If you want a rich, decadent, chocolatey, vegan dessert*, then THIS IS IT. Vegan Peanut Butter Cups.
Ingredients
* 1/2 cup of peanut butter
* 2 Tbsp. Coconut Flour
* 1 Tbsp. Maple Syrup
* 8 oz. Bittersweet Chocolate* (needs to be vegan chocolate for the dessert to be vegan. Fine if not.)
* 1 Tbsp. Coconut Oil
Directions:
* Mix the peanut butter, coconut flour, and maple syrup all together
Lots of peanut butter.
Coconut flour, peanut butter, and maple syrup
Love, Shine, Bliss, Happy, Amaze! Indeed! Aloha Chocolate (SO GOOD)
mixture. Basically, tastes like peanut butter.
(ghetto) double boiler
* In a double boiler, melt the coconut oil and chocolate (8 ounces is almost 3 full chocolate bars).
melt chocolate
Action shot.
* Place half the chocolate in greased muffin tins (or molds, if you are a fancy chef).
chocolate in tins
Smile.
* Put in freezer for 10 minutes or so, so that the chocolate hardens.
No judgement about my freezer. Yes, “we” (aka my children) eat mini pizzas, waffles, and chicken nuggets. (Also, top right corner: Wandering Goat coffee from Eugene, sent monthly to us by my wonderful parents. CHECK THEM OUT. BEST COFFEE EVER).
frozen chocolate, first layer
* Place the peanut butter mixture on top of the frozen chocolate layer. Don’t add too much (like I did). Rather, a small dollup in the center of the chocolate tin.
add peanut butter (I was overzealous and added too much. Don’t do what I did).
* Then, add the remaining chocolate on top of the peanut butter.
add more chocolate
* Place back in freezer to harden for the last time.
* Take out of freezer, and using knife, take out of the tins.
tada
Mine, although incredibly delicious, turned out to be more of a chocolate / peanut butter sandwich, rather than a cup. Less peanut butter would have allowed the second layer of chocolate to form more of a mold around it.
heaven
Store in the fridge
Ken and I like to split them for dessert — they are messy, they are rich, but they are also OH SO GOOD. So make ’em. Hope you have a great weekend! Happy March!
Love this idea.. seems simple enough for me!
Okay Making this weekend.. along with your 2 ingredient pancakes I stumbled upon 🙂
All your recipe’s are so amazing, please adopt me so I can eat these more often!!!
Love peanut butter! I bet these are great for my high protein diet!!
Cool seems simple …maybe i’ll stop by chef central for a candy mold and try it….love the ghetto double boiler …and baby girl is is so cute and grown!
take care- enjoy yr wkend!
OMG how good do these look! I have slowly but surely been trying to swap out dairy foods in my life for vegan options and this one seems like an easy switch! Yum! Great post 😉
Xoxo
Annie
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