Christmas Peanut Butter Cups
The recipe
Christmas Peanut Butter Cups
- Prep20 minutes
- Total20 minutes
- Servings18
Ingredients
- 1 cup peanut butter
- ¼ cup butter softened
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 ½ cups powdered sugar
- ½ pound white almond bark
- ½ pound chocolate almond bark
- Holiday sprinkles
Instructions
- Place 18 cupcake liners in your cupcake tin.
- In a large bowl using an electric mixer combine the peanut butter and butter until well mixed.
- Add the vanilla extract and powdered sugar and mix until well combined.
- The mixture will be crumbly and that is okay.
- In 2 microwave safe bowl melt the different almond barks in the microwave in 30 second intervals until the chocolate is melted is smooth.
- Spoon a little bit of the chocolate in the bottom of each cupcake liner.
- I do half white almond bark and half the cups chocolate.
- Use your spoon to spread the almond bark around the bottom of the cupcake liners and slightly up the sides.
- Roll about 1 – 1-½ tablespoons the peanut butter mixture into a ball and then flatten it out into a disc.
- Place the discs into each chocolate lined cupcake liner.
- Spoon more chocolate over the top of each peanut butter disc.
- Immediately sprinkle with the festive sprinkles.
- Let the peanut butter cups set for an hour at room temperature or 15 minutes in the fridge.
- Serve!