Peanut Butter Easter Eggs
Peanut Butter Easter Eggs are simple to create and the chocolate peanut butter combination make the perfect soft and sweet filling! Plus, they are adorable!
Peanut Butter Easter Eggs are a treat that we always sold growing up for school fundraisers this time of the year. They were decadent and I swear I made mine last until summer vacation by eating the tiniest bit at a time. I savored every morsel of that Easter Egg!
This fun recipe is a delightful, easy homemade version reminiscent of peanut butter cookie dough. I made them smaller but the inside is still the soft, creamy sweet peanut butter truffle-like candy I grew up with. Enjoy!
Ingredients :
- 1/2 cup softened butter 1 stick
- 3/4 cup brown sugar
- 1/4 cup creamy peanut butter
- 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/4 cup mini Reese's Pieces or mini chocolate chips
- 2 cups white & dark melting chocolate divided as you'd like- I used about 1 cup of each
- festive Easter sprinkles
Instructions :
- Cream butter, sugar and peanut butter until well combined. Add in vanilla. Sprinkle flour and salt on top of mixture, then stir until incorporated. Stir in Reese's Pieces.
- Turn dough onto a piece of parchment paper (or wax paper) and fold paper over so that it covers the top of the dough. Roll dough out until about 1/2" thick. Use a small Easter Egg cookie cutter to cut eggs out of the dough, setting eggs on a parchment covered baking pan. Roll dough again as needed, until all dough has been shaped into eggs. (I have this 18-piece Wilton Spring cookie cutter set- I love it and that's where I got my 2 1/2" egg cookie cutter from.)
- Freeze peanut butter eggs for 30 minutes.
- Melt the chocolate, separating 2-3 TBSP of each, white and dark melting chocolate into small bags with the corners cut, for drizzling. I love using Chocoley Dipping & Coating Chocolate because it’s super easy to use and it tastes fantastic. (not like wax!) The trick to melting chocolate in the microwave is to go slowly and stir gently- and just before you feel like it's completely melted, take it out of the microwave and let it finish melting in the warm bowl. This time I used the large tubs of Chocoley Dipping chocolate, which are so handy! I melted them for 2 minutes, then stirred gently and warmed for another 30 seconds, then they were ready. I can re-use the tubs and bonus- no having to wash dishes!
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