These tasty peanut butter cups are just what the doctor ordered for your low-carb diet. Make ahead and store them in the refrigerator or freezer as a tasty dessert or everyday treat.
Place low carb chocolate chips in large glass bowl or measuring cup.
Measure 1.25 cups of peanut butter and place in a glass measuring up.
You'll be using 2 tsp of vanilla, one in the chocolate mixture and one in the peanut butter mixture. I like to use the small glass prep cups for these when I'm cooking or baking.
You'll be using three tablespoons of zero sugar powdered sweetener. Three for the chocolate mixture and 1 for the peanut butter mixture.
You'll also need table salt and course sea salt. You don't need to put these in the prep bowls, but you can if you want to! These are optional ingredients, but can bring out the flavor in the peanut butter cups, especially for those salt lovers.
You'll also need two tablespoons of coconut oil to add to the chocolate chips.
Adding a bit of coconut oil to the chocolate chips helps to be able to spread the chocolate into the silicone baking mold
Add the sweetener.
It's best to use a powdered sweetener for this recipe. If the powdered sweetener is too lumpy, strain it through a fine mesh strainer to get the lumps out. You don't want to be tasting chunks of sweetener in your peanut butter cups.
Put a little chocolate in to your silicone chocolate molds. I just spoon it in and smear the chocolate up the sides. I don't put too much in, just enough so the mold is covered. It gets kind of messy when you aren't a pro, but so what! In the end it tastes great and that's what matters. You'll probably need two of these molds to make all the peanut butter cups. I have a couple of different sizes, so I just use the bigger molds when these are all filled up.
Some people like to pop the mold in the freezer to set the chocolate, but I find it isn't necessary.
Stir it together!
Store in the refrigerator and take them out whenever you need a low-carb delicious keto treat!
If you have any chocolate left over you can mix the chocolate with some nuts and make a keto nut goodie.