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.
How to Make Healthy Peanut Butter Cups
- Prep Time: 15 mins
- Cook Time: 15 mins
- Total Time: 30 minutes
- Yield: 12
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
- Fill mini muffin tin with muffin liners and spray with coconut oil spray and set aside.
- 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!
Notes
Store these cups in the freezer in an air-tight container or gallon-size ziplock.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1
- Calories: 92
- Sugar: 6
- Sodium: 13
- Fat: 6
- Protein: 3
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Marina @ A Dancer's Live-It says
These look AMAZE-BALLS. And you looked awesome on The Jason Show, congratulations!!!
Lee Hersh says
!!!! Thank you!!!
Megan @ A Continual Feast says
These look like the perfect after-dinner treat! I have some sunbutter I need to use up so I may sub that for the PB. Love your wifi router name, by the way!!
Lee Hersh says
o0oooo love sunbutter!!!
Bethany @ athletic avocado says
YASSSS for added protein in these already amazing pb cups! Peanut butter is great, but when sandwiched between dark chocolate with added protein, it becomes BAE!
Lee Hersh says
It’s heaven on Earth.
Danielle says
I am addicted to Justin’s dark chocolate PB cups! Time to make my own.
Lee Hersh says
OMG YASSSS. Those are so flipping good!
Summer says
Me too! That’s what brought me here! I couldn’t find Justin’s PB Cups while grocery shopping tonight and I’ve been having a serious PB cup craving (but suppose to be eating clean). VOILA! God answered a prayer and delivered me here! Just waiting for the first layer of chocolate to harden!
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Marsha says
I love all things PB and chocolate. These look so yummy and super easy. Can’t wait to try them!
Ellen @ My Uncommon Everyday says
I’m totally a dessert-after-dinner person, too. A lil something sweet to finish off the meal is what I look for, and these look perfect. Nothing better than chocolate and peanut butter 🙂
AZ@...And a Dash of Cinnamon says
I love making my own peanut butter protein cups! Way better tasting and for you than your typical reeses
Cassie says
I TOTALLY need my dark chocolate and nut butter fix after dinner–even breakfast and lunch since I’m that obsessed! I’ve been reducing my intake on peanut butter since it started inflaming my digestion, so I’ve been substituting for hazelnut butter, walnut butter and almond butter, which all taste great too!
Lee Hersh says
OMG. If I had to reduce my pb intake, I might die!
Carla says
Could you use chocolate protein powder in these?
Lee Hersh says
Hey Carla! Absolutely!
Melissa says
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! 🙂
Francesca @ twobackpacksoneadv.com says
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!!
Lee Hersh says
Yum yum yum!
Loril says
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
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Lee Hersh says
Yum!!!! I want to make some now 😛
marci says
omg… i just made these & already passed this recipe along to 2 pb cup lovers i know. so good & so easy.
Lee Hersh says
WOOOOO!!!!!!!!!! Thank you for sharing the love 🙂
Ashley says
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.
Summer says
Add more protein powder and mix well with a spoon or small spatula until you can form it into balls!
Summer says
These would make EXCELLENT gifts for gym-rat friends!
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vidhi says
What if you dont have coconut oil? can i use olive oil?
Lee Hersh says
Olive oil should work! Any kind of oil, for that matter!
Rebecca says
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
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Lee Hersh says
YAY!!!! Hope your event peeps love them.
Rachel says
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.
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Lee Hersh says
<3 glad you loved them!
Melisa says
Anyone know if you can use pb2 instead of regular peanut butter?
Lee Hersh says
Hi Melisa! You can not sub PB2 as you need the fat from the peanut butter for this recipe <3
Melisa says
Thank you!
Caroline says
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?
Lee Hersh says
I store them in the freezer!
Lisa Jarvis says
These sound great but I’m allergic to coconut, even coconut oil. What do you recommend as a substitution?