Edit:
There is now a pumpkin board on the Chocolate Covered Katie Pinterest Page!
Some things in life are obvious.
Chocolate goes well with peanut butter? Obvious. Chocolate goes well with pumpkin? Obvious. Chocolate goes well with pretty much anything?
Obviously obvious.
So what happens when you combine all three—pumpkin, chocolate, and peanut butter—together into one Halloween-themed Reeses cup?
The answer should be obvious.
If it isn’t, hopefully all of these pictures can help to clarify.
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Pumpkin Pie Peanut Butter Cups
- 1/4 cup plus 1 tbsp cocoa powder (25g)
- 2 tbsp maple syrup, agave, or honey OR vanilla stevia drops to taste
- 1/4 cup liquid virgin coconut oil (Or omit these first three ingredients and simply melt 1/2 cup chocolate chips instead.) (50g)
- 2 tbsp pumpkin puree or sweet potato (30g)
- 2 tbsp peanut butter (You might be able to sub 2 more tbsp pumpkin for a lower-fat version, but I haven’t tried it. Feel free to sub another nut butter in place of the peanut butter.) (30g)
- 1/8 tsp cinnamon, and optional pinch pumpkin pie spice
Stir first three ingredients together until it makes a sauce. (If using the stevia version, you might want to add a little extra oil for a thinner consistency) Fill just the very bottoms of cupcake liners, mini cupcake liners, or candy molds with chocolate, reserving the rest. Then freeze 8-10 minutes. Meanwhile, combine all other ingredients and stir to form a paste. (If you use refrigerated peanut butter, it’s best to heat the nut butter a bit first, so it’ll mix more easily.) Take liners from freezer and top each with filling (1 teaspoon in each of ten, if using mini cupcake liners). Cover with more chocolate, and freeze until solid. (You won’t use all the chocolate, but I’m sure you can find yummy ways to use the extra…) Unless you’ve used the non-coconut version, it’s best to keep these in the freezer.
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And I obviously have a tiny obsession with homemade Reeses peanut butter cups…
    
    
Mounds Bar Reeses                       Cake Batter Reeses                     Chocolate Monkey Bites
Obviously.
What’s your favorite Halloween candy?
Made these for my ever-so-picky family and they loved them! Thanks for the great recipe!
These look absolutely amazing!!!
Katie i love you so much.
Iim on an allergen free diet (no wheat, soy, dairy, eggs, nuts, or fish) and i made these tonight with sunflower seed butter and they were pure bliss. Thank you for the heavenly moments i shared with these amazing little allergen free reeses. Definitely the best recipe I’ve found so far for my diet and i cant wait to see what else i can find on your blog!
Honestly! This is the best healthy dessert blog I have ever come across. I live in the UK and struggled to find recipes for ‘clean’ pancakes etc. You now have me spoilt for choice! haha! Thank you soo much!
Katie, thank you, thank you, thank you.
I have become my husbands hero after making these! I have already made them twice and immediately went shopping for ingredients to make about 10 other of your recipes.
One question, why do you have the nutritional info on separate pages? As a diabetic reader it would be a lot easier to have everything on one page, making it easy to quickly scan and determine if it fits dietary rules 🙂
Also, congrats on the new book deal. I am look forward to adding it to my collection.
thank you so much! I am newly (just over a year) allergic to peanuts but i grew up on Reeses and nearly cried when i was told i cant have them anymore. Now i can make my own (much healthier which is awesome) version with my fake peanut butter (soy butter just sounds really weird to me)!
OMG I just made these and they taste AMAZING! The chocolate tasted like ultra rich dark chocolate truffles and melts in your mouth
How weird is it that I actually dreamed about pumpkin peanut butter reese’s cups, without ever hearing or knowing about it. It’s a sign that I need to make these. And these are perfect, thank you!
Girl, you are like my junk-food soulmate. Chocolate & peanut butter all the way. And you love pumpkin too? Damn. I can’t wait to make these!! 🙂
Katie,
Under nutritional information it says it’s based off 10 Reeses cups, but what size cupcake liners did you use in your recipe? I’m on Weight Watchers & need to know what size to make them for it to be the 1 point! If it says somewhere I apologize, but I didn’t see it.