HOMEMADE PEANUT BUTTER CHOCOLATE MINICUP (REESE'S COPYCAT)

My second son loves Reese's! He is always bugging me to get some for him, so I thought why not I try to duplicate in my own kitchen? It is basically peanut butter wrapped in chocolate, right? So this is my first attempt. Just chill peanut butter, roll into balls, and cover with melted chocolate, and chill. It's quite simple actually, except that there are a few chilling stages, that's all.

My three sons said the taste was slightly different from Reese's, yet still good on its own. They were happy to consume them, but who was not?? 

Maybe next time, I will use melted marshmallow instead of icing sugar. This might work to achieve a closer texture to actual Reese's.



HOMEMADE PEANUT BUTTER CHOCOLATE MINICUP (REESE'S COPYCAT)
Ingredients
2 tbsp peanuts
3 heaped tbsp creamy peanut butter, cold
1/2 cup icing sugar, sifted
1 tsp salt
200g chocolate chips

Methods

1.  Roast peanuts over small fire. Roughly chop when they are cool to handle.

2.  Mix cold peanut butter, icing sugar, chopped peanuts and salt well, chill in fridge for 20 min.

3.  With lightly oiled palms, roll peanut butter mixture into small balls. Place balls on non-stick baking paper, freeze till ready to use.

Make sure no water gets in!

4.  Melt chocolate chips over simmering water. Let cool slightly and transfer into piping bag.

5.  Pipe a little melted chocolate in small paper muffin cups. Tap the cups in smooth out the chocolate. Freeze for about 5 min.

6.  Place frozen peanut butter balls onto hardened choc in cups. Pipe melted chocolate to completely cover the ball. Tap a few times to even top. Freeze for 10 min. Transfer to fridge if not consumed immediately. Done!