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Homemade Vegan Peanut Butter Cups #candy #veganrecipes #peanutbutter
Oct 22, 2025
Swap your Reese's peanut butter cups for a dairy-free version that's super easy to make at home! (If you use refined sugar-free chocolate chips, these vegan candies are refined sugar-free, too). Just be warned, this recipe makes eight peanut butter cups, and once you taste them, you might not be able to stop eating them. Follow along with the recipe here: https://www.stephsunshine.com/vegan-life/vegan-peanut-butter-cups/ Or search all my vegan recipes here: https://www.stephsunshine.com/vegan-life/all-recipes/
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I almost didn't publish this recipe.
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When I started working on this recipe, I
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was going for a vegan Reese's Peanut
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Butter Cups replica, and these peanut
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butter cups have semieet chocolate on
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the outside instead of a vegan milk
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chocolate. But I realized I cannot stop
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eating these peanut butter cups. And
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I've bought a lot of vegan peanut butter
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cups from the store, and these are way
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better than anything I've tried. So, if
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you are a vegan chocolate peanut butter
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lover, you are in the right place. Hey,
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welcome back. Today, we are working on
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one of my nostalgic favorite candy bars,
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a vegan version of Reese's Peanut Butter
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Cups. Before we get started on this
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recipe, I do need to warn you, this
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recipe is super easy to make and it
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makes eight peanut butter cups and you
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might not be able to stop eating them.
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So, you've been warned. Okay, so before
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we get started, you just want to prepare
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a muffin tin with eight paper liners.
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Then we're going to make our peanut
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butter filling. The thing that I have
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never found in any of the other
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store-bought vegan peanut butter cups is
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that kind of grainy texture that the
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Reese's peanut butter cups has, and I
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believe that is probably from powdered
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sugar. But we're going to get that same
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texture and delicious flavor without the
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processed sugar. And by the way, the
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peanut butter that I'm using is a
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natural unsweetened peanut butter. It is
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just peanuts and salt. So if you want
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consistent results, I would recommend
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getting something similar to that. Okay.
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So in my little mixing bowl here, I am
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just adding 1/4 cup of creamy peanut
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butter, 2 tbsp of maple syrup, and 1/4
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teaspoon of salt. And I am just going to
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mix that up until it's well combined.
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And then next, I'm adding in 1/4 cup
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plus 2 tbsp of oat flour, half of it at
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a time. And I'm going to mix that up
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until we have a dough. What you're
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looking for as far as the texture is a
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dough that is not gooey and won't stick
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to your fingers if you touch it. So, if
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yours is sticky, you might want to add a
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little bit more oat flour. So, then I'm
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going to take about an eighth of the
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dough and form a disc with it. I like to
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weigh mine so that each ball is
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approximately the same size. I used
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about 17 g of peanut butter per peanut
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butter cup. So then I just roll it into
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a ball. Flatten the ball. You want to
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keep the disc smaller than the bottom of
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your paper liners. And you can just put
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all of your discs on a plate or a baking
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tray until we're ready to use them. So
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we are almost done. All we have left to
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do is melt the chocolate. So, we're
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going to use 1 and 1/4 cups of vegan
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mini chocolate chips. And we're going to
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melt them over a double boiler. You
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could also use fulls size chips, too.
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They'll just take a little bit longer to
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melt. Or you could also melt them in a
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microwave if you prefer. If you want
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your whole peanut butter cup to be
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refined sugar-free, make sure that you
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look for a brand of chocolate that is
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also refined sugar-free, like Lily,
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Lacanto, or Chozero. Okay, so now we're
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going to make the peanut butter cups.
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So, we're just going to take a small
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spoonful of chocolate and put it at the
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bottom of each liner. You want just
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enough chocolate to form a thin layer
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once it spreads out. Make sure that you
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don't use too much chocolate here
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because you want to make sure you have
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enough left over to cover the peanut
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butter. All right. Well, once we have
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our chocolate in each of the cups, then
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we are going to take one of our little
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peanut butter discs and put it in the
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middle. And we're going to press down
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gently to spread out the chocolate
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underneath. You want to make sure that
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the chocolate is spread out to all of
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the edges of the liner. And then
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finally, we're just going to put a
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little bit of chocolate on top of each
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of the peanut butter discs. You want to
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make sure that you use a spoon to spread
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it around and get the sides fully
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covered. If you have any chocolate left
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over, you can use whatever's left to
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kind of fill in those edges. And if your
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peanut butter cups aren't totally flat
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on top, you can kind of take the tray
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and shake it around or drop it on the
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countertop a couple times and that'll
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level everything out. And this is just
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going to go in the fridge until it firms
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up. Your peanut butter cups are going to
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be firm enough to eat within about 30 to
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45 minutes. But if you can, I highly
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recommend leaving them overnight because
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the texture of the filling does develop
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and it actually improves the next day.
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So if you can wait, I recommend waiting.
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And that's it.
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Yeah, even though the chocolate on the
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outside isn't quite like the original
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Reese's, these definitely satisfy that
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chocolate peanut butter craving. And I
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just love these because the filling
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inside has a little bit of that like
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crumbly texture like Reese's and not
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like the creamy other storebought ones
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that I've bought in the past. By the
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way, our next video is also chocolate
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and peanut butter themed. We're going to
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be making a creamy peanut butter pie and
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we're going to chop these peanut butter
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cups up and sprinkle them on top. So, if
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that sounds good to you, make sure you
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subscribe to get that recipe. Thank you
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so much for watching and I'll see you in
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the next one. Hey. Hey. Hey.
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