{"id":145,"date":"2014-04-04T22:12:38","date_gmt":"2014-04-05T05:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.leighadactyl.com\/food\/?p=145"},"modified":"2014-04-04T22:12:38","modified_gmt":"2014-04-05T05:12:38","slug":"bad-day-peanut-butter-cups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leighadactyl.com\/food\/bad-day-peanut-butter-cups\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Day Peanut Butter Cups"},"content":{"rendered":"

I used to always say that I don’t like chocolate and peanut together, I’m more of a chocolate purist. But recently I realized that I love all Reese’s candies and basically anything with chocolate and peanut butter. So I guess I was in denial.<\/p>\n

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\nBut no more. I’ve been thinking about chocolate and peanut butter for at least a week, but wasn’t able to settle on anything. I considered peanut butter thumbprint cookies with a chocolate thumbprint. And peanut butter cups. But as I said, I have these pre-baby jeans, and I actually just got into them, and I don’t want to have to give them up already. So I was putting it off until after we finish the Strawberry Hand Pies<\/a> (which freeze beautifully). But it was becoming clear that our chocolate chips weren’t going to outlast the hand pies (because I end up eating a handful each day at naptime) and today was a particularly rough day. So peanut butter cups.<\/p>\n

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I was worried about making them straight in the muffin tin without liners, but this recipe<\/a> convinced me that it was possible. Worst case, I would just end up eating them with a spoon.<\/p>\n

There’s not really a recipe for this. I mixed about equal parts peanut butter (“natural” crunchy) with powdered sugar, until almost crumbly and firm-ish. I also used a little ground flax seed because I ran out of powdered sugar (but I didn’t want them to be too too sweet so wasn’t planning to use any more sugar anyway). Melted bittersweet chocolate chips in a double boiler, added a touch of coconut oil. Put a little chocolate in the bottom of the muffin tin, then a blob of peanut butter, topped with chocolate, sprinkle of salt. Froze for a couple of hours, inverted the pan and and smacked the candy out with a cast iron skillet.<\/p>\n

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We’re storing in the freezer but I don’t think they’ll last very long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I used to always say that I don’t like chocolate and peanut together, I’m more of a chocolate purist. But recently I realized that I love all Reese’s candies and basically anything with chocolate and peanut butter. So I guess I was in denial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sweet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leighadactyl.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leighadactyl.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leighadactyl.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leighadactyl.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leighadactyl.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.leighadactyl.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150,"href":"https:\/\/www.leighadactyl.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leighadactyl.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leighadactyl.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leighadactyl.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}