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.
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Huh! Great recipe. I like the twist.
Hey girl!
These LOOK bomb! I want them ALL. What gave you this idea? Do you prefer regular peanut butter cups or these ones?!
Yum, Yum, Yum!
LP <3
I tried Oatmeal with a fork’s version of these and they were incredible!! Never thought to add peanut flour though! :o)
What would happen if you used regular coconut oil instead of extra virgin? I like extra virgin coconut oil, but not really in the candy versions of recipes. Just wondering! Thank you! 🙂 🙂
Peanut Butter is one of my all time favorite things. My husband sometimes tells me that I need to go to counseling for my addiction :/ But I think I have it under control 🙂 I often melt up some chocolate and put peanut butter in it for a late night treat. I can’t wait to try this! It looks so good! Maybe I should get started now…
These sound amazing! Chocolate and peanut butter are the perfect pair however you combine them! One of the strangest parts of kindergarten that I remember is my mom always sending pasta salad for lunch. Her homemade pasta salad is still one of my favorites.
I love your stuff, Katie! But everytime I try to make your peanut butter cup recipes it’s way too oily and doesn’t set! I even reduced the coconut oil. Super weird huh?
Do you mean this recipe?
Why do you MUCH prefer the coconut oil to the cacao butter? What is the difference in flavor, texture etc?
Hi Katie,
Just a question? What is powdered peanut butter??
Where do you get that? I’m from Winnipeg, MB Canada.
Sorry, I don’t know where you’d get it in Canada. Maybe email either Betty Lou’s http://www.bettylousinc.com/ or Bell Plantation http://www.bellplantation.com/
and ask?
These look amazing! Peanut butter is chocolate’s #1 competitor in my book!