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.
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.
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 tonight for dessert–they turned out great!! My husband loved them too, and he’s not much of a dessert (especially chocolate) fan–I don’t know how that’s possible either…I had to mix up a little extra chocolate though actually, I was a little too generous with it for the bottom layer apparently 🙂 anyway, the recipe is delicious!
Just made these this morning, and they are awesome! I had some carob chips on hand, so I “melted” them in the microwave and crushed them down into a powder, then added 1 tsp melted coconut oil and a little vanilla to make a paste. I subbed that in for your first 3 ingredients and it worked great! I also used 1 T of PB2 (powdered peanut butter) and 1 T natural PB just to lower the calories a little. I wasn’t sure if the taste would be the same with using just PB2, but I think I’ll try that next time. Thanks!
I used all PB2. Tasted lovely! 🙂
Well done! well done. These will be getting made probably today actually!! awesome treat Katie–a total Moni treat for sure!! Yum!!
perfect and such an obvious ( 🙂 ) yet genius idea!
Looks soo yummy! Bookmarked!
I am absolutely making these. These look awesome!
My 3 favorite things…your blog will be my go-to for anything pumpkin this fall! Can’t believe they’re only 45 calories!!
Sheer brilliance, Katie (as usual)!! They look amazing. I will have to try with another nut butter, as I’m off PB for now. . . but otherwise all ingredients are a “go” for me now! (and I think I *will* GO–to the kitchen to make them!) 😀
Do you have any tips on how to make the top and bottom chocolate layers come together on the sides? I hope that made sense…The filling always squishes out the sides for me and its rather difficult to eat. Maybe I’m doing something wrong. It’s still delicious though!
These are DIVINE! I did try 3 tbs pumpkin and 1 tbs pb just for fun….yum! Very light in the middle – almost mousse like. Of course that might because I could only stand to wait just until the chocolate set to try one! I’m giddy about this recipe…but that is no surprise. I’ve loved everything I’ve tried from you!!