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These Christmas Peanut Butter Cups are so festive and easy to make!

Christmas Peanut Butter Cups are always delicious but even more so when you make them yourself!  These delicious peanut butter cups are coated with white and semi-sweet chocolate with festive sprinkles that make them perfect for giving out as gifts or adding to the holiday dessert table.

I love making sweet treats for the holidays, especially Christmas.  I really like making easy, festive treats that you can give as gifts or set out on a Christmas dessert platter, and these peanut butter cups are perfect.  

These peanut butter cups are easy to make and so so so delicious!  These homemade peanut butter cups are always a hit, especially around the holidays when everyone is looking for festive Christmas candy. We love these homemade version of reese.

These peanut butter cups start with a chocolate base, an easy, creamy, luscious peanut butter filling and topped with more chocolate and the cutest holiday sprinkles.  

This recipe does call for creamy peanut butter but you can use crunchy, you can use almond butter, the possibilities are endless!  You can totally make these your own.  You could also use a mini muffin tin and make mini peanut butter cups.

The creamy peanut butter layer is made up of peanut butter, butter and powdered sugar to create the peanut butter filling.  It is nice and sweet and tastes even better than the store-bought candy.

When it comes to the chocolate for these peanut butter cups you can use milk chocolate, dark chocolate, semi-sweet or white chocolate, or even a mixture like I did here. These taste just like homemade reese’s peanut butter cups.  Just a few simple ingredients and you have homemade reese’s cups.

I topped my homemade reese’s peanut butter cups with these adorable sprinkles I got from Amazon.  You could also just drizzle green and red chocolate over the top and they would be gorgeous!

These peanut butter cups are super easy to make even your kids will want to help.  The filling is no bake and gets rolled into balls and shaped into discs and my kids love helping with that part, and toppings them with sprinkles. 

I always set out a plate of these during the holidays and they never last long!  You may want to double this recipe!

These also make fabulous gifts for the holidays.  Who doesn’t want some delicious homemade Christmas candy during the holiday?

So this holiday season makes these Christmas Peanut Butter Cups and I promise everyone will love it!

You will love these little peanut butter cups because they are 

• Easy to make
• Great for kids
• Perfect for parties
• Delicious sweet treat
• Fun Christmas treat

RECIPE FAQS

Where can I find the sprinkles?

I got these sprinkles HERE from Amazon, but you can top these with any sprinkles you find at the store.  I find the craft stores actually have a great selection of holiday sprinkles.

Can I use any nut butter?

Of course!! You can use crunchy peanut butter, almond butter, sun butter, any kind of nut butter you like will work.  However I will say if you are using a natural peanut butter or a nut butter that is a little more loose you may want to add some extra powdered sugar to help with the extra oil.

Which chocolate works best?

Any chocolate you like will be delicious in this recipe.  I do prefer to use a melting chocolate or almond bark, or candy melts.  Sometimes chocolate chips can give you a little trouble melting but usually adding a little oil will fix that. 

Ingredients 

• Peanut butter –  I use creamy but you can use crunch if you like. 
• Butter – Softened.
• Vanilla extract – This adds a little flavor to these peanut butter cups.
• Powdered sugar – Makes the filling melt in your mouth. 
• White almond bark – You can also use white candy melts. 
• Chocolate almond bark – You can also use chocolate candy melts, chocolate chips are a little harder to work with. 
• Holiday sprinkles –  I like these Sprinkles from Amazon.

How to make these Christmas Peanut Butter Cups

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Christmas Peanut Butter Cups

Yield: 18

Prep Time: 20 minutes

Chill Time: 1 hour

Total Time: 1 hour 20 minutes

Peanut butter cups are always delicious but even more so when you make them yourself!  These delicious peanut butter cups are coated with white and dark with festive sprinkles that make them perfect for giving out as gifts or adding to the holiday dessert table.

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Ingredients

• 1 cup peanut butter
• ¼ cup butter, softened
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 ½ cups powdered sugar
• ½ pound white almond bark
• ½ pound chocolate almond bark
• Holiday sprinkles

Instructions

1. Place 18 cupcake liners in your cupcake tin. 
2. In a large bowl using an electric mixer combine the peanut butter and butter until well mixed.
3. Add the vanilla extract and powdered sugar and mix until well combined. 
4. The mixture will be crumbly and that is okay. 
5. In 2 microwave safe bowl melt the different almond barks in the microwave in 30 second intervals until the chocolate is melted is smooth. 
6. Spoon a little bit of the chocolate in the bottom of each cupcake liner.
7. I do half white almond bark and half the cups chocolate.
8. Use your spoon to spread the almond bark around the bottom of the cupcake liners and slightly up the sides.
9. Roll about 1 - 1-½  tablespoons the peanut butter mixture into a ball and then flatten it out into a disc.
10. Place the discs into each chocolate lined cupcake liner. 
11. Spoon more chocolate over the top of each peanut butter disc.
12.  Immediately sprinkle with the festive sprinkles.
13. Let the peanut butter cups set for an hour at room temperature or 15 minutes in the fridge. 
14. Serve!

Notes

• Store leftovers in airtight container in fridge for up to 1 week. 
• You can use chunky peanut butter if you like.
• You can substitute other nut butters. 
• You can use just chocolate almond bark or just white almond bark if you like.

Nutrition Information:

Yield: 18 Serving Size: 1
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 295Total Fat: 22gSaturated Fat: 6gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 15gCholesterol: 7mgSodium: 153mgCarbohydrates: 19gFiber: 4gSugar: 11gProtein: 8g