Opposite Day.
A day when no means yes, naptime is play time, and dessert comes before dinner.
We celebrated Opposite Day once every year when I was in preschool: we wore our pajamas to class, greeted each other by saying goodbye, and circle time became square time. We tried to sing the ABCs backwards, and then all of the students got a chance to be the teachers (yikes). Why the day has such an indelible impression on me that I can remember so vividly all the way back to preschool, I really don’t know. Must’ve been the dessert-before-dinner thing.
Who could forget that?
What’s the opposite of a chocolate peanut butter cup? That would be a peanut butter chocolate cup: a thick coat of peanut butter surrounding a chocolate center.
Best eaten before dinner.
Inside Out Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups
Adapted from Homemade Peanut Butter Chips
- Level 1/2 cup powdered peanut butter or PB2 (48g)
- 1/4 cup virgin coconut oil or cacao butter, melted (40g)
- 4 tsp pure maple syrup (20g)
- heaping 2 tbsp melted semi-sweet chocolate of choice, or Sugar-Free Chocolate (32g)
- mini cupcake liners or candy molds
Combine first three ingredients in a bowl, and stir well to form a paste. Smooth a little under 1 tsp into each of ten mini cupcake liners, going up the sides just a bit. (I put the cupcake liners into a mini muffin tin.) Freeze 10 minutes. Then divide the chocolate evenly among the liners and freeze again. Finally, top with remaining peanut butter paste. Freeze again until solid. If using coconut oil, keep these peanut butter cups refrigerated or frozen. With cacao butter, the candies can stay out at room temp. (I much prefer coconut version, but cacao butter works if you have an allergy.)
Click for: Peanut Butter Cup Nutrition Facts
Question of the day:
Do you remember preschool or kindergarten?
I think one of my favorite preschool activities was making junk art out of cereal boxes, milk cartons, and toilet paper rolls. But I also really liked the scented markers… I would get the markers a little too close, and they often sent me home with a rainbow nose. Not sure my mom was all too happy about that.
Link of the Day: 8 Healthy Fathers Day Recipes.
Wow, these are really cool, I wonder what other desserts could be turned inside out. Apple pie, cake?
But on another note, You mentioned in your donut post that you noticed your blog lacked an “international flair” and you wanted to include more foreign desserts, yet the only foreign one I see on here is like Tiramisu fudge. I don’t mean to press you or anything, but I’m just wondering.
It usually takes me a long time to develop, photoshoot, write, and finally post recipes. Like this recipe… I think I did the photoshoot for it back in January! So I definitely did get some international recipes… I just need to post them. The ones that are ready to go (in other words, what you might see on the blog sometime in the next few months) are Tiramisu, flan, Nanimo bars, Fondue… those are the recipes so far 🙂
“Best eaten before dinner.” I like your thinking! I also like the idea of these and the fact that there are no bananas in these means I can eat them. Yeah!
As for kindergarten…… when I would have gone back in the 50’s my mother didn’t think it was necessary so I didn’t get to go. But back then it wasn’t what it is today, it was more like a big play date. She did send my 9 following brothers and sisters, when their turns came — wonder why?? 🙂
Thanks for posting these treats! I shall make up a batch or two after I put in a big batch of baked oatmeal. Yum on both accounts!!
Love these!
Especially since nut butter is way better than the chocolate in my opinion. I usually go for almond butter cups, since I’m not a huge PB fan.
I do like peanut flour though.
I remember both pre-school and kindergarten. Oh those good ol’ days. Kind of miss being a kid sometimes!
Hi Katie,
*Gulp* sums up my feelings to these inside our pb cups.
I also wanted to let you know that I have made the no bake oreo cookie pie, and it is soooo good and sooooo easy to make. I have made it twice now and my family have said that I must make it again and again. Whoa! 🙂
Love this! Definitely best eaten before dinner. That way you can have it twice! 😉
While I remember preschool, I definitely do not remember an opposite day . . . we did, however, have a 100 day where everyone brought 100 of something to school. Hmmm, 100 peanut butter chocolate cups? 🙂
My thought when I read this title: YESSSS.
I remember lots of random things about preschool and kindergarten. Once in kindergarten during crafts I cut some of my hair. When my teacher found the hair on the floor she got really mad and held it up to all of our heads until she found out whose it was. I laugh about it now, but then I was soooo embarrassed!
Can I make these with regular peanut butter? I was about to make them but didn’t realize that I needed powdered peanut butter. I’ve never even heard of it.
I’m trying it right now with regular peanut butter (had to play around a bit). I’ll let you know if I have any success =) The first layer is freezing right now.
Okay, granted I can’t compare to the original recipe, but I’d say I had success with my modified version =) Hope it’s okay that I played around, Katie!
I used 6T regular peanut butter (the kind that’s just peanuts) and used 2T of coconut oil instead of 1/4C figuring the fat from the PB would make it for it. I’d say it was a total success. Reminded me of a recipe for vegan “fudge” that another blogger makes that is really more like a PB cup.
These sound like a lot of fun. Since they are so low in calories, I could have one of these plus something else to give me protein. :-))
To answer your question, I didn’t go to pre-school, but I do remember a couple of things from kindergarten. Put simply, I remember roll call in the morning, which was always painful for me because I was too shy and afraid to say ‘good morning’ back to the teacher. I also have vague memory of a makeshift classroom cut out of the cafeteria. Not a great memory, but a memory nevertheless…
Aw, junk art! Don’t forget christmas ornaments plastered with tacky glitter glue and dry macaroni noodles. So artsy. These peanut butter chocolate cups look awesome. This whole post reminds me of the Spongebob episode where he and Patrick celebrate Opposite Day. Psshhh, who needs preschool to eat dessert before dinner? (I hear it’s better for digestion, anyway.)
I have extremely vivid memories of kindergarten. There was one book in particular I loved that we could take out on loan; it had a plastic tray of cookies that you would use as props to go along with the story. Clearly my love for things sweet hasn’t changed!
And this recipe looks great Katie- I can’t believe I used to pass off chocolate-and-peanut-butter combinations!
I actually like the old layout of your blog more than this one
KATIE!
YOU are amazing! These look amazing!!! I love your beautiful posts! Thank you for your awesome culinary and literary creativity!!! Have a great weekend!
With love,
Colleen 🙂
these look awesome. I might def try them this weekend when I have a little down time!
Katie, these look delicious! I made your healthy faux Reeses and my entire family loved them! Keep in mind these are people who subsist primarily on Kraft mac and cheese and take out pad thai. I’m an absolute peanut butter fiend, so I’m excited to try these out. You should try making a healthy cookie butter/biscoff spread! (..Is it even possible to make spreadable cookies healthy???) 🙂
These are such an adorable idea! (And help even out the chocolate-to-peanut-butter ratio of typical Reese’s.) I still remember my first day of kindergarten. We made Stop and Go signs out of construction paper and popsicle sticks, and I wanted to make a second set at home that afternoon. I’m pretty sure my mom had to go to Michael’s that day to buy me popsicle sticks… Oops!