Clean Eating Peanut Butter Cups (Vegan)

Melissa King Healthy Chocolate and Candy, Recipes

Clean Eating Peanut Butter Cups.  Let’s face it.  We all need a little something sweet every once and a while.  Who says you need to give up peanut butter cups?  While I will never eat Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups again, I will have a homemade peanut butter cup every now and then!

 

clean eating peanut butter cups

 

I made these with homemade peanut butter and also almond butter.  Both worked out well, but I think I liked the peanut butter cups better.  Most homemade peanut butter cup recipes call for powdered sugar.  This does not.  I just dropped some freshly made peanut butter in the middle of these.

So much better that way and also much less sugar too!  The chips I used are from Enjoy Life.  You can also make your own chocolate with 1 cup coconut oil, 1/2 cup cacao powder and a few tablespoons of liquid sweetener.  Or you could melt a couple of bars of dark chocolate with a bit of milk.  Any way works.

The Enjoy Life chips have a pretty clean ingredient list and are gluten free as well.  They do contain a bit of processed sugar which is why I gave some other options.  I have tried the chips and the coconut oil chocolate.

I chopped one of these homemade peanut butter cups and ate it in my 5 Minute Banana Ice Cream.  OMG!  Best.Thing.Ever.  A healthier dessert option.

If you don’t want to use chocolate chips, you can use my 3 ingredient chocolate recipe in this video.

Looking for more candy recipes?

 

Clean Eating Peanut Butter Cups

Clean Eating Peanut Butter Cups

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Prep Time 10 min Cook Time 20 min Serves 12     adjust servings

It's a healthier version of a Reece's Cup.

Ingredients

  • 1 bag chocolate chips (I used Enjoy Life gluten free and soy free chips)
  • 3/4 cup almond milk
  • Roughly 3/4 cup peanut butter or almond butter

Instructions

  1. Get out a couple of muffin tins and line them with paper or silicone cups. . I used standard sized muffin pans, but the mini cups would work well too.
  2. Using a double boiler, melt the chips and milk in a glass bowl, stirring constantly to get the lumps out. It makes a great arm workout.
  3. Once the chocolate and milk have combined and are smooth, pour a little bit of chocolate in the bottom of each muffin cup.
  4. Place them in the freezer for about 20 minutes to set.
  5. When they are hard, pull them out and put a dollop on nut butter on top of each one.
  6. Fill the remaining cup with chocolate.
  7. Repeat until all the cups are filled.
  8. Place back in the freezer.

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Recipe Notes

I would give them a few hours to set. Actually, I store mine in the freezer as well. I think they would get too soft in the fridge. That’s it!

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110 thoughts to “Clean Eating Peanut Butter Cups (Vegan)”

    1. I am vegan and the Reece's version is not. Also, Reece's brand contains chemicals I would like to avoid. Here is the ingredient list from their webiste. MILK CHOCOLATE (SUGAR; COCOA BUTTER; CHOCOLATE; NONFAT MILK; MILK FAT; LACTOSE; SOY LECITHIN; PGPR, EMULSIFIER); PEANUTS; SUGAR; DEXTROSE; SALT; TBHQ (PRESERVATIVE) My ingredients are real and simple.
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      1. Exactly what we avoid too! We follow the Feingold diet mostly as far as avoiding artificial stuff and preservatives, gluten and dairy free and mostly egg free.
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  7. If I do the coconut oil chocolate version, does it takes as long to melt? I'm assuming I have to melt the coconut oil first anyway, right? And will this work in a regular pot, I'm not cool enough for a double broiler yet ;) And one final thing...will raw milk work? ...we have not hit the vegan route ;) Can you tell I'm desperate to make these?!
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    1. I keep my coconut oil on the counter so it is already liquid. If you are using coconut oil that is solid, it should melt very quickly. What I mean by a double boiler is, boil water in a large pot and set a glass bowl on top. That way the chocolate can melt, but not burn. I am not familiar with raw milk cooking, but I am going to guess it should work. Please report the results if you use it. If you are making the coconut oil chocolate, you will not need milk at all though.
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      1. Raw milk should work just fine! My mother used raw milk for cooking everyday of my life growing up (wasn't I lucky!). She used it the same as processed milk in any recipe.
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  8. You are a genius! How do you come up with these recipes?. We made your no bake chocolate cookie dough yesterday and my daughter and husband loved them! I cant wait to make these
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    1. I used the silicone liners so, no. You don't need to spray with them. I really don't think paper will stick either, but if you are worried, you can spray them.
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      1. You can also make your own "Pam" spray, by putting equal parts oil and water in a spray bottle. Just shake before spraying and if you spray a lot, shake every so often to keep it mixed. I use Grapeseed oil as it has a higher smoke point than most natural oils. :)
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        1. I have an expensive oil mister that I purchased from William Sanoma and it never has work correctly. It's very frustrating to say the least, what type of spray bottle do you use?
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  10. Hi! These sound awesome! When you say a bag of chocolate chip, what size do you mean, or approximately how many cups is that? I buy the really big bag to last me fore a while, so I'm not exactly sure how much to use. thanks :)
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  12. Hi! If you are making these using the chocolate as described above (with the coconut oil) do you still mix it with milk? Thanks! Alyssa
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  15. Is it okay to use cocoa? We have a lot of cocoa products here in the Phils. and we buy the ones with ingredients of whey protein and pure cocoa.
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  16. Do you keep the stove on to keep the chocolate warm while the 1st part of the Cups is in the freezer setting? I've never used this method to melt chocolate so I wasn't sure what to do. Thanks!
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  17. What is the consistency of the chocolate supposed to be after it freezes? I made them but I did add a little powdered sugar to the peanut butter and the chocolate and it came out more like fudge. I was thinking it would harden up.
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      1. I used semi-sweet chocolate chips and milk like the recipe says. Could the powdered sugar I added affected the consistency?
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    2. Just a note to anyone who tries the coconut oil method, the chocolate won't harden like you expect. it will have closer to a fudge texture. But the taste is amazing.
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  18. They did still taste good, the kids gobbled them up! Im definitely going to make them again and see if i do better second time around. Thanks!
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      1. Made them again and this time they came out perfect! After doing a little research I learned about "tempering" chocolate and figured I melted the chocolate at to high of a temperature which explained the consistency I got first time around. So glad I tried again, they were soooo good! Love your recipes!
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  19. I love all your recipes. I am super blond and wish that with this you could do step by step instructions so that i could follow it like post a picture of the chocolate at the bottom than post a picture of the peanut butter. I will have to try this tho looks good
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    1. Thank you! I will keep that in mind next time. My kitchen has terrible lighting and that is one reason I don't usually do step by step photos.
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