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.
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!
Katie, this is absolutly stunning! I never had thought of doing it that way 🙂 Who needs a chocolate cup if you can have a peanut butter one instead. Perfect!
Thank you so much for this great recipe. I will try it myself 🙂
Greetings from Germany. I’m seriously obsessed with your blog!
Have a great weekend 🙂
Oh myyy! That looks absolutely delicious! Must try this sometime. That ‘best eaten before dinner’ part is what makes it better!
Wait, you cant be serious
these need to be in my mouth ASAP 🙂
I love this idea! I don’t have peanut butter powder, so is there a way to use regular peanut butter instead?
Another commenter tried it. Here is her comment:
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.
I just made the modified version and it was a success! After I graduate and become a teacher, I’ll have to make these for my students on opposite day 🙂
Hey Katie! Speaking of chocolate and pb, guess what I did?
I was browsing your recipes looking for something sweet to make and settled on the chocolate pb fudge babies. I decided to try stuffing them with your Reese’s eggs filing and make a sort of raw Reese’s pb cup, along the lines of your raw Oreos. If I say so myself, it worked really well! They are delicious! And the real Reese pb cups are one of my favourite things so I’m loving the healthy alternatives.
I’m just loving your blog. I discovered it last winter and I make your recipes all the time. Thanks for sharing all your wonderful ideas!
What’s not to like about these. Peanut Butter and Chocolate; what’s not to like!
Elegantly simple. Simply elegant. And pretty damn desirable.
Hi Katie! This recipe is absolutely marvelous! I, too, am a PB fanatic! I was wondering, do I measure the chocolate chips BEFORE melting or AFTER? Would the gram measurements be the same? Also, did you use PB2 or Betty Lou’s? And… Completely unrelated, but, do you take a B12 supplement? My mom and I are vegan, and are looking for a good VEGAN B12 supplement. If you do take one, could I ask which?
I’m sorry this is such a long comment, but you almost always reply to me on Twitter. That means the world to me! It always makes my day a million times better! I REALLY hope that you reply, because it would help tremendously! 😀
After melting. I’ve actually tried the recipe with both pb2 and betty lous.
And yes, I take a b12 supplement. It’s Bluebonnet brand.
Thanks Katie! I’ll look into that brand! 🙂