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?
You could make these and put a strawberry in each one. (Cut the top off and place the flat side down in the middle so the pointed half of the berry could stick out like an ice berg) Would be a new twist on an old favorite of chocolate covered strawberries.
YUM! These look scrumptious!
My favorite Halloween candy is candy corn…but the vegan ones are pretty gross and the homemade version are good, but don’t taste like the real thing. They just taste like marshmallow fondant, that just happens to be shaped into a tri-colored triangle! Perhaps I need to find a new favorite candy!! 🙂
I am a sucker for candy corn as well. I think the Jelly Belly one is vegan. Not healthy, but still vegan I think.
Pinned as soon as I saw it. It’s like you take all of my dreams and make them into desserts. LOVE love love your website!!! Keep those chocolate recipes coming, and the pumpkin too ;).
Oh I hope I have pumpkin in the house. I need these in my life!!!
I will be making these today! I have pureed butternut squash which I think would be just as good since I have sub-ed it for pumpkin in pies before. Thanks for another amazing recipe!!
These look SO GOOD. I will definitely be making them soon!
Holy wow. You’ve put all my favorites into one bite. Soooo looking forward to making this! You are awesome:)
just dropping by to say thank you for what you are doing with all these yummy recipes….. Love you, you are wonderful!!
Oh dear oh deal oh dear. Those just look so divine, it’s hard to imagine anything looking more beautiful at this moment. CCK, you have the best ideas!
These are so festive Katie 🙂