Tell Me A Story: HOMEMADE PEANUT BUTTER CUPS

Mary Marcia
America's STORYTELLER
Telling Untold Stories in Photographs, Prose and Public Speaking

HOMEMADE

PEANUT BUTTER CUPS

Make some homemade peanut butter cups
for Valentine's Day or Easter!

Homemade Peanut Butter Cups

and

Edible Easter Grass

RECIPE
Filling for Peanut Butter Cups

3/4 Cup Creamy Peanut Butter
3/4 Cup Powdered Sugar
1 Tablespoon Melted Butter
2 Teaspoons Vanilla Extract

BLEND with an electric mixer.
CHILL slightly.

RECIPE
Filling for Peanut Butter Cups

3/4 Cup Creamy Peanut Butter
3/4 Cup Powdered Sugar
1 Tablespoon Melted Butter
2 Teaspoons Vanilla Extract

BLEND with an electric mixer.
CHILL slightly.

CHILL the peanut butter filling in the refrigerator.

GATHER candy melts and candy molds.

I purchased candy melts and molds

at Hobby Lobby and Michaels.

I found

"Confectionery Twisting Wax Paper" at DEALS.

My new favorite tool for working with candy melts

is the "Drizzling Scoop."

Brushes are used to "paint" chocolate in the candy molds.

WASH and DRY candy molds.

Molded Pieces, Dipped Treats, Clusters

Link: www.makenmold.com

Melt candy wafers in a double boiler, or microwave.

Directions are on the back of the candy package.

I use the microwave.

Place candy wafers in microwave safe bowl.

(I used a glass measuring cup.)

Microwave for 30-second intervals...stirring in between.

STIR

POUR into molds...1/4 to 1/2 full.

PAINT melted chocolate candy

up on the side of the mold.

REFRIGERATE for a few minutes

until chocolate is set.

Take candy mold out of the refrigerator, and PUSH a glob of peanut butter filling in the center of each chocolate cup.

Flatten the filling, and pour more

melted chocolate over the top of the filling.

This is what the inside

of a purchased peanut butter cup looks like.

REFRIGERATE again for a few minutes

until the top layer of chocolate is set.

This is what my homemade peanut butter cups looks like.

Yummy!

You know those boxes that chocolates come in?

I wanted something different for my candy:

something that was colorful,

and something that would hold up during shipping.

Instead of using a paper box

for my homemade peanut butter cups,

I purchased a blue, plastic container

with multiple compartments

in the jewelry department at Michaels.

I washed it before adding the chocolates.

I finally found Edible Easter Grass

at the second Target store I went to.

The first Target store I went to sold out, and

so did the Wal-Mart.

Edible Grass has absolutely no nutritional value,

and is full of artificial flavors and preservatives,

but it looks so cute with my candy.

My daughter, Faith, says it tastes like an ice cream cone.

What a cute box of candy filled with

delicious homemade peanut butter cups...

and edible grass!

I also had fun using egg molds to make

chocolate Easter eggs...and heart chocolate suckers...

and adding peanut butter flavored melts to pretzels.

When the chocolate eggs were ready,

I added them inside plastic yellow "chick" eggs!

I think I found the yellow chick eggs at DEALS.

I also found clear plastic "chick" eggs,

(at DEALS)

and filled them with homemade and purchased candy,

nuts, lifesavers and sunflower seeds.

Use your imagination to create

unique Easter baskets and boxes.

Have FUN!

Happy Easter!

For MORE ideas and recipes for Easter...
type "Easter" in the SEARCH box at the top right of my blog page -
OR check out these links to my previous blogs...

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