Peanut Butter Cups
- 1 c. smooth peanut butter
- 1/2 lb. butter or margarine
- 1 1/2 lb. confectioners sugar
- 1 1/2 tsp. vanilla
- 12 oz. semi-sweet chocolate morsels
- 1/2 block or 1/8 lb. paraffin
- Cream margarine, peanut butter, confectioners sugar and vanilla together.
- Melt chocolate bits and paraffin together and keep melted over hot water.
- Place small amount of chocolate in each cup of miniature muffin papers or tins.
- Shape rounded teaspoon of creamed mixture and place on soft chocolate in pan. Drizzle chocolate over confectioners-peanut butter patties to cover.
- Chill and remove from pan.
- To remove from tins, warm bottoms of muffin cups with towel wet in hot water.
- Continue until all mixture is shaped.
- To haste shaping, roll up small balls of creamed mixture and dip in melted chocolate to make bonbons.
- To make the pie, you would probably pour the creamed mixture into the graham cracker shell and then spread top with the milk chocolate bits and run under broiler until melted. Spread to edges with knife and chill.
smooth peanut butter, butter, confectioners sugar, vanilla, semisweet chocolate morsels, paraffin
Taken from www.cookbooks.com/Recipe-Details.aspx?id=1024488 (may not work)