Chocolate-Peanut Butter Cups
- For the base
- 2 ounces (50 grams) soft dark brown sugar
- 7 ounces (200 grams) icing sugar
- 2 ounces (50 grams) butter, softened
- 7 ounces (200 grams) smooth peanut butter
- 7 ounces (200 grams) milk chocolate
- 3 1/2 ounces (100 grams) dark chocolate
- Gold buttons and edible gold stars to decorate, or other decorations of your choice
- Place all the ingredients for the base in the bowl of a food processor.
- Blend the mixture until the mixture takes on a sandy texture.
- Place 48 gold petit four cases in sets of miniature tart tins or mini-muffin tins (each indent about 1 3/4-inches in diameter).
- Use 1 teaspoon of the base mixture to fill the bases of the petit four cases.
- Press the sandy mixture down into the cases as best you can to form a layer at the bottom of each paper case.
- Place the milk chocolate and dark chocolate together into a heatproof bowl.
- Suspend the bowl over a pan of simmering water (the water should not touch the bottom of the bowl).
- Melt the chocolate gently while stirring.
- Spoon teaspoonfuls of the melted chocolate onto the top of each of the sandy bases of the petit four cases.
- Decorate the tops of the chocolate covered peanut butter cups with either a gold button or gold star in the middle of each and transfer them to the fridge.
- Let them set in the fridge, for about 30 minutes.
- To serve, arrange the chocolate peanut butter cups in their cases on a clean plate.
base, brown sugar, icing sugar, butter, smooth peanut butter, milk chocolate, chocolate, edible gold
Taken from www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/nigella-lawson/chocolate-peanut-butter-cups-recipe.html (may not work)