Chocolate Lined Peanut Butter Hearts are PERFECT for Valentine’s Day! They style similar to a Reese’s milk chocolate peanut butter coronary heart… however 1,000,000 occasions higher as a result of they’re selfmade! And their cute coronary heart form is certain to make anybody swoon!
Chocolate and Peanut Butter Hearts
Valentine’s day is shortly approaching, my mates! As an alternative 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 take 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 very best 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: Convey it to room temperature earlier than use.
- Salt: Advantageous 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 yow will discover them, they add a cute festive really feel to those peanut butter hearts.
Shaping the Hearts
- You need your dough to be comfortable 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 palms when molded into form.
- If the dough feels too sticky, merely add a bit extra confectioners’ sugar. If the dough is simply too dry a splash of milk is your good friend.
- 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.
- Crucial half is simply keep in mind to not make them too skinny. They need to be a minimum of 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. It is advisable freeze them for about an hour and a half.
- Freezing is essential as a result of the dough is comfortable and can simply free it’s form when you dunk it earlier than they’re frozen.
- I desire semi-sweet or darkish chocolate for this recipe, for the reason that peanut butter filling is already fairly candy. However you need to use milk chocolate if desired.
- You’ll be able to beautify the hearts with pink and white sprinkles, flaky sea salt, or depart them plain.
I tailored this recipe from my Salted Chocolate Lined Peanut Butter Eggs!
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