I posted this photo on Tumblr and those Tumblr vegans loved it. Come on, I got 21 notes! I know that doesn't compare to the few thousand or so notes Animals Talking in All Caps gets. (And no, I'm not jealous, why do you ask?) But for me it's pretty good. Someone even asked for the recipe! It's not a recipe as such, but here it is, cross-posted from Tumblr:
It’s really easy! They’re just labour-intensive—it usually takes me an
hour or so to make a batch. Mix some peanut butter with some maple syrup
or agave—maybe 1/2 cup peanut butter to 1/4 cup agave. It’ll thicken
and get hard to stir, but that’s what you want, so it won’t leak out of
the chocolate cup when you bite it. Melt vegan chocolate chips or
semi-sweet baking chocolate in the microwave—about a cup or one and a
quarter cups. I usually nuke for a minute then stir and repeat until
it’s melted and smooth. The key to getting them to look right is to use
silicone muffin/cupcake cups. Smooth some melted chocolate into the cups
until you’ve used up about half your chocolate. With a spoon, scoop out
some of the peanut butter mixture and gently use another spoon to scoop
it into a chocolate-d silicone cup. Repeat until you’re out of peanut
butter mixture, or you’ve used up all your choclate-d cups. (If you have
leftover melted chocolate or peanut butter mixture, you can make more
of what you don’t have—until you run out of silicone cups!) Cover the
peanut butter mixture scoops in the cups with more melted chocolate—just
enough to cover. If the chocolate has cooled while you were scooping
out the peanut butter mixture, do another nuke-and-stir to melt it
again. When you’ve run out, you’re done! Just allow the peanut butter
cups to cool so that the chocolate hardens, but if you’re impatient you
can put them in the fridge for a few minutes instead of leaving them at
room temperature. Pop them out of the silicone and if you’re not eating
them the same day, you can leave them on the counter, but cover them
with plastic wrap. Enjoy!
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Peanut butter cups of awesome
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