I want to say happy Memorial Day to you all. And give a big thanks to all of the men and women who protect us and keep us safe. Thank you for all that you do; for your time, your sacrifice and your service.
Can you believe that it is already Memorial Day weekend? Robbie has two more weeks of Kindergarten and then the summer officially begins here. Let's hear it for summer!
I am looking forward to fun summer activities with my family. Lots of fun, lots of adventures and lots of cooking :)
My wonderful husband has been in the mood for s'mores lately. I have no idea why. He just has. Thanks to pinterest, I found an abundance of s'more related recipes. So, in true Sunny fashion, I chose three recipes and mixed them together to create my own peanut butter s'more cups.
Peanut Butter S'More Cups
What you'll need:
- 8 whole graham crackers (not 7 and not 9)
- 1/4 cup of powdered sugar
- 1/3 cup melted butter (and I mean butter, not margarine....)
- 1/8 tsp of vanilla
- 1/8 tsp instant coffee
- 12 large marshmallows
- 6 regular size Reese's Peanut Butter Cups or 24 mini Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
- 2 milk chocolate bars
Preheat your oven to 350. Put your graham crackers in a large resealable bag and then smash to smithereens. Pulvarize those puppies. Take out your aggressions. Do whatever it takes to make those graham crackers into dust. Of course, you could always just put them in a food processor. But where is the fun in that.
Put the graham crackers into a bowl and add the powdered sugar, melted butter, vanilla and instant coffee. Mix all together. Add a tablespoon full of mixture to each cup of a mini muffin pan. (If you do not have a mini cupcake pan, I suppose you could use a regular muffin pan and just adjust the portions to fit.) Use a rounded spoon, measuring spoon, or your fingers (wet with water so the mixture doesn't stick) and create a little bowl in the muffin tin. Press the graham cracker mixture against the bottom and sides of the pan. Bake in oven for 5 minutes.
While these are cooking, cut your Reese's Peanut Butter cups into 1/4's. If you are using mini Reese's, no cutting is needed. Cut your marshmallows in half. Remove from oven and place a 1/4 peanut butter cup (or whole mini Reese's) in center of graham cracker bowl. Top with a marshmallow (cut side down). Put back in oven and cook for an additional 2 minutes. The marshmallows will look like soft little warm pillows. Mmmm.... warm marshmallows.... yum.
Remove from oven. Let cool in muffin pan for about 10 minutes. Carefully remove cups from the muffin pan. I used a teaspoon and gently spooned them out. They held up quite nicely. I only had one casualty that didn't survive the removal. I promptly ate the evidence.
Let the marshmallows cool completely. Melt the 2 milk chocolate bars in the microwave. Dip each cup marshmallow side down into the milk chocolate. Just enough to coat the top of the marshmallow. Place back on cooling rack to cool and set. About 45 minutes. Not that anyone in my house bothered to wait 45 minutes for them to cool. I barely had them dipped in the chocolate and my husband had already ate 3 of them.
Makes 24 mini cups.
Enjoy. And have a great Memorial Day. Please say thank you to those who serve our country. They deserve our gratitude and so much more.
