Recipe

3-Ingredient Salted Peanut Butter Cups

By Clare Beatty at Vanderbilt University

If you’re a peanut butter freak like I am, keep reading. What’s better than a Reese’s peanut butter cup? A *salted* peanut butter cup. Salty AND sweet. That’s what I’m talkin’ about.

Salted Peanut Butter Cups

  • Prep Time: 5 minutes
  • Cook Time: 15 minutes
  • Total Time: 20 minutes
  • Servings: 15 bite-size peanut butter cups
  • Easy
Ingredients
  • 1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
  • 1/2 cup peanut butter
  • 2 tablespoon sea salt

Photo by Clare Beatty

Step 1

Melt chocolate chips in the microwave for 1 minute.

Step 2

Pour a layer of chocolate in the bottom of each candy cup.

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Step 3

Form a ball of peanut butter about the size of a small grape and place in the middle of each candy cup.

GIF by Clare Beatty

Step 4

Pour another layer of chocolate over the peanut butter.

GIF by Clare Beatty

Step 5

Sprinkle with a whisper of sea salt.

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Step 6

Freeze for 15 minutes.

Step 7

Time to dig in…

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