Homemade Peanut Butter Cups Makes around 4 dozen 1 cup of creamy unsalted peanut butter 4 tablespoons of unsalted butter, softened 1/3 cup light brown sugar 3/4 cup of powdered sugar 1 teaspoon of coarse sea salt (or more, to taste; I used Sichuan salt) 32 ounces of high-quality chocolate (use milk chocolate if you really want to mimic the classic flavor) Homemade Peanut Butter Cups on Food52 Mix together peanut butter, butter, sugars, and salt in a bowl. Taste, then add more salt if needed. Roughly chop chocolate, then melt it in a heavy-bottomed saucepan over low heat on the stove top (or in 30-second increments in the microwave, stirring in between) until smooth. Transfer half to a heatproof measuring cup. Arrange mini cupcake wrappers on a baking sheet. Pour just enough chocolate in to fill the bottom of the wrapper about 1/8 inch. Gently lift and drop the tray once or twice to flatten out the chocolate, then place in the fridge for 10 minutes. While the chocolate is chilling, begin shaping heaping teaspoons of peanut butter filling into discs about the diameter of a quarter, and setting them aside on parchment paper. Remove the chilled chocolate from the fridge, then place each peanut butter disc into a cupcake wrapper. Homemade Peanut Butter Cups on Food52 Transfer the remaining chocolate to your heatproof measuring cup. (If it isnt as warm or pourable as youd like, reheat it for a moment or two on the stove top, or for 10 to 15 seconds in the microwave.) Pour into cupcake wrappers until peanut butter discs are just covered. Once youve covered all of them, gently lift and drop the tray again to even out the chocolate, then add more to the wrappers as needed. Sprinkle the tops with a little extra coarse sea salt if you like, then place the tray in the fridge for 30 minutes. Eat them straight from the fridge (if youre a chilled chocolate guy or gal, like me), or let them soften for about 5 minutes at room temperature.
Posted on: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 15:07:14 +0000
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