I absolutely love Reese's Peanut Butter Cups?

Question

Has anyone ever made a dessert that's similar to them? I'd love to have a recipe so I could try to make my own peanut butter cups.

Answer 1

I have a recipe for "buckeyes". It's an Ohio treat. Hang on and I'll find it...

Buckeyes Recipe
This candy is made with peanut butter, chocolate chips, and other ingredients. Allow about an hour for chilling time.
INGREDIENTS:
1 cup creamy peanut butter
4 ounces plus 3 tablespoons softened butter
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 1/2 to 4 cups confectioners sugar, about 1 pound
1/2 cup very fine graham cracker crumbs
3 cups semisweet chocolate chips
PREPARATION:
With a wooden spoon or large mixer with paddle attachment, beat peanut butter, butter and vanilla until smooth. Slowly stir or beat in confectioners' sugar and graham cracker crumbs. Mixture will be dry, but will hold together when shaped into balls.
Shape mixture into 1-inch balls; place on wax paper lined cookie sheet and chill in freezer or until firm.
Melt chocolate chips over hot water. Spear a peanut butter ball with toothpick or dipping fork and dip ball into the chocolate to cover most of it. Place chocolate side down on cookie sheet. If desired, leave the top uncovered to resemble the Ohio buckeye nuts. If desired, drizzle more butter over the balls to fill in gaps made by toothpick or dipping fork. Refrigerate buckeyes for about 2 hours or longer, or until the chocolate is set. Store buckeyes tightly covered in refrigerator or freezer.

Makes about 5 dozen buckeye candies.



http://southernfood.about.com/od/candyrecipes/r/bl30223j.htm

Answer 2

Better Than Reese's Peanut Butter Cups:

15 min 10 min prep
24-45 servings

1 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs
2 cups powdered sugar
1 cup softened unsalted butter
2 cups creamy peanut butter
1 (12 ounce) package milk chocolate chips

1. Mix together graham crakcer crumbs and powdered sugar. Add peanut butter,and softened butter, mix well.
2. Press into ungreased 9x13 pan.
3. Set aside.
4. In a double boiler, melt your chocolate chips (some people use the microwave to melt chips, which is just fine).
5. After chips are melted pour and spread over peanut butter graham cracker mixture.
6. Chill in the refrigerator until set. Approximately 25-35 minutes. Keep chilled, or in a fairly cool room away from heat, if you store them out of the fridge.

Answer 3

These have the taste of Reese's but are in the shape of a ball.
Peanut Butter Balls.
1/4 lb. margarine
1/2 lb. peanut butter
3/4 lb. confectioner's sugar
1/4 c. light corn syrup
Dipping chocolate

Combine all ingreients, mixing well. Roll into 3/4 -inch balls and coat with dipping chocolate. Makes about 40 centers.

Answer 4

Try this, apparently everybody who likes peanut butter cups will love this!

Peanut Butter Cup Cookies

Yields: 40 servings

INGREDIENTS:
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup peanut butter

1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1 egg, beaten
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 tablespoons milk
40 miniature chocolate covered peanut
butter cups, unwrapped

DIRECTIONS:
1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
2. Sift together the flour, salt and baking soda; set aside.
3. Cream together the butter, sugar, peanut butter and brown sugar until fluffy. Beat in the egg, vanilla and milk. Add the flour mixture; mix well.
4. Shape into 40 balls and place each into an ungreased mini muffin pan.
5. Bake at 375 degrees for about 8 minutes. Remove from oven and immediately press a mini peanut butter cup into each ball. Cool and carefully remove from pan.

Answer 5

Peanut Butter Bars

1 cup butter or margarine, melted
2 cups graham cracker crumbs
2 cups confectioners' sugar 1 cup peanut butter
1 1/2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
4 tablespoons peanut butter

In a medium bowl, mix together the butter or margarine, graham cracker crumbs, confectioners' sugar, and 1 cup peanut butter until well blended. Press evenly into the bottom of an ungreased 9x13 inch pan. In a metal bowl over simmering water, or in the microwave, melt the chocolate chips with the peanut butter, stirring occasionally until smooth. Spread over the prepared crust. Refrigerate for at least one hour before cutting into squares.

Answer 6

I found this recipe but I have never tried it hope it works for you,and is the best answer(smile)!

Homemade Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups Recipe
From Peggy Trowbridge Filippone

These taste similar to the commercial peanut butter cups, but better! Great for gifts.
INGREDIENTS:
4 ounces semi-sweet chocolate bar
1/4 cup peanut butter
1/4 cup butter (4 Tbsp or 1/2 stick)
1/2 cup graham cracker crumbs
3/4 cup peanut butter
1/4 cup powdered sugar
1/4 cup graham cracker crumbs
6 ounces semi-sweet chocolate bar
1/8 cup butter (2 Tbsp or 1/4 stick)
1 ounce paraffin wax, chopped
PREPARATION:
Place 1-inch mini-muffin or candy papers in a mini-muffin tin.

In a double boiler, melt 4 ounces chocolate bar, peanut butter, and 1/4 cup butter, mixing until smooth.
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Gently mix in graham cracker crumbs.

Place about 1 teaspoon chocolate graham cracker mixture in bottom of paper cups. Chill 15 to 30 minutes to harden.

Place 3/4 cup peanut butter in a bowl over hot water to soften. Mix in powdered sugar and graham cracker crumbs. Place 1 teaspoon peanut butter mixture on top of hardened chocolate cracker layer. Chill 15 to 30 minutes.

Melt 6 ounces chocolate bar with butter and paraffin wax. Top the peanut butter layer with about 1 teaspoon chocolate mixture. Chill to harden. Refrigerate leftovers.

Yield: 3 dozen peanut butter cups

Answer 7

1 lb. powdered sugar

1 stick of margerine

A half bag of chocolate chips

1 cup of peanut butter

Melt margerine in a small pan

remove from heat

Stir in peanut butter

pour in mixing bowl

then gradually add powdered sugar (you may not need the full 1b. You want this mix to be thick but not to dry. When it starts to get to hard to stir all the white out, you have enough. Make sure you have stired well)

Next put chocolate chips on low in a well dried saucepan

when melted pour a little in a small pie tin ( I wash and save the tins from pot pies) (but if you don't have any you can line peanut butter lids with tin foil to shape, then gently pull out, with foil still attached and sit on plate then do another)

Next press p.b mixture in tight and top with chocolate.

Last put in fridge to harden.

Answer 8

Christmas Candy Reeses Cup
2 Sticks butter
1 C peanut butter
Melt and blend together then add:
1 box powdered sugar
Pour into 9x13 inch pan. Melt one large 10oz chocolate candy bar over top. Double the recipe and it will fit in a jelly roll pan.

Answer 9

When I was in middle school, the cafeteria made something like this, but in a sheet pan with the chocolate on top and the peanut better mixture on bottom- I got the recipe from them one time and it had graham cracker crumbs in it... so that would be the second recipe!



Peanut Butter Cups Copycat Recipe
From Stephanie Brown,

This recipe is a copycat recipe for Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. They take some time to make, but it's well worth it.
INGREDIENTS:
1/3 cup powdered sugar
1/4 cup sour cream
2 tablespoons heavy whipping cream
1/4 teaspoon vanilla flavoring
3/4 cup creamy peanut butter (not fresh or natural, they are too runny)
1 1/2 bags semi-sweet chocolate chips
36 foil mini muffin liners
PREPARATION:
Mix sugar, sour cream, whipping cream and vanilla.
Stir in peanut butter and refrigerate for 3 hours or longer.

Place muffin liners on cookie sheets.

Melt chocolate chips in microwave or double boiler.

Drop 1 teaspoon of melted chocolate into each liner.

Use a small knife or the tip of a spoon to spread the chocolate about half an inch up the side of the liner.

Refrigerate about half an hour or until chocolate is firm.

Remove liners from refrigerator and drop 1 teaspoon of peanut butter mix into each liner.

Flatten the mix with the back of a spoon, but do not spread to the very edge of the liners.

The remaining chocolate will have cooled and become thick, so remelt it in the microwave or double boiler.

When it is smooth, spoon 1 teaspoon more into each liner, or enough to cover the peanut butter completely and form a flat top.

Refrigerate or freeze until chocolate is firm.

Store in airtight containers in the refrigerator.

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COPY - CAT PEANUT BUTTER CUPS

1 1/2 c. graham cracker crumbs
1/2 lb. melted butter
1 c. peanut butter (plain or with nuts)
3/4 lb. powdered sugar
1 lg. (12 oz.) pkg. chocolate chips

Melt butter in small saucepan. In a small bowl, mix graham cracker crumbs, butter, peanut butter and powdered sugar until smooth. Press into 9 x 13 inch pan.
Melt chocolate chips and pour over top of peanut butter mixture. Let set. Cut into squares and serve in cupcake papers.
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this one is my own recipe for a gooey goodie that you might enjoy...

Reeses Treats
6 cups peanut butter cap'n crunch cereal (generic works fine)
1 container store bought vanilla or butter cream icing
2 cups marshmallows or 1 1/2 cup marshmallow cream
2 tbsp margarine (stick only)
1/2 container sotre bought chocolate icing

Over medium heat, melt butter in large pan, add marshmallows
and reduce heat to low, stir constantly until marshmallows are melted. Remove from heat and add vanilla frosting, stir well and add cereal.

pour into well buttered 9x13x2 pan, press firmly into pan so the cereal pieces are tight.

place 1/2 container chocolate icing in microwave safe bowl and nuke until runny- pour over top cereal bars in pan.

allow to cool at least an hour and cut into bars...

Answer 10

I know you didn't ask this, but Jell-o makes a no-bake dessert like PB cups that is FABULOUS!!! Look for it in the cake-mix area of the store.