Chocolate Coated Peanut Butter Hearts are PERFECT for Valentine’s Day! They style similar to a Reese’s milk chocolate peanut butter coronary heart… however one million instances higher as a result of they’re selfmade! And their lovely coronary heart form is certain to make anybody swoon!
Chocolate and Peanut Butter Hearts
Valentine’s day is rapidly approaching, my buddies! As a substitute of shopping for boxed chocolate from the candy store (or worse, grocery retailer), let’s make some, okay?
Making selfmade sweet is a enjoyable and rewarding course of. And I feel the outcomes communicate for themselves! I imply, simply have a look at these attractive chocolate coated peanut butter hearts!!! Who wouldn’t swoon over a field of those?! I make them – together with my lemon sugar cookie hearts – yearly!
Peanut Butter Hearts: Components
- Confectioner’s Sugar: For the most effective outcomes, sift the sugar earlier than use.
- Creamy Peanut Butter: My model advice is JIF. Don’t sub chunky peanut butter or pure peanut butter on this recipe.
- Unsalted Butter: Carry it to room temperature earlier than use.
- Salt: Effective sea salt works finest.
- Vanilla Extract: In a pinch, you may skip this.
- Milk: Entire milk works finest however any milk will work.
- Chocolate: Use darkish or milk chocolate, based mostly in your style choice.
- Pink Nonpareils: If you will discover them, they add a cute festive really feel to those peanut butter hearts.
Shaping the Hearts
- You need your dough to be mushy and simply pinched collectively, with out being moist or sticky. I like to consider it as playdoh; it must be just a bit crumbly however effortlessly obey your arms when molded into form.
- If the dough feels too sticky, merely add slightly extra confectioners’ sugar. If the dough is just too dry a splash of milk is your pal.
- You need to use a small coronary heart formed cookie cutter to make the peanut butter hearts.
- Or scoop out a ball of the filling, press flat with the palm of your hand., and form it right into a coronary heart.
- An important half is simply keep in mind to not make them too skinny. They need to be at the very least 1/4 of an inch in thickness. This helps them hold their form throughout the chocolate dipping course of.
Dip the Hearts in Chocolate
- You’ll dip the hearts after you form and freeze them. You have to freeze them for about an hour and a half.
- Freezing is essential as a result of the dough is mushy and can simply unfastened it’s form when you dunk it earlier than they’re frozen.
- I choose semi-sweet or darkish chocolate for this recipe, for the reason that peanut butter filling is already fairly candy. However you should utilize milk chocolate if desired.
- You possibly can enhance the hearts with pink and white sprinkles, flaky sea salt, or go away them plain.
I tailored this recipe from my Salted Chocolate Coated Peanut Butter Eggs!
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