Have your healthy peanut butter cup and rice crispy treat too! These rice crispy peanut butter cups are made with just 5 simple ingredients and make for the perfect after dinner healthy treat.

IT’S HERE! Nut Butter Cup Week 2018 is finally here and we’re so excited to kick off this week of healthy nut butter cup recipes with one of our absolute favorites — Rice Crispy Peanut Butter Cups!
Nut Butter Cup Week 2018
If this is the first time you’re hearing about Nut Butter Cup Week, you’re in for a treat. Pun intended. For the next 6 days, we’ll be sharing a healthy nut butter cup recipe on Fit Foodie Finds along with giveaways galore on Instagram. If you’re not yet signed up for Nut Butter Cup Week emails, do it HERE! 1. You’ll be given early recipe access to each nut butter cup recipe before they go live AND 2. you’ll be entered in to win a $200 Amazon gift card + the ultimate nut butter cup survival pack. HELLS TO THE YES.
We’re clearly ecstatic you’re here because we know you guys love nut butter cups just as much as we do.

This particular recipe is one that we decided to test about 4 times just because we loved them so much. It’s not so much that the recipe needed tweaking, it’s just that these rice crispy peanut butter cups are the SHIT. When we first had the idea of nut butter cup week, we took it to Instagram for ideas and adding Rice Krispies was one that popped up a few times. Probably the most genius add-in you guys could have thought of so thank you for that!
For these delicious, crunchy peanut butter cups you need just a few ingredients. 5 main ones, that is!
What You Need
If you can’t do peanuts, I suggest swapping for almond butter or cashew butter. You can also sub maple syrup for the honey to make this recipe vegan.



Crunchy Rice Crispy Peanut Butter Cups
Have your healthy peanut butter cup and rice crispy treat too! These rice crispy peanut butter cups are made with just 5 simple ingredients and make for the perfect after dinner healthy treat.
Ingredients
- 2/3 cup all-natural peanut butter, creamy (any nut butter will work)
- 1/4 cup coconut oil, melted
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/4 cup honey (option to sub maple syrup)
- 1/4 cup Rice Krispies Cereal
- sea salt (for topping)
Optional Chocolate Drizzle
- 1/4 cup dark chocolate chips
- 1 teaspoon coconut oil
Instructions
- First, line muffin tin with cupcake liners and set aside.
- Place peanut butter, melted coconut oil, vanilla, and honey into a medium-size bowl and mix until combined.
- Then, add in rice crispy cereal and mix again.
- Using a tablespoon as your scoop, scoop a heaping tablespoon of batter into each muffin liner. Repeat until you’ve evenly distributed into 12 liners.
- Place in freezer for at least 20 minutes or until firm.
- Prepare optional chocolate drizzle by placing chocolate chips and coconut oil into a small bowl and microwaving for 30 seconds to a minute, or until melted. Stir until combined.
- Once the peanut butter cups have firmed up in the freezer, remove and drizzle with chocolate mixture and a sprinkle of sea salt.
Tips & Notes
- If your batter isn’t easily poured into the cupcake tin, add more melted coconut oil. You do not want your batter to be too thick and sometimes thickness is dependent on how oily your nut butter is.
- Option to replace honey with maple syrup.
- Option to replace peanut butter with any other nut butter such as cashew or almond.
- Store in the freezer for up to 3 months.
- Nutrition information does not include chocolate drizzle.
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 cup Calories: 146 Sugar: 6 Sodium: 57 Fat: 12 Carbohydrates: 9 Fiber: 1 Protein: 3Keywords: crunchy peanut butter cups

These are truly amazing!! My 3 very active kids love these as a sweet treat! I use my mini muffin pan to make smaller ones and it works great!
I love that they are made from minimal ingredients and taste better than Reese’s!
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Oh loveeee the idea of using a mini muffin pan for these!
I love peanut butter and am always looking for new things to try with it. OMG this is so good. Better start working out again…
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These are so addicting!! They’re super smooth with a little crunch. I love them so much and want to eat all of them at once. Thank you!
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Girl I am totally with you!
I’m definitely trying these out next week for university hehe i love these snacks. Thanks for sharing!
Xoxo <3
These are delicious… what’s not to like here?! I cut the recipe in half (due to amount of chocolate I had on hand) and made 12 mini-sized versions. Perfect for something small and sweet after a meal to curb my sweet tooth. Thanks!
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One of my favorite recipes!
Excellent recipe for something quick and delicious that looks professional… also tried with half the honey and they were great as well to e enjoyed by diabetics
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good idea, i will do it at home.
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If I wanted to take out the sweetener due to dietary restrictions, would I need to add more of the other ingredients to make the consistency okay? Or do you think I’ll be fine just omitting the honey/maple syrup? 🙂
I think you’d be fine omitting!
great. You can share how you do with a youtube video
these are SO good! I’ve been sharing your website and Instagram page with my workout friends-love your recipes! Thanks for providing a yummy healthier alternative!
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YAY! Thank you for the love <3
Do you have to keep them in the freezer? Or can they be left at room temperature?
They have to be stored in the freezer or else the will melt 🙂
OMG! They look so delicious!!! Next party I`ll be treating every one!
I’m a Reese lover so I would definitely try this recipe! I’m not quite sure about the coconut though but worth trying. 🙂
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Ok, I am excited about these recipes… BUT I really don’t like coconut….smell, taste, feel …nothing…I have tried, but I have never been able to do anything with coconut. Is there an alternative to the oil??
I hope Lee won’t mind me answering your question but I’d try cocoa butter. It has the same hardening/consistency properties and should work fine here.
Oh! I’ve never actually baked or cooked with cocoa butter. It would be interesting to try!
Whaaat?? Get onto it, girl! Seriously, I like coconut oil but cocoa butter is an entirely different kind of magic.
You could also use refined coconut oil. It doesn’t smell or taste like coconut.
Wow that looks amazing!