When my friend Colleen of Souffle Bombay and I cooked up this idea to host an Easter Basket giveaway (at the bottom of the post) for adults with a round up of posts that are #AllThingsEaster, I’m not quite sure we envisioned it being quite so spectacular. In the end we added another 26 bloggers and their posts to make this your go-to for Easter. Since one of my favorite “Easter foods” is Chocolate Covered Peanut Butter Eggs, I wanted to share a recipe for them with you.
Oh the chocolatey peanut butter goodness of chocolate covered peanut butter cups. My favorite is dark chocolate but milk chocolate is good too, and things are always better in three’s so I threw in a few white chocolate covered for good measure. Divine Chocolate, one of our giveaway sponsors, sent me some of my favorite chocolate to dip these beauties in and it was so so tempting to lick the bowl, and my fingers, and the fork, but I restrained myself.
In the spirit of making my own Chocolate Covered Peanut Butter Eggs I sampled store bought peanut butter eggs. When did they start to taste so bad? Or have my taste buds gotten pickier? What a waste of my money! Homemade are so much better. For the sake of easiness I used store bought creamy peanut butter but next time, oh next time I am using my homemade peanut butter. That will truly be amazing.
PrintChocolate Covered Peanut Butter Eggs
Ingredients
- 1 – 16 ounce container creamy peanut butter (all natural with just peanuts will not work)
- 1/4 cup butter, softened
- 1 & 1/2 cups powdered sugar
- 1/2 cup white or raw sugar (I prefer raw)
- 1 tablespoon water
- Baking chocolate for dipping eggs in
Instructions
- Melt butter and dissolve white/raw sugar and water in medium sauce pan.
- Add peanut butter and 1 cup powdered sugar and heat, stirring often, until bubbly.
- Take pan off heat and mix in remaining powdered sugar.
- Cool mixture in refrigerator until solid, at least 1 hour.
- Shape peanut butter mixture into 1 – 2 inch balls, then shape into egg shape.
- Freeze on wax or parchment paper for at least 30 minutes. (Don’t skip this step as the chocolate doesn’t harden as quickly or beautifully on the eggs without it.)
- Melt chocolate. Dip eggs into chocolate, coating thoroughly, then set on a cookie rack that has been placed on a cookie sheet or paper to catch the drips.
- Serve and enjoy!
Notes
Made 27 1-2 inch Chocolate Covered Peanut Butter Eggs or 24 1-2 inch with 1 3 inch egg.
Ideas for Leftover Easter Eggs
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Easter Breakfast Recipe Ideas
Easter Breakfast Casserole | How I Pinch A Penny
Lemon Blueberry French Toast Bake with Lemon Mint Cream | O’Boy! Organic
Dutch Baby | The Naughty Mommy
Easter Dinner Recipe Ideas
Scallion & Brown Butter Mashed Potatoes | Musings of a Housewife
Baked Cheesy Broccoli & Rice Casserole | We’re Parents!?
Cheesy Potato Casserole | Coupon Cutting Mom
Easter Dessert Recipe Ideas
Peanut Butter Eggs | Real: The Kitchen & Beyond
Toasted Angel Food Cake Parfait | What the Heck’s a Bonbon?
Easter Lemon Cookies {Allergy Friendly} | Chockababy
Individual Lemon Meringues | Pandora’s Deals
Peeps in the Pond Trifle | Opera Singer in the Kitchen
Rice Krispie Pops/Chocolate Covered Pretzels | A Grande Life
Easter Cocktail Recipe Ideas
Raspberry Beer Float | Teaspoon of Spice
The Peter Cottontail Cocktail | Can’t Google Everything
Bunnytail-tini | Mommy Snapped
Easter Decorating Ideas
Easter Printable | Diapered Daze and Knights
Easter Centerpiece | The Vintage Mom
Jellybean Tree Centerpiece | Look What Mom Found
Easter Gift Ideas
Allergy Friendly Non-Toxic Easter Basket | Mom-Blog
Naturally Dyed Wooden Easter Eggs | Inspired Family
Sugar Free Easter Basket Ideas | philly fun 4 kids
Easter Fun
5 Easter Activities for Kids | Mama Teaches
Taking Great Easter Photos | Life with Kaishon
Frugal Easter Basket Ideas & Menu
Easter Egg Pass | A Life in Balance
5 Frugal Easter Ideas | The Centsible Life
Pretzel Tours – An Alternative to Easter Egg Hunts | Homeroom At Home
We would like to give a huge thank you to the companies that made this give away possible. Thank you to John Boos for the beautiful maple cutting board, The Spice House for their spice and baking gift sets, Divine Chocolate for their luxuriously rich Fair Trade Chocolate gift basket, Wilton Armetale for the elegant egg plate, and Tree Hut for the body scrub and lotion.
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Oh peanut butter eggs are my weakness. These look amazing!
My mouth just watered! These are incredible and simple! Thanks!
Wow that must have been really hard research sampling the other peanut butter eggs! Tough job but somebody has to do it! These look delicious – YUM!
Haha. So hard!
Here’s my plan for Easter Eve (It’s a thing!):
1. Put kids to bed.
2. Set out their Easter baskets.
3. Make these PB Eggs.
4. Eat these PB Eggs.
5. Hide the evidence.
6. Go to bed happy.
Sounds like an excellent plan to me.
Peanut butter Easter eggs are my favorite Easter treat! I LOVE them. It is something that I have yet to try making so now here’s my chance. These look amazing Heather!
Thank you.
My husband would LOVE this.
YUM! I like these homemade ones. Ryan would love these.
It isn’t Easter without peanut butter eggs. I have never made them myself but after reading your recipe I’m thinking they look easy enough to give it a try. Thanks for sharing.
I couldn’t believe what I have been missing all these years. You have to make them! No way will I pay $1+ for a measly egg full of junky ingredients again.
I made some Peanut Butter & Honey Chocolate eggs last week and they were oh -so -good. Love love the way you decorated these guys. Thanks so much for hosting #AllThingsEaster – thrilled to be a part of it!
Recipe please? I need to try these. I love honey. It’s been a pleasure. I am so trying your Raspberry Beer Float and am thinking a peach float would be good too.
I think I have to add this to my Easter dessert menu!
You have inspired me!! I’m going to make a dairy-free, peanut-free version for the kids. And then invite you over to decorate, but I’m totally certain that mine will just look like blobs, LOL! You are so talented.
Mmmm! One of my favorite Easter memories from when I was a kid was making candy eggs with my Grammy. I LOVED dipping our creations into the chocolate (and she was so patient). This a delicious and fun way to let your kids in the kitchen!
Your eggs look very pretty! They are gift worthy! : ) Thanks so much for putting all of this together. You did a great job!
We used to make these all the time growing up. My mom would sell them at our church to bring in extra money. Your recipe brings back so many happy, Easter memories! =)
These seem so easy to make, I’m mad at myself for never trying before! Thank you for the awesome recipe. I AM going to do it!