Sometimes, you just need a big chunk of chocolate stuffed with peanut butter with a dash of crunch. It was Monday yesterday, so we deserve these, right? RIGHT!
I think we should celebrate getting through a Monday, let’s make these extra delicious peanut butter cups to keep a head of steam through the week.
Ritz crackers bring the salty/crunchy factor. Vegan chocolate chips bring the..chocolate (no explaining to be done there). Peanut butter brings some texture to the party.
Everything gets melted, dropped into muffin cups and frozen, easy peasy! (spell check is telling me ‘peasy’ isn’t a word, so wrong!)
The layer line up is chocolate, cracker, peanut butter, and more chocolate. Obviously you know at this point that the worst part is waiting for these to freeze! Trust me, if you try to take them out too soon you end up with a half melted peanut butter cup and are faced with ‘do I just inhale it or re-freeze it??’.
I ate it to save it from melting (duh), it had to be done.
But really, don’t do what I did with these cups of sweet goodness. I completely overfilled each cup, globbing the peanut butter on like nobody’s business and ending up with a peanut buttery mess because the cups were too full. But! The good news is that these still tasted like creamy Reese’s cup stuffed with a crunchy center, so it is a winner without a doubt. The sweet chocolate with the crunch of the Ritz cracker and salty factor of the peanut butter is a dynamite combo.
I didn’t have paper muffin liners on hand, but I’m sure it would make the removal of these much, much easier. The faster/easier you can get these cups out of the pan, the better. Go celebrate another start of the week, it’s almost Wednesday!
Stuffed Peanut Butter Cups
Makes 4
adapted from Averie Cooks
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips, melted (I used vegan )
4 Ritz Crackers
6 teaspoons peanut butter
Place four paper muffin liners inside a muffin tin .
Melt the chocolate chips in a  bowl and spoon 1 tbs. of melted chocolate into the bottom of each muffin liner.
Place liners into the freezer for 5 minutes until the chocolate sets up. While the chocolate is setting, spread each of the four crackers with peanut butter, using about 1 ½ teaspoons of peanut butter for each cracker.
Remove the muffin liners from the freezer and  place one peanut butter-covered cracker in each cup. Cover the top of each cup with the remaining chocolate.
Freeze or refrigerate the cups until chocolate has set up before unwrapping.
Averie @ Averie Cooks says
thanks for linking up my recipe and glad you tried them! I want some now 🙂
Abby @ totesdelishblog says
I’ve had them pinned for some time now to try : ) It’s hard to be patient and wait for them to freeze completely!
Tracy says
What an awesome, quick, easy treat! I’m imagining the possibilities with different types of “butters!”
Abby @ totesdelishblog says
I agree! The possibilities are endless!
bakerbynature says
I feel like everyday is a day I need a giant chunk of chocolate with peanut butter and some crunch – I want some of these for lunch!
Abby @ totesdelishblog says
Me too! I made the mistake of not brining any to work with me, lesson learned!
Joanne & Adam (@inspiredtaste) says
Yum! Looks so delicious.
Abby @ totesdelishblog says
Thanks Joanne! It’s easy to eat too many in one sitting : )
lifewithpepper says
Wait – Ritz crackers are vegan? What rock have I been living under! These will be made this week!!!
Abby @ totesdelishblog says
Yes ma’am! Averie from Averie Cooks posted about it a while ago and it blew my mind! These are the BEST quick dessert. Thanks for stopping by!
Here’s a list of foods that I had no idea were vegan either!
http://www.peta.org/living/vegetarian-living/accidentally-vegan.aspx
lifewithpepper says
Thanks so much! I love your blog! Keep the awesome recipes coming! So glad to have found you!
Abby @ The Frosted Vegan says
It won’t let me comment on your last comment, so I’ll re-comment on this one, ha! Thank YOU for leaving the feedback. I spent a good amount of time yesterday browsing your blog as well! : )
thepeacepatch says
Thank you so much for sharing this superyumfulness! I featured it today on my blog!
Cheers!
Abby @ The Frosted Vegan says
Oh wow, thank you! That treat is one of my favorites as well, glad to see another Milwaukee blogger : )