If you love peanut butter cups, you’re going to fall hard to this healthier, homemade version with added banana. Made with just a handful of wholesome ingredients like dark chocolate chips, coconut oil, natural peanut butter and banana. They strike the perfect balance of salty, sweet and healthy, making them the perfect bite you can feel good about serving the kids.
Easily turn these into a school-safe snack by swapping out the peanut butter for pumpkin seed or sunflower seed butter!
Ingredients you will need
- 1 1/4 cups pure, dark chocolate chips with at least 50% cacao
- 1 Tbsp coconut oil
- 12 tsp natural peanut butter
- 1 banana
- coarse sea salt
Equipment you will need
- 12 cup mini muffin tin
- mini paper liners
- small pot
- stainless or glass bowl
How to make peanut butter cups
- Melt the chocolate chips with coconut oil in a double boiler by placing a stainless steel or glass bowl over a pot of boiling water. Stir occasionally to prevent the chocolate from burning. Reduce the heat, if necessary
- Line a mini muffin with paper liners and spoon a small amount of melted chocolate into the bottom of each cup. Use the spoon to smooth the chocolate around the sides of the cup
- Add a thin slice of banana and a teaspoon of natural peanut butter. Top with more melted chocolate and coarse sea salt
- Freeze the peanut butter cups for an hour. You can leave them in the freezer for several months, or transfer them to a glass storage container with a lid. Keep refrigerated for up to 5 days
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