If you don’t love peanut butter cups, well I’d have to admit I don’t understand you (unless you’re allergic, then you get a pass). Peanut butter and chocolate is a national obsession and I would choose this probably over any other candy. Being that I had caramel leftover, I thought about combining it with peanut butter for an ultimate treat and what if I added a cookie to make it taste like a Twix? But what cookie? I certainly didn’t want to make one from scratch and then it came to us. The Lorna Doone! That classic cookie with a buttery short texture is actually vegan! Plus it fit in the bottom of a muffin cup. Perfect. Mission accomplished.
So I’m calling this easy but that’s providing you already have my caramel made. You can find that recipe here. After that, it’s a breeze. If you want shiny and glossy chocolate, you may want to read my other recipe on how to easily temper chocolate here.
You can use semisweet, bittersweet chocolate or a combo of both. I prefer mixing as sometimes semi is too sweet and bitter is well, too bitter.
You could use all caramel in this if you reduce the amount of cream in my recipe to make it thicker. It’s too loose on it’s own, so the addition of peanut butter makes it the perfect consistency. You could certainly use almond butter or even hazelnut butter too which come to think of it, sounds pretty amazing. I hope you enjoy these!
Easy Vegan Peanut Butter Caramel Cookie Cups
6
servings30
minutesMake this or don’t, I don’t care. Your loss.
Ingredients
1/4 cup of my easy vegan caramel sauce (Link in story above)
1/4 cup salted natural peanut butter
12 oz melted chocolate (easy temper method link in story above)
6 Lorna Doone or other vegan shortbread cookies
Flaked salt to top (optional)
Directions
- Line a muffin pan with 6 paper cups. I use If You Care brand.
- Mix together the caramel and peanut butter until combined.
- Place a small teaspoon of melted chocolate in the bottom of each liner then slam the pan on the counter to help it even out.
- Place a cookie on top of the chocolate then add a heaping tablespoon of the peanut butter caramel mixture on top. Place in the fridge for 10 minutes to set.
- Once set, add enough chocolate on top to cover completely then add a pinch of flaked salt on top if desired.
- Refrigerate until set.
Notes
- I prefer natural salted peanut butter but you could use any kind really.
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