Easy Vegan Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups (Only 4 Ingredients)
Peanut butter lovers rejoice! Previous Reese's cup lovers who are now vegan can still enjoy the delicious treat of a peanut butter cup, just without the dairy. This is by no means a health food, but life is short. Let's enjoy a treat together!
Equipment
- 4 cupcake liners
- standard cupcake pan
Ingredients
- 5 tbsp peanut butter
- 4 tbsp powdered sugar
- (2) 2.64 ounce vegan chocolate bars or 5.28 ounces other vegan chocolate
- 1 tsp coconut oil
Instructions
- This recipe makes four peanut butter cups, so you will need four cupcake liners. Place the cupcake liners in a standard size cupcake pan. Set aside.
- In a small bowl, stir together the peanut butter and powdered sugar until it comes together into a ball resembling a dough ball. Set aside.
- In another small bowl, break up the chocolate bars into small pieces (around thumb size is fine). Melt chocolate in the microwave in 30 second increments until melted, stopping to stir in between increments. Once chocolate is melted fully, stir in coconut oil.
- Start by adding 1 tbsp of the melted chocolate to the bottom of each cupcake liner. Next, divide the peanut butter mix into four parts and roll into discs roughly 1.5-2 inches in diameter. Place the discs in each cupcake liner and top with remaining melted chocolate.
- Freeze the cups until solid, about 15-20 minutes. Enjoy!
- Leftovers can be stored in the freezer in a ziploc bag. Just be sure to let them sit 1-2 minutes after taking them out of the freezer before enjoying.
Notes
The chocolate brand I used was Beyond Good, and it was in the form of chocolate bars. You can also use chocolate chips.
When melting the chocolate, it took me about 2:00 total (four 30 second increments). My microwave is 1250W, so melting times may vary. Just be sure to do it in 30 second increments so you don't burn the chocolate.