If you like Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, you’ll love these easy-to-make Spooktacular Chocolate Covered Peanut Butter Treats. They only require four ingredients and perfectly combine chocolate and peanut butter.
Ingredients - Here's What You'll Need
- Peanut Butter Mixture: I've been making this same peanut butter mixture for more years than I care to remember. I always use unsalted butter, confectioners' sugar, and Jif Extra Crunchy peanut butter.
- Chocolate Coating: I use Ghiradelli Dark Chocolate flavored melting wafers for the chocolate coating.
- Silicone Molds: You can use whatever silicone molds you have on hand. I used a skull, pumpkin, ghost, and living-dead silicone molds.
Making the Peanut Butter Mixture
- I started by beating together room-temperature unsalted butter and the peanut butter until the ingredients were well combined and creamy.
- Then, I added the confectioners’ sugar to the peanut butter mixture. I used an electric mixer to combine the ingredients. A word of caution—the mixture is very crumbly.
That's it for the peanut butter mixture!
Making the Spooktacular Chocolate-Covered Peanut Butter Treats
Once the peanut butter mixture was made, I used my silicone molds to coat the mixture in chocolate.
- First, I melted some of the chocolate wafers in a disposable pastry bag in the microwave. Then, I snipped off the end and piped some chocolate into the molds.
- Next, I used a brush to coat the individual molds thoroughly.
- After the chocolate shell hardened, I pressed some of the peanut butter mixture into the mold.
- I piped more chocolate on top of the peanut butter mixture.
- Finally, I used a brush to spread the chocolate and completely cover the peanut butter mixture.
Once the chocolate hardened, I popped the candy out of the silicone mold.
I repeated this with the other silicone molds.
The Spooktacular Chocolate-Covered Peanut Butter Treats tasted like Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. They are sure to please young and old at your Halloween festivities. Yum!
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Spooktacular Chocolate Covered Peanut Butter Treats
Equipment
- Halloween silicone molds
- Disposable Pastry
- Small brush
Ingredients
- 1 ⅔ cups (16 jar) extra crunchy peanut butter (See Tips 1 and 2)
- ½ cup (8 ounces, 1 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature
- 3 ½ cups (14 ounces) confectioners' sugar
- 3 cups chocolate coating wafers (See Tip 3)
Instructions
- Beat peanut butter and butter in a medium bowl with an electric mixer until smooth. Add confectioners' sugar. Beat on low until all ingredients are combined. The mixture will be crumbly.
- Melt a cup of chocolate wafers in a disposable pastry bag in 1-minute intervals on 50% power. Snip the end of the pastry bag; pipe some chocolate into the mold cavities. Using a small brush, brush the chocolate up the sides to completely cover the cavity. Let harden. Press some peanut butter mixture into the chocolate-lined cavity, not quite to the top—pipe additional chocolate on the peanut butter mixture. Spread chocolate using a small brush, ensuring all edges are completely covered. Let harden.
- Remove the candy from the molds. Store it in an airtight container at room temperature for up to a week.
- Yield: 60 pieces of candy
Tips/Notes
- I used Jif Extra Crunchy peanut butter. You could also use creamy peanut butter.
- You can purchase the peanut butter in 16-ounce jars, so use a whole 16-ounce jar for this recipe.
- I like securing the pastry bag with a rubber band to keep the melted chocolate from oozing out.
Anonymous says
Any how many people does this feed?
c2king says
There's enough of the peanut butter filling to make between 60 and 70.