsp refined sugar free dark chocolate chips, melted i use hu kitchen dark chocolate gems
- 1/4 cup peanut butter (give or take)
Instructions
- in a mini muffin pan, place mini muffin parchment paper cups.
- take your medjool dates and slice each in half as cleanly as possible, removing the pit.
- open up one half of a medjool date and flatten it a bit before placing it inside the parchment paper cup, rounding out the bottom of the cup as much as possible. repeat with all 6 medjool dates (12 halves total).
- add a spoonful of peanut butter to the top of each medjool date.
- add chopped roasted peanuts to the top of each date, pressing down on each. feel free to add as much as you like.
- you can melt your chocolate chips in a microwave-safe bowl at 30-40 second intervals, stirring in between, until fully melted.
- spoon your melted chocolate on top of each cup, allowing it to cover the entire top.
- top off each peanut butter cup with some more roasted peanuts.
- place in freezer, allow to freeze for at least 2 hours. store in freezer and serve frozen/cold!