Homemade peanut butter cups

By karen-2

Ingredients

• 1 cup cream peanut butter
• 1/4 cup unsalted butter
• 1/4 cup brown sugar
• 1 1/4 cup conf sugar
• 4 cups milk choc chips.. 2 11.5 bags
• 1/4 cup veg shortening

Preparation

Step 1

line mini muffin tin with paper liners..set aside. line sheet with parchment paper.
in med saucepan, combine peanut butter, butter and brown sugar ove med heat. heat til completely melted and starting to bubble a little, stirring constantly.remove fro heat. add conf sugar 1/4 cup at a time, stirring til completely combine with pnut butter mix ..set aside and let cool.
melt chips and shortening togeth in microwave on 50% power in 30 sec increments til completly melted, stirring.
using samill cookie scoop or teaspoons, spoon melted choc into bottom of each muffin cup.
us heaping teaspoon to scoop peanut butter mix and roll into ball and then flatten slightly into disk. place on parchment paper andrefreigerate both tin and peanut butter about 30 min.
place a peanut butter disk on top of each choc muffin. then spoon more melted chocolate on top and arount each peanut butter patty. refrigerate again till ready to serve..can also be frozen till ready to serve