Where were these when I was growing up? Yes, there were Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, but these are way better. They are, uh, bigger and made with only four ingredients. These peanut butter cups layered with melted chocolate, a peanut butter-graham cracker filling, and another luscious layer of semi-sweet chocolate.
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What are peanut butter cups?
The Reese’s Peanut Butter cups were invented in 1928 and released on November 15th, 1928. Peanut butter cups were invented by H.B. Reese, who worked at developing various types of candy and open candy shops. Peanut butter cups have a long nostalgic history in American culture.
Ingredients to make these 4 Ingredient Peanut Butter Cups:
- Graham Crackers: It’s best to use the original flavor or plain graham crackers by Nabisco.
- Creamy peanut butter: For this recipe, don’t use unsweetened natural peanut butter. Use brands such as creamy Skippy or Jiffy peanut butter.
- Powdered sugar: Powdered sugar is key because it not only adds the sweet, it also stabilizes the filling making the peanut butter filling fudgy.
- Milk, dark or semi-sweet chocolate chips: Use whichever level of sweet or bitterness of chocolate you prefer. Dark chocolate would also be a yummy choice.
How to melt chocolate
There are two ways to melt chocolate chips. Either way is perfectly fine and it all depends on your preferences.
Double boiler method: Fill a 4-quart pot with water less than halfway and bring to a light boil. Place a heat-safe bowl on top of the saucepot without the bowl touching the water. Simply stir with a rubber spatula or wooden spoon until the chocolate is completely melted, becoming runny and loose. The heat from the water will warm the bottom of the bowl and melt the chocolate.
Microwave method: Place a microwave-safe bowl filled with chocolate chips in the microwave and heat in 20-second intervals, After 20 seconds, stir with a rubber spatula or a wooden spoon until the chocolate chip has completely melted. Becoming loose and runny.
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4 Ingredient Peanut Butter Cups
- Total Time: 1 Hour, 16 Minutes
- Yield: 18 Peanut Butter Cups 1x
Description
Peanut butter cups made with graham crackers, peanut butter, chocolate and confectioners’ sugar.
Ingredients
- 1 sleeve graham crackers, about 10 crackers
- 1 1/2 cups creamy peanut butter
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 3 cups of milk chocolate chips
Instructions
Peanut butter filling
- Line two muffin pans with cupcake papers. Set aside.
- Finely crush up the graham crackers in a mixing bowl.
- Add the powdered sugar to the crushed graham crackers.
- Place the peanut butter in a microwave-safe bowl, and heat for about 30 seconds, until the peanut butter has become loose. Add the melted peanut butter to the graham crackers and powdered sugar, and mix until well combined. Set aside.
Melt the chocolate
- Pour the chocolate chip into a microwave-safe bowl, and microwave in 20-second intervals, stirring each time until the chocolate has melted and becomes loose. Do not overheat. The consistency should be thick and will run off a spoon.
The layers
- For the first layer, add a heaping teaspoon to the liners and carefully spread it out.
- Next, add a heaping tablespoon of the peanut butter mixture. Careful not to spread it too wide. You will want to leave a reservoir around the peanut butter for the top layer of melted chocolate to spread into.
- Next, add a heaping teaspoon of the melted chocolate over the top and gently spread side to side.
- Refrigerate until completely set, at least one hour.
Notes
You can use any chocolate you wish. Try this recipe with dark chocolate and even white chocolate too!
When heating the chocolate, be sure not to overheat because the chocolate with seize up. If the melted chocolate begins to firm up, you can place it back in the microwave for about 1-20 seconds to loosen it back up.
- Prep Time: 1 Hour ,15 minutes
- Cook Time: 1 Minute
Keywords: peanut butter cup, chocolate, candy, sweet, rich
Oh how lovely. Bigger is definitely better when you’re talking about peanut butter and chocolate!!
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Peanut butter cups are one of my all-time favorite treats. I’ve been known to impulse buy a pack in the grocery checkout line and snarf them down in the car before leaving the parking lot. I’ve never made my own, though…but these? Oh yea!
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I have always had issues melting chocolate for candies. You make it sound so easy! I have to try this!
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Yum!! Those butter cups look so delicious! Can’t wait to try them out! Thanks for sharing!
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I love peanut butter cups but never tried making my own thanks for this recipe. I will try 🙂
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With a house full of pb lovers, these would not last long. These would also be a great addition to holiday baking platters!
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These look wonderful and don’t actually sound that complicated. I’m thinking that I substitute Digestive biscuits for the graham crackers (we don’t have those here). My son is going to love these 🙂
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I love Reece cups! I’ve never tried making them with graham wafers before though, that’s so neat. I can’t wait to try them next time we have peanut butter. My husband is allergic so it’s a rarity ?.
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I made these today! The whole family enjoyed them! Thank you so much for this!
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