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.)
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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.
Yes, I remember Kindergarten! I had a great teacher who dressed like he was transported from the 80’s. I didn’t know that then, I just knew he had long hair, and I liked how he wore bright shirts. 😀
Utter genius. And oh so easy. Thanks for the awesome idea Katie!
I remember a less happy Opposite Day, where you’d say something like “Hey! I think you’re cute!” “You do?” “NO HAHAHA IT’S OPPOSITE DAY!!!” …I was always on the receiving end of THAT, ugh 🙁
These cups are the opposite of my opposite days though 🙂 So tasty!
How about inside out oreos? That would be totally awesome!
First off – Katie I love your recipes and is no reflection on you at all, but I just thought I’d inform everyone:
PB2 and powdered peanut butter is a scary food for a few reasons. It’s not whole real food, the process to make it extracts almost all of the essential monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats, leaching the vitamin E content which is fat soluble, therefore reducing the nutritional content of the whole food. More importantly, it’s not organic and is full toxic pesticides (sprayed on peanut crops), and aflatoxin.
I recommend only using raw, organic valencia peanuts and peanut butter. It’s lower on harmful myotoxins (noticed I said low, not absent).
Just a thought.
Hi Riana,
The Betty Lou’s one is organic: http://www.bettylousinc.com/products_detail.php?id=287&ref=9
I definitely agree that if you want peanut butter, you’re best off using real peanut butter. I just sometimes (very rarely… I think only 2 of my recipes call for the stuff) use the powder to achieve the proper texture in recipes. For example, I tried the homemade peanut butter chips with real peanut butter first, but they came out gummy. In any case, thanks for the heads up. I don’t really have any plans for more powdered pb recipes at the moment. 🙂
Katie these are brilliant! I’m going to make some today! I’ve never tried an inside out Reese’s before, but they sound delicious. I mean, why wouldn’t they be good? It’s peanut butter and chocolate! 😉
My preschool and kindergarten years are a blur. In preschool, I remember having a certain letter and that would be the theme for the day. And the class “bunny” which was actually a stuffed animal. ;P But that’s about it, really…
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! 😉