Homemade Sugar Free Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups | A healthy dessert recipe made with dark chocolate and peanut butter. It is super easy to prepare at home. They are free from any preservatives with the goodness of all-natural ingredients and also tastier, healthier, and cheaper than the famous Reese brand.

You need only 2 ingredients to made these very tasty and healthy peanut butter cups at home.

About Reese’s peanut butter cups

Reese’s brand Peanut Butter Cups are a popular American candy made of a chocolate cup filled with peanut butter marketed by The Hershey Company. They get their name after the name of their founder, H. B. Reese, a former dairy farmer and shipping foreman for Milton S. Hershey.

Homemade peanut butter cups

These chocolate-coated peanut butter cups are so easy to put together even faster than a trip to the market to get them. You can easily customize them according to your need and taste. There are a lot of different ways you can make these healthy dark chocolate mini peanut butter cups.

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Use dark or milk chocolate to make this candy. For the filling, use peanut butter or replace it with other nut butter like almond or cashew butter. Decorate the finished butter cups with colourful sprinklers, some flakey sea salt, chopped nuts or melted milk or white chocolate according to the occasion they are made for.

Here, in this post, I am sharing a peanut butter cup recipe with dark chocolate(70%) without adding any sugar content. It is a diabetic-friendly dessert recipe high in protein and fibre content.

To melt the chocolate, microwave it for 20-25 seconds or use the double boiler method. We are not adding any sugar here but if want to you can add in the melted chocolate so that it can dissolves easily and mixed mixed well with chocolate.

Making these cups at home is super easy. You can easily make them using a chocolate-making mould or even without a mould. Check the instructions below for both ways of making chocolate peanut butter cups.

Try these homemade peanut butter cups, I bet you will get addicted to them and do not buy them from the store anymore.

Ingredients required for making these healthy chocolate peanut butter cups

Chocolate- dark chocolate with 70% cocoa powder is used which is a healthier option. Please note, that I have used real dark chocolate not the compound. Real chocolate gives a smooth buttery mouth feel as compared to chocolate compounds. But yes, if you want, you can replace it with a chocolate compound too.

Peanut butter– I have used market-bought creamy peanut butter with very less sugar content. You can also use homemade peanut butter instead. If you want, you can also try chunky peanut butter that gives a crunchy peanut bites. Also, you can try it with other nuts butter of your choice.

Roasted peanuts– Crushed roasted peanut are used to make a crunchy chocolate peanut cups. For this, roast the raw peanuts and remove their skin, then crush them lightly. Mix them with the melted chocolate and pour into the mould to set.

Step by step preparation of dark chocolate peanut butter cups recipe

How to melt chocolate

1.Take peanut butter in a small bowl. Microwave it for 10-15 seconds. Transfer it to a piping bag. Make a small cut in the bag and put it aside.

2. Put a saucepan on medium flame filled with water up to its 1/4 mark. 

3. Chop the chocolate and transfer it to a bowl.

4. Once the water starts boiling, put the bowl on the pan and mix the chocolate with the help of a spatula till it melts completely.

5.Take it off the heat and mix the chocolate well for 2-3 minutes. This process is called the tempering of chocolate. It adds a shiny look to the finished chocolate. Let it cool to room temperature.

How to make mini chocolate peanut butter cups with mould

6. Once the chocolate reaches room temperature, Take a mould and pour 1 tsp chocolate into each cavity ( up to its 1/3 mark). Tap the mould a few times to remove any air bubbles and put it in the freezer for 10 minutes to set.

7. After 10 minutes, take out the mould from the freezer and pipe out peanut butter up to 2/3 of each cavity of the mould and now fill the rest of the space with the melted chocolate.

8.Tap the mould a few times to remove any bubbles and put it again in the freezer for 10-15 minutes or till it is set.

9. Once the chocolate sets, demould the chocolate pieces from the mould. Place them in an air-tight container and keep them refrigerated.

How to make peanut butter cups without mould

10. Use small-size muffin paper cups or paper cups used to keep sweets whichever is available easily.

11. Place them in a mini muffin tray or small chutney bowl. Now follow the same procedure as above and refrigerate them till they set nicely. 

How to make peanut butter cups without peanut butter

12. Now in the leftover melted chocolate, add crushed roasted peanuts and mix well.

13. Spoon out this mixture in the different shaped moulds, and spread evenly. Tap the mould a few times and then put it in the freezer for 10-15 minutes or till it sets.

14. Once they are set, demould them and place them in an air-tight container and keep them refrigerated.

Serving suggestions

Serve these mini chocolate peanut butter cups as a sweet or eat them whenever you have a craving to eat something sweet and salty. These are perfect for gifting purposes or to serve your guests.

 Tips and tricks

1. Use milk chocolate or dark chocolate as per your preference.
2. After the chocolate is melted, cool it to room temperature, only after that start making chocolate cups.
3. For the filling, you can replace peanut butter with other nut butter of your choice.
4. To store, refrigerate them in an air-tight container or freeze them in zip lock bags or freezer safe box.

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