Peanut Butter Cups

Total Time: 25 mins Preparation Time: 25 mins

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar
• 1 cup creamy peanut butter (or crunchy peanut butter, if desired)
• 1/2 cup light brown sugar, firmly packed
• 2 tablespoons butter, softened no substitutions
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 cups milk chocolate chips (or semi-sweet if desired)
• 1/4 cup shortening

Recipe

• 1 in a large bowl, beat together sugar, peanut butter, brown sugar, butter and vanilla until well-combined in a smooth mixture. set aside.
• 2 in a medium saucepan over low heat, melt choc chips and shortening, stirring frequently until melted and smooth.
• 3 pour teaspoonfuls of melted chocolate into paper-lined mini muffin cups to fill about 1/3 way.
• 4 drop rounded teaspoons of peanut butter mixture into each cup over chocolate.
• 5 top peanut butter mixture with additional teaspoon or so of melted chocolate (enough to fill cup and cover peanut butter mixture).
• 6 chill until set.
• 7 makes about 4 dozen.