Kath Eats Real Food logo

You are here: Home / Weekend / Chocolate Cups

Chocolate Cups

IMG_1277Blog

IMG_1280Blog

They look like peanut butter cups, but they are not filled with peanut butter! I slaved over titles for this killer easy chocolatey recipe, but still can’t come up with a name that sounds appealing for the concept of stuffing anything awesome into a chocolate cup.

IMG_1275Blog

The cups are incredibly easy to make. Makes 4 dozen plus a little bark.

Start with 2 bags of high quality dark chocolate chips (or any kind of chocolate pieces). We used Ghirardelli 60% cacao chocolate chips.

Melt, melt away in a double boiler (just a heat-proof bowl over simmering water)

IMG_1175Blog

IMG_1176Blog

IMG_1180Blog

Fill a mini muffin tin with paper liners and spoon about a teaspoon of chocolate into the bottom of each one. Wait just a minute or two for the chocolate to slightly cool, then start to add your fillings:

IMG_1193BlogIMG_1200Blog

We chose four different fillings:

Coconut Butter + Coconut

About a teaspoon of coconut butter [either melted of flaked off] on the inside and coconut garnish on top

IMG_1165Blog

Butterscotch Chips

Fill to your heart’s desire! Garnish with a single chip.

IMG_1163Blog

Bourbon Walnut

IMG_1192Blog

For the walnut filling, combine about half a cup of chopped walnuts with 1 tablespoon of bourbon and 1 tablespoon of brown sugar

IMG_1190Blog

IMG_1197Blog

Nuttzo + Sea Salt

Use any nut butter you like! About a teaspoon in each – and sea salt on top! We should have put sea salt on ALL of them because it was by far the best.

IMG_1202Blog

After filling the bottom with chocolate and putting in your filling, refrigerate these for about 5-10 minutes – until the chocolate is hard.

Then it’s time to add the top layer of chocolate. Fill until the stuffing is covered, and then top with your garnishes –

IMG_1166BlogIMG_1169BlogIMG_1172Blog

Put them in the fridge again for 10-15 minutes until chocolate is hard.

If you have any leftover chocolate, either put it straight into your mouth all melty and soft, OR make a little bark!

IMG_1288Blog IMG_1294Blog

When your chocolate is hard, remove from muffin cup and platter up! [TWSS]

IMG_1276Blog

IMG_1283Blog

IMG_1278Blog

The flavor possibilities are endless! We almost did a crumbled bacon version – how good would that be!?

IMG_1282Blog

While you’re eating your chocolates, here’s some reading material. My mom writes the best cards!

IMG_1156Blog IMG_1157Blog

Brussels sprouts > chocolate!

Print

Chocolate Cups

They look like peanut butter cups, but they are not filled with peanut butter! I slaved over titles for this killer easy chocolatey recipe, but still can’t come up with a name that sounds appealing for the concept of stuffing anything awesome into a chocolate cup.
Servings 4 Dozen
Author Kath Younger

Ingredients

  • 2 bags of high quality dark chocolate chips or any kind of chocolate pieces.
  • coconut butter
  • coconut garnish
  • butterscotch Chips
  • 1/2 cup of chopped walnuts
  • 1 tablespoon of bourbon
  • 1 tablespoon of brown sugar
  • nut butter
  • sea salt

Instructions

  • Start with 2 bags of high quality dark chocolate chips (or any kind of chocolate pieces). We used Ghirardelli 60% cacao chocolate chips.
  • Melt, melt away in a double boiler (just a heat-proof bowl over simmering water)

Fill a mini muffin tin with paper liners and spoon about a teaspoon of chocolate into the bottom of each one. Wait just a minute or two for the chocolate to slightly cool, then start to add your fillings:

  • After filling the bottom with chocolate and putting in your filling, refrigerate these for about 5-10 minutes – until the chocolate is hard.
  • Then it’s time to add the top layer of chocolate. Fill until the stuffing is covered, and then top with your garnishes
  • Put them in the fridge again for 10-15 minutes until chocolate is hard.
  • If you have any leftover chocolate, either put it straight into your mouth all melty and soft, OR make a little bark!
  • When your chocolate is hard, remove from muffin cup and platter up! 

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Elise says

    i love the chocolate cups idea! i always forget how simple it is to make your own delicious treats to bring to with you somewhere or to nosh on yourself 🙂

    and i think next time you should definitely use bacon. bacon is good for the soul, and makes everything just that much better 😉

    Reply

  26. Andrea @ reallifeinrofo says

    This is SO my kind of recipe – VISUALLY APPEALING, EASY, TASTY and the KIDS can help choose the fillings. My daughter and I just watched 2 food network “bacon” shows. I think that might be a fun way to try the bacon/chocolate combo!

    Reply

  27. Heather says

    I have to ask…is the teeny tiny TWSS via Michael from the Office? Or is there something equally as funny I should know about?

    Reply

  29. Lauren says

    I LOVE homemade candy cups, and your idea to use leftover melted chocolate for bark is a fantastic one. I made white chocolate pumpkin cups back around Halloween (I think Laura made them for you?!) and just made some white chocolate peanut butter cups for the PB&Co. blog. I’m making some with your filling ideas next!

    Reply

  38. Beth says

    The chocolate looks amazing and super easy! Must try soon.

    I love that your mom sent you $20. Mine just did the same thing for our 3 month wedding anniversary – she has sent us something for each month we’ve been married so far (we hope she keeps it up) . It should be noted, we’d been dating for 4 years before we actually tied the knot (and had been friends for 3 years before that!), but I guess in her mind, now it’s official. Ha.

    Happy Valentine’s Day!

    Reply

  40. Ilana says

    Hahaha love KERF Mom’s card!! Our Vday dinner includes kale, brussels, AND chocolate. Triple win!
    Homemade chocolate cups are the best – I love your butter scotch ones, such a good idea!

    Reply

  42. Ann says

    These look great – and so easy! I tried making peanut butter cups a while ago, and they would have been great except I made them without liners and had to chip them out of the pan with a knife. Lesson learned.

    Reply

  44. Amber K says

    Does the remainder of the chocolate stay melted while you put the cups in the fridge to harden for the first time? Do you have to keep stirring it so it doesn’t burn?

    Sorry for the multiple questions…I have never made anything like this before!

    Reply

  54. ruby red says

    Yum, this is a great V-day idea! I just made two personal cups for myself with 1 oz. dark chocolate (askinosie.com). I used two big Silicon cupcake liners and stuffed one with a tsp of Naturally Nutty Pepita Sun Butter and the other was filled with a dried fig pieces and hemp granola! The Nat.Nutty one was to die for!

    Reply

  55. Melissa says

    Love Mom’s card! Good to know she’s lookin’ out for ya! 😉

    The bourbon walnut chocolates look amazing! My parents brought back some bourbon bacon dark chocolate from Napa over the summer and it was one of the best things I’ve ever tasted! At $12 a bar, though, it better be!

    Reply

  59. Jen @ keepitsimplefoods.com says

    My mom used to make something very similar when I was growing up. She was big into making candy and this was a really simple treat she’d whip up for bake sales and the like. She also made the most amazing chocolate turtles…that reminds me, I need to raid her old candy molds for stat!

    Maybe you could call them “mystery butter cups” and let tasters try to figure out which nut butter is inside? Or you could go with “chocolate surprise cups” because the inside is a surprise. Or, simply calling them “not peanut butter cups” could work too. 🙂

    Reply

  60. C. says

    love that your mom is Buzz!!
    I think its an older generation thing cause my grandpa was a Buzz and so are some of my later generation clients.

    Reply

  67. Hannah says

    Loving the butterscotch and Nuttzo ones the best – probably because I can’t get butterscotch chips or Nuttzo in Australia, so they seem exotic!

    Reply

  71. kell says

    YUM!! well, since your post yesterday, all i can think about is chocolate goat cheese . . . do you think it would work to put a dollop of goat cheese in those cups??

    Reply

  72. Namaste Gurl says

    So easy, so creative. I thought you used nooch or coconut milk- usually what bloggers use in chocolate cups. I’ll have to give these a shot in the near future- after I get over all the vday chocolate insomnia, that is 🙂

    Reply

  74. Nikki T says

    Mmmmm….I made these last night for our V-Day dessert. I went with Skor bits and PB with sea salted tops, both milk and dark chocolate as the Hubby doesn’t appreciate the dark stuff! They were amazing! Served with strawberries…mmmmm!

    Reply

  76. Aneesha says

    those look awesome. I made Andrew chocolate covered strawberries for valentines day. He then proceeded to dump apples walnuts ect. into the double boiler melted chocolate and make what he called chocolate covered turds! hope you guys had a great day!

    Reply

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.