But these chocolate peanut butter cups aren't for me, they're my Valentine's treat to Joe. He likes Reese's peanut butter cups, but he loved these far more. (I promise not to make any sickening Valentine's lovey-dovey talk.) They're hand-made with quality ingredients, see, not some cheap factory-plunked creation. They'd also make a great gluten-free treat.
These confections are easy to make but require a bit of care. I combined two recipes I had found. Melted bittersweet chocolate is brushed on the inside of paper mini-muffin cups, refrigerated, a second layer is brushed on, and they are refrigerated again. At this point one recipe says to peel off the paper, but this resulted in breakage because the unfilled cups are too fragile. So I piped the peanut butter mixture into them and froze them briefly, and then removing the paper was easier.
Be quick (the chocolate melts on your fingers), but very gentle when removing the papers. Expect some breakage and plan on making extras. Normally I'd console myself over breakage by eating the pieces, but like I said this isn't my kind of treat. Then hide the broken pieces somewhere and present the prettiest cups to your lucky Valentine.
