Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Clean Chocolate Peanut Butter Coconut Cups Recipe

Hey guys, it is that time of the year I start cleaning up my diet. I still try to come up with healthy treats for my kids and husband (and me, shhh). Anyways a while back I posted recipes of my "clean" peanut butter cups and Almond Joy cups. I was craving something sweet yesterday, so I decided to combine the best of both worlds.

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Clean Chocolate Peanut Butter Coconut Cups

The outcome was Ah-mazing! Here's the recipe...

Ingredients:
2 cups dark chocolate chips. I used 85% Ghirardelli chips
2 cups unsweetened coconut
3/4 cup nut butter. I used natural peanut butter.
1 tbsp. honey
Coconut oil
Non stick spray. I used coconut oil spray.
Mini muffin pan. Mine holds 24 cups

Start with the best part THE CHOCOLATE

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Melt 3/4 cup chocolate chips with a 1/2 teaspoon of coconut oil in microwave. Spray a mini muffin pan with non stick spray. Use a spoon to fill the bottoms of a mini muffin pan with chocolate. Use just enough chocolate to coat the bottom. Place pan in freezer to let chocolate set. Make the middle.

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While chocolate is setting. Mix coconut, peanut butter, honey, and 1 tbsp. coconut oil in food processor or high powered blender till mixed. About 6 minutes.

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Pull chocolate from freezer. Spoon mix or use hands to fill cups and push it flat. your chocolate should be solid at this point so the mixture and chocolate won't mix. Place back in freezer for a few minutes.

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Melt the remainder of the chocolate with 1/2 teaspoon coconut oil. Pull the pan out of the freezer and fill the remainder of the cup to the top with melted chocolate.

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Place back in freezer to harden. At least 15 minutes. Remove from freezer. Use a sharp knife and pop the cups out of pan and place on a plate or container. Keep refrigerated, they will melt at room temperature due to the coconut oil.

Enjoy!

Do you have a favorite healthy sweet recipe?

6 comments:

  1. Ahh! I want to make these right now. And of course now I'm hungry for lunch too. Looks super delicious!

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  2. These look delicious, although I'd probably make them without the coconut. Just not a fan of it.

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  3. These sound amazing! My MIL used to make nut cups for Christmas...maybe these will be a nice substitute?

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  4. These look amazing! Chocolate plus coconut plus peanut butter equals pure indulgence.

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  5. Jennifer Pug PugJuly 22, 2015 at 7:36 AM

    Oh, wow! I wish I was better at chocolate making because this look divine!

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  6. Rachel @RunningRachelJuly 22, 2015 at 7:48 AM

    This looks really yummy! chocolate peanutbutter treats are my fav!

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