Peanut Butter Cups

Chocolate and peanut butter is a great combo, just like peanut butter and jelly. With Peanut Butter and Co as the sponsor of my cycling team, I have a lot of delicious peanut butters to try in cooking. This is one of my favorite dessert recipes and it is very easy to make.

Get out your ingredients:

Your favorite peanut
butter - about 16 teaspoons
Chocolate morsels or
melting chocolate – 16 oz
Confectioner sugar (optional)
Mini paper muffin cups
*1 16oz bag of chocolate morsels will make about 16 peanut butter cups

1. Set up your double boiler
2. Put the chocolate morsels in the top part of your double boiler and turn the heat on low. It will take about 5 minutes to melt the chocolate. Be careful, as any steam or moisture may cause the melted chocolate to harden.
3. In the meantime set the paper cups on a flat plate or pan
4. Periodically stir the chocolate until it is like chocolate syrup

5. Next spoon the melted chocolate into the paper cups. Fill the cups about 1/3 of the way up
6. Optional: If you want to make your peanut butter filling less creamy, mix about 2 parts peanut butter with 1 part confectioner sugar. You can mix in more sugar to get the consistency you like.
7. Take about 1 teaspoon of peanut butter and place it on top of the chocolate you already poured into the paper cup. I used 4 types of peanut butter: Dark Chocolate Dreams, White Chocolate Wonderful, The Bee's Knees and Crunch Time.
8. Then take the remaining chocolate and fill up the paper cups to cover the peanut butter.
9. Place the plate of peanut butter cups into the refrigerator. Wait about 10 minutes for the cups to settle and harden.
10. EAT and ENJOY