What is in reeses peanut butter cups

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This homemade Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups recipe will satisfy your peanut butter cravings in just minutes, and they taste just like the real thing!

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1. Ingredients in Homemade Peanut Butter Cups
2. How to make these treats look like Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
3. A Quicker Method for Homemade Reese’s PB Cups
4. Frequently Asked Questions About Homemade Peanut Butter Cups
5. More Reese’s Recipes
6. Homemade Reeses Peanut Butter Cups Recipe

We love peanut butter cups in our family, and take them quite seriously. This homemade Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups recipe came from our grandma, who made them for us for years. The layer of peanut butter filling has the same creamy texture as the candy you buy at the store, with rich, sweet chocolate on the outside. But these taste even better, because they’re homemade! They’re perfect as a special Halloween treat, or to keep on hand in the freezer for when your sweet tooth hits.

Ingredients in Homemade Peanut Butter Cups

This delicious, no-bake treat only needs six pantry ingredients. You’ll find yourself making these all the time! Here’s what you need:

• Graham crackers – use a food processor to crush the crackers into fine crumbs.
• Powdered sugar – make sure to sift the powdered sugar before adding to the ingredients.
• Butter – use unsalted butter to better control the sodium in the recipe.
• Peanut butter – Both creamy or crunchy nut butter works great. 
• Chocolate chips – you can use any kind of chocolate you like: semi-sweet, dark chocolate, milk chocolate, even white chocolate chips would be delicious.

How to make these treats look like Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups

They may look fancy, but making these into cute cups couldn’t be easier.

• Place cupcake liners into a mini cupcake pan, or regular cupcake pan, depending on how large you want your homemade peanut butter cups.
• Using a paint brush (I like to use a flat brush, about an inch or so wide) paint melted chocolate on the inside of each cupcake liner until about halfway up.
• Place them in the refrigerator to cool.
• Then, put a ball of peanut butter cup mixture into each cup (see recipe for instructions below) and top with more melted chocolate.
• The amount of chocolate needed tends to vary each time, so keep a few extra chocolate chips on hand if you need a bit more.

A Quicker Method for Homemade Reese’s PB Cups

If you don’t have a lot of time or patience to create the “cups” in the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, you can make things a bit easier on your self. Here’s how:

1. You can make these “fondue” or “buckeye” style by first rolling the peanut butter mixture into balls.
2. Next, dip them directly into the melted chocolate.
3. Then, place them on wax paper to cool and harden. You will get the exact same taste and it’ll only take you about five minutes!

Frequently Asked Questions About Homemade Peanut Butter Cups

Can I use something other than chocolate chips for the candy coating?

While this homemade peanut butter cups recipe calls for chocolate chips, you can use chocolate melts instead. It won’t be quite as soft as the chocolate on the store-bought brand, but they’ll still taste chocolatey and delicious!

Do Homemade Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups Need to Be Refrigerated?

Once the chocolate shell has hardened, there is no need to refrigerate these peanut butter cups. You can store them at room temperature until ready to eat! But, if you’re like me and you happen to love cold chocolate, pop a few in the refrigerator or freezer. Perhaps hide them behind the veggies so nobody but you knows they’re there!

Can I use other kinds of nut butter in this recipe?

Yes! Almond butter or cashew butter are delicious options for this homemade treat.

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• Chocolate Peanut Butter Fudge Swirl – This fudge is so easy to make and it is incredibly delicious! It tasted like a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup in fudge form.
• Peanut Butter Cup Rice Krispie Treats – It’s so easy to turn a traditional Rice Krispie Treats into Peanut Butter Cup Rice Krispie Treats. Creamy peanut butter and mini Reese’s cups make it an extra special treat!
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Homemade Reeses Peanut Butter Cups

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This homemade Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups recipe will satisfy your peanut butter cravings in just minutes, and they taste just like the real thing!

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Prep Time 15 mins

Cook Time 0 mins

Refrigerate 30 mins

Total Time 45 mins

Course candy

Cuisine American

Servings 18

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Ingredients

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• ▢3/4 cup graham crackers crushed
• ▢1 cup powdered sugar
• ▢6 tablespoons butter
• ▢9 ounces peanut butter either creamy or crunchy is fine
• ▢4 tablespoons butter divided
• ▢12 ounces semi-sweet chocolate chips you may want to have a little extra on hand just in case

Instructions

• In a medium-sized bowl, combine graham cracker crumbs and powdered sugar until well blended. Set aside.

  

• In a microwave-safe measuring cup, heat 6 Tablespoons of butter and peanut butter together in microwave for 15 second increments until melted. Stir until combined and pour over graham cracker mixture. Continue to stir until well combined. Set aside.

  

• Melt half of the chocolate chips with 2 tablespoons of butter in a microwave safe bowl in the microwave for 15 second increments (stirring each time) until chocolate is melted.

  

• Place cupcake liners in cupcake tin (mini or regular depending on what size peanut butter cups you want to make– makes about 36 mini cups or 18 full-sized cups).

  

• Using a paint brush (I used a flat brush about 1/2" wide), "paint" each cupcake liner with melted chocolate. Be sure to evenly coat the bottom and half way up each cup (if using the "mini" cupcake liners). If you are using full-size cupcake liners paint about ⅓ of the way up each cup.Tip: You don't need to paint the chocolate super thick, just enough so you don't see any of the liner underneath.Place in the refrigerator to cool for about 5 minutes or until chocolate hardens.

  

• Press about 1 teaspoon of graham cracker mixture in each mini cup (about 1 Tablespoon for regular-sized cups) making sure the top is somewhat flat (it doesn't need to be perfect). Just make sure you don't go above where you "painted" the chocolate on the cup.

  

• Add remaining chocolate chips to remaining melted chocolate in the microwave-safe bowl and melt together with remaining 2 tablespoons butter (stirring every 15 seconds).Spoon a little chocolate over each peanut butter cup until the peanut butter filling is completely covered (you can lightly shake or tap the cupcake pan to even out the chocolate over the filling). You want the top of the peanut butter cup to look completely flat.

  What is the peanut butter in Reese's made of?

  Ingredients Roasted Peanuts, Sugar, Contains 2% or Less of: Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil (Rapeseed, Cottonseed, and Soybean Oils), Salt, Peanut Oil, Monoglycerides, Molasses, Cornstarch.

  What is inside a Reese's peanut butter Cup?

  How are REESE'S peanut butter cups made? REESE'S peanut butter cups begin with roasting fresh peanuts for REESE'S one-of-a-kind peanut butter. The peanut butter and milk chocolate are then dropped and pressed into a mold that gives REESE'S cups their iconic shape.

  Is Reese's Cups real chocolate?

  The candies, which as you may know come in orange, yellow, and brown colors, are only peanut butter-flavored. Chocolate is NOT an ingredient, despite sharing a name with the chocolate peanut butter cups, and the brown color, which I guess we all just assumed meant they were chocolate?!

  Is the peanut butter in Reeses real?

  Yes. There is real peanut butter in all reese's products. However, it is diluted/mixed with other ingredients.