Reese's Peanut butter cups is really my hubby's fave. This was actually my first attempt to make homemade and handmade chocolate few years back. It wasn't that hard. I would say it scored 5 from a scale of 1 to 10 in terms of complexity. Anyway, after my hubby tasted these homemade peanut butter cups, takder dah dia mengidam those reeses's pb cups lagi. Hrm... kalau nak beli reeses's ni pun ada ler dekat 2 hengget setengah utk 2 biji jer tau kat luar tu!!!!! So why not make your own peanut butter cups??? Anyways, below is the recipe. Enjoy.......
Ingredients
1) For the peanut butter filling, gunakan pan. Letakkan atas stove. Gunakan api yang kecil. mix in the peanut butter and the butter into the pan.Stir it, sampaila kedua-duanya cair. Then stir in the the cracker crumbs and the icing sugar dan angkat mixture tadi dari atas api. Mix everything sampai sebati dan biarkan ianya sejuk.
2) For the chocolate coating. Melt the chocolate and shortening using double boiler technique. Kalau nak senang gunakan microwave ajer.. Senang sikit. Then, microwave chocolate chips bersama dengan shortening tadi on medium for 1-2 minutes or more if needed. Sekiranya anda gunakan compound chocolate, make sure anda potong chocolate tadi kecik2. Ermm. jangan ler kecik sangt.. memadai dlm sebesar duit 50 sen jer .. Sentiasa check chocolate didalam microwave tu dan sentiasa kacau2 sebab kalau dia dah hangit... errmmm... masuk tong sampah ler jawabnyer. Just make sure dia betul-betul cair dan tak berketul-ketul jer.. Normally kalau anda masukkan shortening, kelikatan dia akan berkurangan. So senang sket masa nak bubuh dalam acuan nanti.
3) So ok, now you have your chocolate and your peanut butter. Gunakan sudu dan masukkan sedikit chocolate tadi ke dalam mini cups tu anggaran dlm sesudu kecil. Then swirl the chocolate dlm cups tu just to make sure that it coats all the sides inside the tiny cups. Sometimes people likes to use brush to brush the chocolate inside the tiny muffin cups tu tapi rasa macam leceh ler pulak.. Ikut ler mana cara yang you all berkenan. Then, biarkan chocolate to keras sebentar. (dlm 10-15min). Now its time to put in your peanut butter fillings into the cups. You can use a spoon to fill in the fillings about 2/3 full. Then, pour in the rest of the chocolate into the muffins cups till it barely touches the rim of the cups. Leave it to cool about 30 minutes or so.
4) Enjoy.....
Ingredients
- 2 Cups milk chocolate chips (or compound milk chocolate use for coatings)
- 2 tbsp shortening
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1/2 cup crunchy peanut butter
- 1 cup confectioners' sugar (icing sugar)
- 2/3 cup graham cracker crumbs (variations.. boleh gunakan juga biskut marie kalu kat mesia nie, hancurkan sedikit halus just like doing crumbs for cheesecake)
- Mini muffin cups
1) For the peanut butter filling, gunakan pan. Letakkan atas stove. Gunakan api yang kecil. mix in the peanut butter and the butter into the pan.Stir it, sampaila kedua-duanya cair. Then stir in the the cracker crumbs and the icing sugar dan angkat mixture tadi dari atas api. Mix everything sampai sebati dan biarkan ianya sejuk.
2) For the chocolate coating. Melt the chocolate and shortening using double boiler technique. Kalau nak senang gunakan microwave ajer.. Senang sikit. Then, microwave chocolate chips bersama dengan shortening tadi on medium for 1-2 minutes or more if needed. Sekiranya anda gunakan compound chocolate, make sure anda potong chocolate tadi kecik2. Ermm. jangan ler kecik sangt.. memadai dlm sebesar duit 50 sen jer .. Sentiasa check chocolate didalam microwave tu dan sentiasa kacau2 sebab kalau dia dah hangit... errmmm... masuk tong sampah ler jawabnyer. Just make sure dia betul-betul cair dan tak berketul-ketul jer.. Normally kalau anda masukkan shortening, kelikatan dia akan berkurangan. So senang sket masa nak bubuh dalam acuan nanti.
3) So ok, now you have your chocolate and your peanut butter. Gunakan sudu dan masukkan sedikit chocolate tadi ke dalam mini cups tu anggaran dlm sesudu kecil. Then swirl the chocolate dlm cups tu just to make sure that it coats all the sides inside the tiny cups. Sometimes people likes to use brush to brush the chocolate inside the tiny muffin cups tu tapi rasa macam leceh ler pulak.. Ikut ler mana cara yang you all berkenan. Then, biarkan chocolate to keras sebentar. (dlm 10-15min). Now its time to put in your peanut butter fillings into the cups. You can use a spoon to fill in the fillings about 2/3 full. Then, pour in the rest of the chocolate into the muffins cups till it barely touches the rim of the cups. Leave it to cool about 30 minutes or so.
4) Enjoy.....
