Mixing it Up: Inside Out Peanut Butter Cups for Serious Eats

Chocolate peanut butter cups are undoubtedly one of the finer things in life.

But I have my reservations about the construction: the chocolate gets your hands messy and there never seems to be enough peanut butter.

So what would happen if you turned a peanut butter cup inside-out? To find out, I started by using a peanut butter bar cookie crust recipe for the outer shell, then filled them with a peanut butter fudge mixture, thus increasing the peanut butter-to-chocolate ratio dramatically.

While the crumbly nature of the crust doesn't make them much neater to eat, taste-wise, it's a whole new ballgame. It's like the fudgy center is getting a big peanut butter bear hug from the cookie coating. And it's delicious.

For the full entry and recipe, visit Serious Eats!

Comments

[Rachel @ The Avid Appetite]

Chocolate and pb is really my favorite flavor combo, and somehow there's never enough pb for my palette. This is genius...just pure genius.

[julie!]

Thanks for letting me sample one, Jessie! It was delicious! You know what make it awesomer? Chocolate drizzle. :P

[teax2]

The author of The System webcomic thought of an alternative way to consume cupcakes. It's a pretty funny and interesting idea, and I thought you might wanna take a look.
http://www.notquitewrong.com/rosscottinc/2010/03/25/the-system-351-the-cupcake-sandwich/

[Nurit - familyfriendlyfood]

So much fun!

[carrie]

made these tonight. delicious... not wicked PBish though. they tastle like a PB shortbread. i doubled the filling :) easy and worth a try!