Build Me Up, Peanut Butter Cup
- 12 paper muffin cups
- 1 (9.7-ounce) bar bittersweet chocolate, chopped (recommended: Scharffen Berger)
- 1 cup your favorite peanut butter
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar
- Pinch grey salt
- 12 to 15 dried banana chips
- Cut the top half off of the muffin cups so that they are shallower.
- Reserve 1/4 cup of the chopped chocolate.
- Pour the rest into a glass bowl and melt in the microwave at 50 percent power for 1 minute.
- Stir gently, and let sit for a minute or so.
- If the chocolate needs more melting, microwave again at half power for 30 seconds.
- Stir gently.
- Continue the process, stirring gently as you go.
- But be very careful not to overcook the chocolate.
- Temper the melted chocolate by stirring in the reserved 1/4 cup of chopped chocolate as it cools.
- This will 're-emulsify' the chocolate and enable it to harden at room temperature.
- Using a teaspoon, spoon a portion of the chocolate into the middle of a muffin cup.
- Draw the chocolate up the edges of the cup with the back of the spoon (or you can paint the chocolate on with a small paintbrush).
- Coat the entire inside of the muffin cup with chocolate and place it into a muffin tin.
- Repeat with the remaining muffin cups and then put the whole muffin tin in the refrigerator so that the chocolate hardens.
- Combine the peanut butter, powdered sugar, and salt in a mixer.
- Pour the mixture into a resealable plastic bag and seal.
- When the chocolate in the muffin cups has hardened, pop the sweetened peanut butter into the microwave on full power for 1 minute.
- This will soften up the peanut butter so that it easily flows into the cups.
- Cut a corner off the edge of the plastic bag.
- You can use this to pipe the peanut butter into each of the chocolate-coated cups.
- Put a banana chip on top of each cup.
- Put the candy in the refrigerator to harden the peanut butter.
- This should take 15 to 20 minutes.
- Serve.
paper, bittersweet chocolate, your favorite peanut butter, powdered sugar, grey salt, banana chips
Taken from www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/michael-chiarello/build-me-up-peanut-butter-cup-recipe2.html (may not work)