Homemade white chocolate peanut butter cups are a decadent sweet and salty candy...and they're easy to make with just 5 simple ingredients!
Course Dessert, Snack
Cuisine American, Kids
Keyword copycat, peanut butter, Peanut Butter Cups, Reese's, white chocolate
Prep Time 10 minutesminutes
Cook Time 10 minutesminutes
Chill Time 30 minutesminutes
Total Time 50 minutesminutes
Servings 14
Calories 261kcal
Author Stacey aka the Soccer Mom
Cost $10
Equipment
Mixing bowl
microwave safe bowl
Muffin tin
Silicone Muffin Liners
Ingredients
3/4cuppowdered sugar
3/4cupcreamy peanut butter
1teaspoonvanilla extract
3cupswhite chocolate barkshredded (or white chocolate chips)
2tablespoonvegetable oil
Instructions
Stir together the powdered sugar, peanut butter, and vanilla in a mixing bowl until a cohesive dough forms. Place bowl in fridge to chill while you melt the white chocolate.
Add the white chocolate and oil to a microwave-safe bowl. Microwave for 45 seconds, stir, then continue heating in 15 second intervals until melted and smooth. Spoon 1 TB of melted white chocolate into the bottom of each muffin liner. Chill in freezer while you work on the peanut butter filling again.
Take peanut butter mixture out of the fridge and portion into 10 even balls. Press to flatten the peanut butter balls into pucks. Place one peanut butter disc on top of the white chocolate layer in each muffin cup.
Remove muffin pan from fridge and pour remaining white chocolate on top of each peanut butter cup, until all peanut butter is covered. Chill until set before removing from the pan.