Peanut Butter Fudge Cups (Reese's copycat)
Peanut butter fudge cups are a Reese's copycat made in minutes and with a filling of only 4 wholesome ingredients. This no bake delicious creamy chocolate peanut butter center is a homemade DIY Reese's cup.
Servings: 12
Calories: 259kcal
Equipment
- cupcake pan
Ingredients
Homemade fudge filling
- 3 tablespoon maple syrup or date paste
- ½ cup peanut butter
- ½ cup almond flour (Or use oat flour to keep the treat nut-free)
- 2 tablespoon cocoa powder
Chocolate shell
- 1 cup chocolate chips
- 2 tablespoon nut butter
- flaky sea salt
Instructions
Homemade fudge filling
- Line a cupcake pan with paper liners.
- Add the four ingredients to a bowl, and use a hand-mixer to mix up dough. If the dough is too sticky to roll out or form, add 1-3 tablespoons more almond flour and stir and knead again.3 tablespoon maple syrup, ½ cup peanut butter, ½ cup almond flour, 2 tablespoon cocoa powder
- Roll out the dough and cut 12 2-inch discs, or finger-form the discs. Set them in the freezer while you make the chocolate shell.
Chocolate shell
- Melt the chocolate chips and peanut butter in a pyrex-measuring cup in the microwave at 1 minute, and then 15 seconds more if need be.1 cup chocolate chips, 2 tablespoon nut butter
- Dollop 1 tablespoon of melted chocolate into each cupcake liner.
- Press a disc into the melted chocolate until a rim of chocolate spills over the edges of the disc.
- Spoon ½ tablespoon of chocolate on the top of each disc and spread it with the back of a spoon to be sure each disc is fulling covered.
- Refrigerate for one hour or freeze for 10 minutes.
- Sprinkle with salt and enjoy.flaky sea salt
Storage
- The cups last two weeks refrigerated in a sealed container and up to three months frozen.
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Notes
You can swap maple syrup for date syrup. Or you can use date paste made from blending fresh dates and water. Here is my date paste recipe.
Nutrition
Calories: 259kcal | Carbohydrates: 25g | Protein: 5g | Fat: 19g | Saturated Fat: 8g | Sodium: 1mg | Potassium: 32mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 17g | Vitamin A: 6IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 63mg | Iron: 3mg
