Peanut Butter 'Cups'

Sally Schneider

These divine peanut butter "cups" are nothing more than chunky peanut butter sandwiched between two milk chocolate disks (called feves) that are made by fine chocolate companies like Valhrona and Guittard, for making melting easy. (Valhrona’s are definitely more perfumed and deeply flavored.) It’s not really a recipe.

Instructions

You just spread a bit of peanut butter on a disk and place another disk over it to make a sandwich. (Because chocolate turns gray when refrigerated, it's best to make these up within a day or so of serving or giving them. You can make a bunch in no time.)

I make these unexpected sweets to serve at the end of dinner parties and to give as gifts, layered into small flat boxes with sheets of parchment or wax paper. (If you don't have any little boxes you can re-use, you can often buy them for a few cents at pastry shops.) Instead of peanut butter, you can make the candies with Hazelnut or Pistachio Praline – roasted nuts that are ground with sugar to a paste. Valhrona milk chocolate “feves” are available at Whole Foods Markets, or by mail-order.

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A former chef, Sally Schneider has won numerous awards—including four James Beard awards—for her books and magazine writing. She is creator of the lifestyle blog the improvised life, a featured blogger on The Atlantic Monthly's Food Blog, and author of The Improvisational Cook and A New Way to Cook. She has served as a contributing editor to both Saveur and Food & Wine, and her work has appeared in The Los Angeles Times Magazine, Saveur, Food & Wine, SELF and Connoisseur.