What’s better than a peanut butter cup? A peanut butter cup amped with extra protein! Make these delicious protein peanut butter cups with just a few ingredients!
Fun Fact Friday: My wifi router is called “Peanut Butter Lover.”
So if you’re my neighbor….that’s me!
In all honesty though- I have LOVED peanut butter since I can remember. I literally put that shit on everything. Cross my heart, hope to die, stick a needle in my eye…if my kids are allergic to peanut butter I might have a heart attack. I don’t know what it is these days, but the number of peanut allergies has seemed to go through the ROOF. One of my girlfriends is a kindergarten teacher and she was telling me that her room is a “no nut room.” SAD FACE.
So I am a total I NEED DESSERT AFTER DINNER kind of person…and if I’m going to go for the peanut butter cup, I might as well go for a protein peanut butter cup made with dark chocolate AMIRIGHT?
Guys.
You only need a few ingredients to make these puppies.
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I used Designer Protein – 100% Vanilla Whey Protein Powder. I prefer the taste and flavor of whey protein in comparison to others (but I don’t discriminate!). Thus- I haven’t tried any other protein powders for this recipe 🙂
Feel free to use any nut butter for this recipe OR to use vegan/semi-sweet chocolate chips.
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup peanut butter creamy
- 2-3 tablespoons vanilla protein powder depending on how drippy your peanut butter is
- 1 cup dark chocolate chips
- 1 tablespoons coconut oil
Instructions
- In a medium-size bowl mix peanut butter and protein powder together. Start with 2 tablespoons of protein powder and go up from there. The amount of protein powder depends on how drippy your peanut butter is to begin with.
- Next, separate the peanut butter and protein mixture into 12 marble sized balls (~1 teaspoon), and set aside.
- In a microwave-safe bowl, melt dark chocolate chips and coconut oil, stirring every 45 seconds until chocolate is smooth.
- Scoop one teaspoon of the chocolate mixture onto the bottom of each muffin liner. Then, place muffin tin into the freezer for about 10-15 minutes or until chocolate hardens.
- Next, place one protein peanut butter ball on top of each hardened chocolate, carefully flattening the ball with your finger until it has a smooth top.
- Finally, add two more teaspoons of the melted chocolate on top of the peanut butter to each liner to complete your peanut butter cup
- Place muffin tin in the freezer for another 10-15 minutes until chocolate is hardened.
- Enjoy!
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Haven’t done this yet but assuming it’s great, I have a question on a variation to make the filling sweeter. Have you ever added powdered sugar to the PB mix or will it not work with the protein powder? Would love BOTH in one and use the PB chips instead of chocolate. thank you for the recipe!
These were delicious and so easy to make! I used chocolate protein powder instead of the vanilla as that’s the flavour I have at home. It worked so great! Better than Reece’s. Thanks!!!!
I love how easy and delicious this recipe is!!!❤️
Excellent stuff! Thanks for the inspiration!
Oh, hello my sweet peanut butter love bugs. I have a variation of these peanut butter cups in my freezer pretty much at all times! The recipe is super forgiving if you want to make variations to taste or for ingredients that you have on hand. Perfect dessert or snack!
thanks for sharing to telling about this recipe.
Wow! looks delicious. I would try making these protein peanut butter cups for sure! Thanks for sharing Lee!
These sound great but I’m allergic to coconut, even coconut oil. What do you recommend as a substitution?
How do you typically store these? I have them in the fridge but the chocolate gets so hard that they don’t bite nicely (trying to savor it and not one bite it!). Would they keep at room temp?
I store them in the freezer!
Anyone know if you can use pb2 instead of regular peanut butter?
Hi Melisa! You can not sub PB2 as you need the fat from the peanut butter for this recipe <3
Thank you!
Finally I can replace my chocolate peanut butter malt ball habit. These are sooooo good. I also used Lily’s Chocolate Chips sweetned with Stevja like someone else said, but I just microwaved them to melt. And I used Jay Robb’s protein powder. One big piece was plenty of sweetness to combat my craving. Just three points on Weight Watchers, which is well worth it. Thank you! I can’t wait to try your other recipes.
<3 glad you loved them!
Girl, YAS!!!! Thank you so much for sharing this!!! It turned out freaking amazing and I”m using these at an event tomorrow. Love, love, love this recipe!!!!! <3<3<3
YAY!!!! Hope your event peeps love them.
What if you dont have coconut oil? can i use olive oil?
Olive oil should work! Any kind of oil, for that matter!
These would make EXCELLENT gifts for gym-rat friends!
How do you get the peanut butter to roll into a ball? Mine is just a goopy mess that sticks to the spoon or my hand and never forms a hardened ball.
Add more protein powder and mix well with a spoon or small spatula until you can form it into balls!
omg… i just made these & already passed this recipe along to 2 pb cup lovers i know. so good & so easy.
WOOOOO!!!!!!!!!! Thank you for sharing the love 🙂
Hello Lee,
I just made these in preparation to add them to the banana ice-cream and they are soo good.
I used pure peanut butter, hemp protein and added a little stevia and vanilla extract.
Melted Lilly’s dark chocolate stevia sweetened chips over a dbl boiler.
Thanks for your website and inspiration! Loril
Yum!!!! I want to make some now 😛
I bet my Vanilla Shakeology would be great to add to these yummy little pb cups too! I am so excited to give it a try 🙂 Thanks for sharing!!
Yum yum yum!
Oh this recipe looks soooo good! Love peanut butter cups! 🙂 thankyou for sharing this recipe! Healthy eating is so important for your body! That along with regular massages makes your body happy! 🙂
Could you use chocolate protein powder in these?
Hey Carla! Absolutely!