Give me a thousand shy Autumns like this one to cosy up in near a window with a cup of tea and watch the world go orange, red and a myriad shades of copper. I have been busy lately. Crazy busy I would say even, flying around, stressed out, digging up documents, chasing people and trying to organise a move. And thus, I haven’t updated this blog in ages, even my Instagram activity has suffered, and I endeavour to be better, but I am still in the middle of it and I can’t actually commit to it.
I have been writing too, the second part of a novel I wrote a while ago, and this is again an Autumn feeling. It is the nostalgia and quietness of it all that calls to me, that sends me spinning into the depth of my deepest darkest longings, back to my childhood.
As such, I have rescued a simple candy recipe, replicated over social media a million times, to share with you. Peanut butter cups. The scary bit is when you look at the nutritional values of the commercial brand Reese’s, so much everything you really don’t want to be eating too much of it.
These variation is a non added sugar one, I have used a sugar free chocolate brand as a base and no added sugar peanut butter and it just implies melting and pouring.
Ingredients (for 15 cups)
1.5 No added sugar dark chocolate bars (150 gr)
3 tbsp of no added sugar peanut butter
2 tbsp. cocoa butter/coconut butter
2 tbsp of cocoa nibs
a pinch of salt.
How to…
In a small non metálico jar, put the chocolate broken in pieces and one tbsp of cocoa butter. Melt in the microwave for about 1.5 minutes or more if needed.
Line a small tray that fits in your freezer or fridge with small metallic chocolate liners and pour the melted chocolate on them, filling them up to 1/3 of their capacity.
Put them in the freezer and let them cool down for 5 minutes and in the meantime, melt the peanut butter with the rest of the cocoa butter and a pinch of salt in the microwave. Bring out the liners and fill them with the mixture for another 1/3. Cool down again, melt the chocolate and fill it up to the top and sprinkle with cocoa nibs.
The cocoa nibs add an extra crunchiness and fibre that is very yummy!
Enjoy!
These look wonderful! I used to love Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups until my taste buds changed and I found it too synthetic!
I have bookmarked your recipe to try!
Hope your novel writing is going well
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How funny, the same thing happened to me with the Reeses!! Now I prefer the ones I make by far, let me know if you like them 🙂
The novel is getting there hehe 😉 thanks for asking!
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I showed your recipe to my Chocolate-Making Daughter and she is very excited.
Hang in there! Stay fortified with lots of good food!
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Well if she approves.. we are on to something good!! 😉
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Nice post 🙂
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thanks xx 🙂
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Wonderful recipe! Over the years, my taste buds have changed so much that I simply cannot eat store-bought candy and find is appealing in any way. I made this to trade for some of the Halloween candy my kids got yesterday so they can taste for themselves the difference. I made them in a large flat bottomed metallic dish (called thali in Hindi) as I didn’t have the liners… then cut them into bite-sized squares… not as pretty as yours but just as tasty! They were a hit! Thank you!
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Well I am very glad they turned out ok and your kids liked them 🙂
To be honest, the shape is not the most important feature, so as long as the flavour is there, bites are just fine !
You are very welcome 😀
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This is a wonderful chocolate option for those choosing to lessen their synthetic chemical intake. It satisfies the sweetness (most desire) and the peanut butter/chocolate combination that many have come to appreciate.
Good luck on your move. So much work, but so worth the effort!!
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Thank you, I thought so too! A good alternative, satisfying and delicious. 🙂
Thanks for for pop by, I really enjoy your blog by the way, great work.
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Thank you very much. I look to share your sight with my readers based on your approach to healthier lifestyle eating. You prove that HEALTHIER choices can be satisfying as well.
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That is exactly the aim of this blog. Heathy food is delicious, and people just don’t know it!! I believe nutrition should be a subject in all educational systems and many diseases could be avoided all together.
Let’s keep working together for that noble cause!!
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I think you need an Order Online button on your site. I’ll take a dozen of these, please.
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HAHAHA that made me laugh… it’s a great idea though 😉
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