Protein Peanut Butter Cups – Chocolate Lined Katie

Make your individual chocolate excessive protein peanut butter cups at residence. This scrumptious wholesome snack recipe is full of protein!

No bake protein peanut butter cups

I’ve gotten many requests for a copycat protein peanut butter cup recipe, much like the packaged pb cups from Quest or Good Snacks.

With simply 4 or 5 substances and no oven required, these home made chocolate protein cups are a wholesome dessert or snack that’s tremendous fast and straightforward to make.

In case you are in search of a wholesome snack that’s low calorie, excessive in protein, and tastes like a chocolate Reese’s peanut butter cup on the identical time, that is the recipe for you.

Preserve them available for any time you might be craving chocolate and peanut butter.

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Protein chocolate peanut butter cup substances

Here’s what you’ll want for the recipe: creamy or crunchy peanut butter, protein powder, chocolate chips or chocolate bars, elective oil, and a pinch of salt.

Be happy to substitute cashew butter, macadamia nut butter, walnut, hazelnut, pine nut, or pecan butter, almond butter, Do-it-yourself Nutella, or nut free Coconut Butter or sunflower butter for the peanut butter.

Go forward and use your favourite white chocolate, milk chocolate, semi candy chocolate, or darkish chocolate chips. Or break up a chocolate bar to make use of as an alternative of chocolate chips.

For a enjoyable twist, strive completely different flavored chocolate bars, resembling peppermint, coconut, espresso, or sea salt caramel. Caramel chocolate peanut butter cups? Sure, please.

I prefer to stir somewhat vegetable or sunflower oil into the melted chocolate for a smoother end, however you’ll be able to omit this step if you would like oil free peanut butter cups.

Together with the salt is extremely beneficial, as a result of it provides depth of taste.

The recipe may be dairy free, gluten free, soy free, egg free, vegan, and sugar free. For a keto protein snack, use sugar free chocolate chips and a low carb nut butter.

If you end up with leftover peanut butter, make Vegan Peanut Butter Cookies or these flourless and sugar free Keto Peanut Butter Cookies.

What sort of protein powder to make use of

As a result of differing kinds and types of protein powders can range drastically in style, you’ll want to use a model and taste that you just already know you want.

Attempt chocolate, vanilla, espresso, caramel, strawberry, cinnamon roll, pumpkin, and even birthday cake protein powder.

The recipe will work with just about any sort of protein, together with rice, egg, casein, soy, or whey protein.

I discover many manufacturers to have a synthetic aftertaste, so my private desire when making desserts is to go together with unflavored and unsweetened pea protein powder.

You could swap out the protein powder for an equal quantity of powdered peanut butter as an alternative. We have now not tried substituting powdered pb for the nut butter within the candies.

Protein peanut butter cup recipe video

Above – watch the step-by-step recipe video

The best way to make the excessive protein snack cups

Begin by gathering your whole substances, together with spherical sweet molds or mini cupcake liners and a mini muffin tin.

Fastidiously soften the chocolate chips or bars. You probably have by no means melted chocolate earlier than, see beneath for directions on easy methods to soften chocolate accurately so it doesn’t burn.

If utilizing the elective vegetable or coconut oil, stir it in after melting the chocolate to attain a skinny, easy texture.

With a small spoon, unfold a couple of half teaspoon of chocolate sauce up the perimeters of the cupcake liners or sweet cups.

Set the muffin pan apart when you make the protein peanut butter filling.

If utilizing pure peanut butter or a dry nut butter like almond butter, let it come to room temperature or gently heat it up till it’s straightforward to stir.

In a cereal bowl or medium mixing bowl, stir the nut butter along with the protein powder and pinch of salt. Spoon somewhat over a teaspoon of filling into every chocolate coated liner or cup.

Unfold one other teaspoon or so of chocolate over prime of all the pieces. You must now not be capable to see the peanut butter within the sweet molds or paper liners.

Both chill the cups within the fridge or freezer for ten minutes to set, or just let the pan sit on the counter for a couple of hours and the cups will naturally set on their very own.

As soon as the chocolate shell hardens, the liners will peel off simply from the home made protein peanut butter cups.

Retailer these chocolate peanut butter protein cups in a cool, dry place. Or refrigerate or freeze for as much as 4 months.

The most effective methods to soften chocolate

As I point out in my recipe for Chocolate Lined Strawberries, the easiest way to soften chocolate is both in a microwave or through the use of the double boiler methodology.

Melting chocolate within the microwave: Place the chocolate chips in a very dry microwave protected bowl. (If utilizing chocolate bars, first finely chop with a knife.)

Warmth the bowl for twenty seconds. Stir, then proceed to warmth in ten second increments, stirring between every. Chocolate can burn shortly, so you will need to go slowly.

Melting chocolate with a double boiler: Place the chocolate items or chips within the prime pan of a double boiler or warmth protected mixing bowl over a saucepan or backside double boiler full of an inch or so of simmering water.

Don’t enable any water from the underside pan to the touch the chocolate chips within the prime pan, as a result of water could make the chocolate seize up.

Stir till easy, letting the steam from the underside warmth the chocolate not directly.

This protein peanut butter cup recipe is straightforward to move, making it nice for events, e book golf equipment, vacation cookie trays, or different occasions with pals or household.

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