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 instances higher as a result of they’re do-it-yourself! And their lovely coronary heart form is bound to make anybody swoon!
Chocolate and Peanut Butter Hearts
Valentine’s day is rapidly approaching, my buddies! As a substitute of shopping for boxed chocolate from the candy store (or worse, grocery retailer), let’s make some, okay?
Making do-it-yourself sweet is a enjoyable and rewarding course of. And I believe the outcomes converse for themselves! I imply, simply take a look at these beautiful 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: Substances
- Confectioner’s Sugar: For the perfect 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: Deliver it to room temperature earlier than use.
- Salt: Wonderful sea salt works finest.
- Vanilla Extract: In a pinch, you possibly can skip this.
- Milk: Complete milk works finest however any milk will work.
- Chocolate: Use darkish or milk chocolate, primarily based in your style choice.
- Pink Nonpareils: If you could find them, they add a cute festive really feel to those peanut butter hearts.
Shaping the Hearts
- You need your dough to be gentle 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 arms when molded into form.
- If the dough feels too sticky, merely add a bit of extra confectioners’ sugar. If the dough is just too dry a splash of milk is your buddy.
- You should utilize 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 bear in mind to not make them too skinny. They need to be at the very least 1/4 of an inch in thickness. This helps them hold their form in the course of the chocolate dipping course of.
Dip the Hearts in Chocolate
- You’ll dip the hearts after you form and freeze them. You could freeze them for about an hour and a half.
- Freezing is necessary as a result of the dough is gentle and can simply unfastened it’s form for those who dunk it earlier than they’re frozen.
- I want semi-sweet or darkish chocolate for this recipe, because the peanut butter filling is already fairly candy. However you should utilize milk chocolate if desired.
- You may enhance the hearts with pink and white sprinkles, flaky sea salt, or go away them plain.
I tailored this recipe from my Salted Chocolate Lined Peanut Butter Eggs!
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