Peanut butter cups are my all time favourite Halloween sweet. Or simply favourite sweet rising up on the whole. At any time when we’d get residence with our stash of Halloween sweet, we’d dump it out on the ground and divide it into piles of what we wished to maintain and what we wished to commerce. I might just about at all times commerce my non-chocolate sweet. Peanut butter cups after all had been at all times within the hold pile. I do not assume any of my buddies ever traded these! There may be simply one thing so crave worthy in regards to the candy chocolate and salty peanut butter combo that makes me completely happy. So now after all as an grownup I nonetheless get pleasure from peanut butter cups. Sure, I do know you should buy them on the retailer in vegan varieties, however I desire to make my very own, as a result of then I can select the chocolate and peanut butter that go into them. Additionally, they’re tremendous easy to make in case you have molds. I truly simply use silicone muffin liners they usually work good!
Now, for Halloween I I prefer to make them much more festive and make Vegan Spider Net Peanut Butter Cups. I like spiders in spite of everything, they’re fairly cool creatures. However no, I do not imply adorning with actual spider webs, that would not be vegan, as a substitute I made a reasonably spider internet design on prime of my peanut butter cups. Actually I received the concept from Martha Stewart as a result of I noticed her beautify cupcakes like this and I believed it might be good on peanut butter cups!
For the cups I like to make use of an excellent high quality vegan darkish chocolate, often Lily’s Vegan Chocolate Chips which occur to even be sugar free. I simply soften it in a double boiler and it is able to go! I make my very own peanut butter, so I exploit that for the filling. However If I had been shopping for it I might get one with solely peanuts and sea salt for the elements. I just like the facilities of my peanut butter cups to be salty, not candy to distinction the candy chocolate. Lastly, for the spider internet topping, I make a fast vegan “white chocolate”. It’s in parenthesis as a result of I do not make it with cacao butter since it might be a bit too runny to pipe. It really works out completely although! These are so good! In case you are a giant PB cup fan like me, give these Vegan Spider Net Peanut Butter Cups a attempt for Halloween!
Vegan Spider Net Peanut Butter Cups
Makes 6 massive cups
Chocolate:
- 1 1/2 cups vegan darkish chocolate chips, or vegan darkish chocolate chopped
Spider Net:
- 1 Tbsp uncooked cashew butter at room temperature
- 2 Tbsp coconut butter warmed to liquid
- 1/4 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 tsp maple syrup warmed to liquid
- pinch sea salt
Filling:
- 1/4 cup natural peanut butter* refrigerated
Directions:
- Soften the darkish chocolate within the prime of a double boiler till easy.
- Spoon somewhat chocolate into the bottoms of 6 peanut butter cup molds set on a plate or tray, filling them about 1/4-1/3 full. Place within the freezer till onerous, about 10 minutes.
- To make the spider internet, mix coconut butter, cashew butter, vanilla, maple syrup, and sea salt in a bowl, and whisk till easy. Put aside for a minute.
- Spoon a heaping 1 tsp of the peanut butter over the hardened darkish chocolate layer, then pour the remaining darkish chocolate over it within the cups till the peanut butter is roofed, and faucet the tray on the counter to degree it.
- Take the white chocolate and put it in a ziplock bag, and minimize off the nook to create a small gap. Pipe the white chocolate in a spiral from the middle of the chocolate till you get to the surface snail shell model (see photograph on the backside), then take a toothpick and drag it from the middle of the chocolate to the surface about 8 occasions in a circle to create the online. Repeat with the remaining candies.
- Place them within the freezer till set, about 20 minutes.
- Get pleasure from! Retailer any additional within the fridge.
*In case your PB is simply too runny for some motive, whisk somewhat coconut butter into it to thicken it.
