These homemade chocolate peanut butter eggs are easy to make, and they taste just like classic Reese’s peanut butter egg Easter candies!
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Copycat Reese’s chocolate peanut butter eggs
Dear Easter Bunny,
I want just one thing for Easter: a basket filled sky high with these chocolatey, peanut buttery homemade chocolate peanut butter eggs.
Do you think you can do this for me?
I will be your best friend.
In return, I will make you a giant batch of Healthy Carrot Cake Cupcakes.
I will do your laundry for a month. You can keep the other candy.
Peeps shmeeps.
Homemade vs. store bought
The first great reason to make your own chocolate peanut butter eggs at home is to save money.
Just one package of Reese’s king size peanut butter eggs costs close to three dollars at the grocery store. In contrast, you can whip up an entire batch of DIY chocolate eggs for the same price.
And unlike the famous yellow packaged version, these homemade Reese’s peanut butter eggs include dairy free, nut free, vegan, gluten free, added sugar free, low carb, and oil free options, with no artificial flavors.
The best part is that the homemade chocolate eggs taste almost exactly like the ones you know and love from childhood!
It is so simple to make your own at home that you may never want to buy a package of chocolate peanut butter eggs again.
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Ingredients in chocolate peanut butter eggs
You need just four to five ingredients for these chocolate peanut butter Easter eggs.
Peanut butter – Choose your favorite smooth or crunchy peanut butter. Both natural and traditional jars work equally well.
For the best flavor, I recommend either going with a salted nut butter or stirring in about an eighth of a teaspoon of table salt.
Feel free to use a different nut or seed butter instead of peanut. Try almond butter, cashew butter, pistachio butter, Homemade Nutella, or allergy free sunflower butter.
Protein powder – Thicken and bind the candy eggs with your favorite flavored or unsweetened protein powder, oat flour, or almond flour.
Due to the difference in thickness among these three ingredients, you may need to either add more flour or more peanut butter to achieve the correct texture.
You may play around with other flours like spelt or coconut flour. However, I only stand behind the above options I have personally tried in my own kitchen.
Maple syrup – Pure maple syrup and honey or agave add sweetness to the Easter candies. I also include a keto version in the recipe box below, for those who prefer to use a powdered sweetener with no sugar added.
Chocolate – You have two options for the chocolate coating. The first option is to simply use melted dark or semi sweet chocolate chips. The second is to make a healthier chocolate sauce with cocoa powder, coconut oil, and maple syrup or stevia.
Chocolate peanut butter egg recipe video
Above – watch the step by step video.
How to make peanut butter eggs
If your peanut butter is not already soft and easy to stir, gently warm half a cup in the microwave or on the stove top to soften.
In a medium mixing bowl, stir together the softened peanut butter, protein powder or flour, and optional salt.
Mix in the pure maple syrup to form a crumbly dough.
Some nut butters and protein powders are drier than others, so you may need to add more peanut butter if the dough is too dry or more flour if it looks too wet.
Once the mixture achieves a peanut butter cookie dough texture, use your hands to shape oval eggs, rabbits, or other shapes of your choice.
Place the no bake chocolate eggs on a large plate lined with parchment paper or wax paper. Then refrigerate or freeze the plate while you prepare your chocolate sauce.
Chocolate covered peanut butter eggs
To make a chocolate coating using chocolate chips, carefully melt the chips in a microwave safe bowl or with the double boiler method. For a smoother sauce, stir in an optional teaspoon of coconut or vegetable oil after melting.
An alternative chocolate sauce: mix two tablespoons each of unsweetened cocoa powder, coconut oil, and pure maple syrup or honey (or two tablespoons water and stevia to taste) until completely smooth.
Take the peanut butter eggs from the refrigerator and cover them in melted chocolate with a spoon. Or dip each egg into the coating with a fork or a skewer.
Return the plate to the refrigerator or freezer for at least ten minutes. This step will set the chocolate shell.
I recommend refrigerating or freezing leftovers and enjoying them cold. However, you can leave the chocolate eggs out on the counter for a few hours in a cool place if serving at a party or for Easter dessert.
The best Easter candy
Chocolate peanut butter eggs have always been my favorite Easter treat. And it seems I am far from alone.
According to national sales numbers and polling data, Reese’s Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter Eggs are the most popular and highest selling Easter candy.
Year after year, chocolate peanut butter eggs beat out chocolate bunnies, marshmallow Peeps, Cadbury eggs, M&Ms, jelly beans, and Hershey’s Kisses.
Whether store bought or homemade, chocolate eggs are consistently number one in popularity for a good reason.
No one can resist these thick peanut butter candies with their smooth chocolate shell.
Serve a batch at your next Spring or Easter brunch, or keep them all for yourself!
*Pro Tip: This chocolate peanut butter egg recipe is great for other holidays too.
Use mini heart shaped cookie cutters to create chocolate peanut butter hearts for Valentine’s Day, chocolate pumpkins for Halloween, or festive Christmas trees and snowmen in December.
Chocolate Peanut Butter Eggs
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup peanut butter or allergy friendly substitute
- 1/4 cup protein powder or oat flour or almond flour
- 1/8 tsp salt (optional)
- 1 tbsp pure maple syrup (Here's a Keto version)
- 1/2 cup chocolate chips (or the healthy chocolate sauce recipe above)
Instructions
- If peanut butter is not already soft, gently warm it until easy to stir. Combine nut butter, flour, optional salt, and pure maple syrup to form a dough. Depending on the specific ingredients you choose, you may need to add more peanut butter if the mixture is too dry or more flour if too wet. Use your hands to form eggs or shapes of choice. Refrigerate while you carefully melt the chocolate chips or prepare the chocolate sauce. Dip eggs into chocolate, place on a parchment lined plate, and chill to set the coating. These chocolate peanut butter eggs can be left out on the counter in a cool place for a few hours. It is best to store leftovers in the refrigerator or freezer.View Nutrition Facts
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Thank you so much. I love these! And I’m a huge fan of the originals.
My favorite blend so far is:
Splenda – it still works not powdered
Smuckers Creamy Natural PB with the oil drained off of the top
Semi-sweet chocolate chips melted
I found the best way to coat the ‘eggs’ both with both recommendations for the chocolate coating was to put them on wax paper until they froze. Then I would pull them out and slather chocolate on the top and sides like you were decorating a cake. Back into the freezer they go. Wait a little bit and pull them out, flip them over and cover the rest in chocolate.
They lived in the freezer for the short time that they lasted. My husband also declared them to be better than the originals. I will have to try with xylitol next.
I Love this post and most of all I am a die hard Reeses fan. I found this site that sells the pre-made reeses eggs if anyone is interested? They also have a discount coupon. http://www.peanutbutterreeses.com Another cool thing that i noticed is they also sell Reeses Peanut Butter in jars. This could be used for homemade?
Ok, just stop already!!!!! 😀 These are wicked good!
They only made for eggs for me…so next time I’ll quadruple the batch. Haha!
Amazing! Cant stop eating them!
Totally chocolate. Never candy! (Unless they’re Jelly Belly Jelly Beans, Butterscotch, Toffee, or Candy Canes…or soft Peppermint sticks. There’s an idea for a new post. Candy canes!)
You should have seen my Easter basket last year. I basically got rid of all of my candy and ate the chocolate. It was heavenly. I had to dance.
Why do you do this to me? Now I’m going to have to make them this Easter. How dare you! (And thank you!)
You are so brilliant!
These look amazing! Now if only I could get Eatzis to go clean, I would be in heaven!
Is it okay if I mix the PB and the coca things together? ps I also used some kinda breakfast chocolate thing is tht okay?
Can you do a recipe for a healthy Boston Creme Pie? that’s my favorite!
Is there a different kind of oil that can be used? I am allergic to coconut.
Eeep!!! i am SO excited to try these tonight! I am going to have just 1 with something deliciously chocolatey like your cake batter milkshake. Is it sad that the thing I am most excited about in my day is what dessert/ sweet I am going to eat!? I am going to try something from your site every week so that I can cut out the 1/2 block of icky dairy choc I’ve been eating per night for the last year. I used to be so healthy but my diet this year has been a-grade awful! Thanks to you and your site I am going to make a conscious effort to experiement healthier!
Yum! These are so good! I made the chocolate with vegetable oil instead of coconut (which I can’t have), and I was nervous the flavor might be gross, but it was still absolutely delicious!!! Thanks for the great recipe!
Is 1/4 cup pb a typo? It seems like that would make one egg, maybe two. That tiny amount makes 6-9 eggs?
These are far from healthy. 🙁 Powdered sugar? (Or worse, ‘sugar free’ powdered sugar???) I have made this type of thing for years – if you are truly interested in making this ‘healthy’, grind some sunflower, sesame & flax seed… mix with enough PB and honey (or Maple syrup) to keep it together. There are lots of ways to get a nice chocolate covered PB egg/ball without using yucky stuff like refined sugars.
Hi. Did you use store bought pb? Thinking it has to be one without added sugar since ese have 0g of sugar? Thx.
I used the cookie dough recipe without the choc chips, rolled flat into this biscuits and put the peanut butter mix, some with choc chips, some not, then coated in choc mix.. both nice 🙂 Thank you so very much for these recipes, they are fantastic. I have elderly parents with various ailments and not many teeth between them so these work out great 🙂
I’m a huge peanut butter/chocolate fan, but do not like the Reese’s Eggs, but I LOVE Reese’s cups. The chocolate to pb ratio in the eggs seems to be why they taste different, and the overkill of pb in the eggs ruins them for me. If I added a bit more chocolate than your direction, would it make them taste more like the cups instead of the too-rich-for-my-tastebuds eggs?