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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I am certainly a chocolate girl all the way. My friend and I are the same as you and your sister. One of my favorite things about trick-or-treatng is trading candy after. After trading all our candy, it’s pretty obvious whose pile is whose: mine is filled with Reese’s cups, Butterfingers, Hershey’s bars, Twix, Kit-Kat, anything and everything chocolate. Meanwhile, hers is filled with Starburst and Sour Patch and Jolly Ranchers and all the sour and hard candy. I just can’t get the same satisfaction out of eating candy as I do eating chocolate. Reese’s cups are my biggest weakness. I’m usually pretty generous sharing my sweets, but my family knows not to come near my Reese’s! 🙂 I’m excited to give this recipe a try. Thanks!
Katie– these are devilishly delicious! I made them yesterday, but didn’t feel like shaping them into eggs. Instead, I layered them in mini muffin tins to make peanut butter cups. So good!
I’d take chocolate any day– which I normally do. I had a couple servings of the One Minute Chocolate Cake yesterday with strawberries on top. : )
Did they come out of the tins ok? I love that idea. How many did the recipe make?
Katie you are genius!! Those are making my mouth water!
My hubbs & son are going to think they died and are in heaven! This is the one thing they both want for easter!!! Loving the recipes, the step-by-step pics ( they reassure me that I am not failing miserably) and the fact that I can have my totally homemade healthy “cake” and eat it too! I look forward to your posts & am forever in debt to Pintrest for leading me to you!!
I looooooove those Reese’s PB Eggs!!! There’s just something about them that make them taste better than a normal Reeses PB Cup… I think there’s more peanut butter in them. I don’t celebrate Easter but I always tell my friends it’s totally okay to pawn off all their extra or unwanted candy to me 🙂
You read my chocolate filled mind! I love thissss!
That looks absolutely DELICIOUSSSSSSS!!!!
Just a thought, have you ever thought of replicating the infamous Bounty chocolate bars? Coconut + Chocolate+ Healthy options =HEAVEN! I would try to give that a go if i were as good an experimenter as you are, but unfortunately my talents fail me in that field! 🙂
I don’t know what those are… they sound delicious! I’ll have to google! 🙂
I CANT believe how much these taste like the real thing…but BETTER!!! My mom says they’re way better than the commercial kind. Thank you! I’ll be making these for Easter for sure.
Holy ridiculousness! I just made these and they taste SO good and very much like Reese’s (obviously its not milk chocolate so its more of a dark chocolate taste which I prefer anyway ) 🙂 I used the sugar free powered sugar method and they turned out perfect–on my first try. Not hard at all!! I love you and your blog!! Yay for chocolate eggs at Easter!
This are SO good. We made them with a combination of almond and sunbutter (my son is allergic to peanuts). Even my husband, who doesn’t like almond butter, loved them. Thank you!
I’m so glad you liked them!! 🙂
My needs are really simple. I just want to be able to enjoy my family and remember the real reason that we are celebrating Easter.
I am so glad my sister sent me to your website!! I want some of these healthy chocolate peanut butter eggs and some of the chocolate bunnies to share with my family!! :0)
I think you just gave me what I want! Any chocolate works for me or scrapbooking supplies!! You are my hero!
What I want for Easter – bunny chocolate molds:-) I love you recipes. Thank you sooo much!!!
I made these yesterday. I recently gave up white sugar and was super sad when I realized that also meant giving up Reese’s peanut butter Easter eggs, but I figured I was SOL in that dept. 😛 Mine didn’t quite turn out like yours (think I didn’t powder my sugar enough), but they were still pretty delicious! I had my husband try them (told him to close his eyes and tell me what he thought). He said they are almost exactly like the real thing and he even requested more!!! Thank you so much!!!
I was looking in the adds in the news paper and then I saw Reeses Peanut butter Eggs,
my sister reads your blog so I asked her if there was a healthy way to make them, so she took me to here AND THEY LOOK SOO GOOD! thank you for sharing this with us!