Easy Vegan Three Ingredient Peanut Clusters

It’s national peanut clusters day so I’m making a super easy three ingredient sweet you can whip up in no time to celebrate! A ‘Peanut Cluster’ is a type of candy that mixes melted chocolate and peanuts. We’re making them completely vegan and milk chocolatey and delicious. There are actually several versions of peanut clusters including caramel clusters, butterscotch clusters and chocolate peanut clusters which is what we’re making today as they are the simplest.

We only need three ingredients but make sure they’re high quality. We’re using roasted cocktail style peanuts (they’re more flavorful than dry roasted), good semisweet or bittersweet chocolate and vegan white chocolate chips. That’s it. The white mixed with the dark chocolate makes a milk chocolate-like flavor that’s pretty darn tasty if I do say so myself.

To make it even easier, I melt the chocolate in the microwave but you could certainly use a double boiler too if you prefer. The chocolate melted in about one and a half minutes for me but all ovens vary. It’s best to stop cooking while there are still some whole chips left and let the residual heat finish melting the chips. If you over cook chocolate it can seize up and burn and there’s no coming back from that unfortunately.

After the chocolate is melted you mix in the nuts and then scoop into patties onto a parchment or wax paper lined sheet pan to cool. You can also sprinkle with some flaky salt like I did.

You can set these quickly by placing in the fridge so you can be eating these in under 20 minutes most likely! I hope you enjoy them. Peanuts and chocolate are my all time favorite combination. If allergic, you could use another nut or even sunflower seeds. Enjoy!

Easy Vegan Three Ingredient Peanut Clusters

Recipe by Kreg

5.0 from 2 votes

Servings

15

servings

Prep time

10

minutes

Cooking time

2

minutes

The easiest and most delicious peanut cluster with a milk chocolate flavor!

Ingredients

• 1 cup (8 oz) vegan semisweet or bittersweet chocolate chips or chunks

• 1 cup (8 oz) vegan white chocolate chips

• 2 cups salted cocktail peanuts

• flaky salt for sprinkling (optional)

Directions

• Place both chocolates in a microwave safe bowl (or melt in a double boiler) and cook in 30 second intervals just until the chocolate is starting to melt. Stop cooking when there are still some chips whole left unmelted and stir letting the residual heat finish melting them. My microwave took one and a half minutes total to cook the chocolate but they all vary. Just make sure to watch it carefully so it doesn’t burn or seize. Better to undercook then overcook and let the heat of the melted chips finish the job.
• Stir in the cocktail peanuts, mix well until completely coated with the melted chocolate and using two spoons or a scoop, drop even sized patties onto a parchment or wax paper lined baking sheet. You can make these as large or as small as you’d like. I got 15 decent sized patties from the batch. Smooth and flatten out the tops with a rubber spatula or rap the pan gently on the counter a few times to spread them out slightly.
• Let cool completely until the chocolate is dry to the touch, but if you’re impatient, pop them in the fridge to set for 15 minutes. Store leftovers in a covered container in the fridge.

Notes

• You can find vegan white chocolate chips at Walmart and other retailers and also online.
  
• Use a good quality semi or bittersweet chocolate.
  
• Cocktail style peanuts are the best choice for this recipe. Use any others at your own risk.

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