This is the best reeses peanut butter but i have ever eaten. Believe it or not, but when you mix the stuff together for the peanut butter. It actually taste like reeses peanut butter peanut butter. (that sounds redundant i know.) Trust me, you will have fun making this as much as you will enjoy eating it.
oops* i completely for got to add the credit for this project. I found it at www.pimpthatsnack.com
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Gather your ingredients for your awesome chocolate peanut butter snack.
For the chocolate chips i would recommend milk chocolate. Semi-Sweet and Dark chocolate chips will make it taste really blah.
Also, i would recommend you don't add milk to the chocolate. It will not harden if its to liquid-y. Nothing worse than a runny peanut butter cup.
And for sh*ts and giggles. I used the reeses peanut butter. Its a little more expensive than the normal peanut butter but i thought it would make it more authentic to use reeses peanut butter.
You start by preparing the pan for the chocolate. I took the parchment paper, cut a big circle out and figured out the inside diameter of the pan. Then, using a small wooden stick, I proceeded to fold the edge back and forth to get the nice crankily type of edges for the giant cup.
Next using a glass, mixing bowl, I poured about 1 cup of milk(i still would not use milk, but you can if you want) and chocolate chips into it and added 1 tablespoon of shortening. This gets the mixture to flow better when it is melted. Using short bursts on low power, I melted it in a microwave. If you are using baking chocolate, the double boiler over water works better, but chips handle microwaving pretty well. However, they will deceive you as you watch them through the glass by NOT looking melted. Take them out and stir with a spatula to teach them a lesson. When you have it flowing well, give it a few more seconds of radiation, then pour into your mold.
Check the depth of your bottom layer with a toothpick, fork or some other marker. I used a wooden skewer, marked at how deep I wanted the bottom layer. I then gave it some short shakes back and forth to get the layer to even out and the trapped bubbles to rise to the surface. Put it in the fridge to set. I would allow the chocolate to sit for about 2-3 hours to make sure its really hard.
Here comes the good part. The graham cracker crumbs are made for pie crusts. Some of it is fine, and some is course. I wanted much finer grains, so I started by putting about ¾ of a cup in a mini-food processor (you can use a blender or skip this step if you wish) and pushing the “11” button. After a bit of noise, I have molecule-sized crumbs. Set aside for now.
Now, scoop out about 4 full tablespoons of peanut butter into a good size mixing bowl. Add about 1 tablespoon of butter. It may not look like much but we're about to add more volume. Pour in 3 ½ to 4 cups of the confectioners sugar and the 3/4 cup of the graham cracker crumbs. Looks great, doesn’t it? Well no, it doesn’t. So get mixing with your weapon of choice. You can go electric if you like, but I prefer the control of a good silicon spatula. By the time your arm is getting tired, you’ll find the peanut butter has absorbed the sugar and crumbs into a doughy type of material. If you taste it now you will find it tastes very close to the inside of a Reese’s. THIS was the Holy Grail I was looking for. I put mine in the fridge for about 10 minutes to get it a little more solid to work with.
If your bottom is set, (I mean the chocolate one) bring it out and ready the peanut butter filling. I put out a sheet of parchment paper and put the peanut butter dough on it. Then I semi-flattened it and covered it with another sheet of parchment paper. I used a rolling pin to flatten it out. Then I found a lid that was about the diameter that I wanted the inner disk of peanut butter to be. I used this as a guide to cut out a clean-edged (sort-of) disk and plop it onto the bottom layer of chocolate.
You may have had some chocolate left from the first layer. Add more chips and shortening to mix up more. I’d say about 1 ¼ cups. Nuke and mix as you did in the earlier step. When it’s ready to pour, go to it. Fill the top and around the edges. It won't want to flow too well, so you may have to use your handy-dandy spatula to show it who’s boss. I did not have quite enough to evenly make the top layer, so I had to add about another ½ cup of chips and pour it on top. Again I used the shake & shimmy method to even the melted chocolate and release air bubbles. After it’s done, back in the fridge to set.
Once your top layer has set your ready to dish it up.
Wahla! Your very own Giant Reese's Peanut Butter Cup.
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mamachka
14 Nov 13:38
OMG! Life is Good!!! :-)
Carley Mouse
14 Nov 13:39
This looks SO yummy O__O
Lilim
14 Nov 15:04
*rubs her now growling tummy*
Sugarlishes
14 Nov 15:31
you are now my very new best friend! :D you rock!!
teema
14 Nov 16:11
awesome-o
Mama Zoe
14 Nov 17:06
OMG I just died and went to reeses heaven. lol... I am drooling, you should know. LOL... sorry.
Jasmin N.
14 Nov 17:08
oh..... my....god! Heaven!! THANK YOU *starts worshipping you, as you are no god*
Jasmin N.
14 Nov 17:09
now***
Holly W.
14 Nov 19:23
This is FABULOUS!!!!!! I can't wait to make this! I'm really glad I went on a diet this week... :(
Godlesscupcake
14 Nov 20:57
Holy crap! That's freaking amazing!!
Craftie Auntie
14 Nov 21:53
Oh! I want!
Kae Lani
14 Nov 22:10
WOW!!! THIS IS AMAZING!!! This shall be my birthday cake... thank you!
Frustrated Crafter
14 Nov 23:33
You are my hero... I'm making this for my dad for christmas.
Mallory Howard
14 Nov 23:54
OH MY FRICKEN GENIUS...... THATS THE BEST THING I'VE SEEN ALL DAY!!!
Skylar
15 Nov 00:54
Holy crud! I love you for this for ever and ever and ever!!! Would siliconized parchment paper work?
DIS.AR.RAY
15 Nov 03:51
OMG... THIS IS AN AMAZING GIFT! THIS IS AWESOME... I want to hug you! lol. I'm incredibly poor, and this is a really cute and easy gift to give to others. :D Thanks for the how to. I would have never thought of graham crackers or shortening! Crazy!
moonfae
15 Nov 04:42
OMG! I have to make this someday soon !
I have a question, is the chocolate parts hard? or is it soft enough to use like a plastic fork on ?
Twizzlerette
15 Nov 04:42
thank you all for the amazing comments. im glad that you all like this and thank you to everyone for making this a featured project.
Mutantcarrot
15 Nov 05:21
My heart says heart attack but just about every other part of the pathos is begging me to gorge on some chocolatey goodness.
ʎǝuʇɹnoɔ
15 Nov 12:10
i'm wondering what reese's taste like... hahaha. maybe i should make this!
Sarah
20 Nov 17:27
yummy nice
Goth Ninja
23 Nov 17:25
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm making this for my boyfriend!!!
Lola Noir
29 Nov 00:47
Pimp That Snack is one of my fave sites!
You did a good job with this one :)
Misty Rizzo - Purple Dungeon Graphics
29 Nov 08:21
holy diabites!!!!! thats awesome
~Alice~
30 Nov 22:06
OMG THANK YOU!!!!I love this lol I'm so gonna make this for my sis and her/my friend o3o
Courtney Couture
01 Dec 11:35
THAT. IS. AWESOME. o.o
Giant R.
05 Dec 23:27
I have a friend who absolutely obsessed with Reeses, and i'm sure she'll love this as part of her sweet 16 gift! :D However, I am currently making it right now and have come across a few problems.
First, I spent about 45 minutes on step 2 trying to get the parchment paper to fit in my tin and to get the edges right. It was a very hard to do, and i wish you could have provided more instructions than measuring a diameter and using a small wooden stick. I ended up just using my hands.
Also, i could not get the peanut butter filling to work. After about 30 minutes of mixing i decided there was no possible way i was going to get anywhere with only 4 tablespoons of peanut butter and 4 cups of powdered sugar. It just looked like clumpy powdered sugar. It wasn't until i added about 7 or 8 more heaping tablespoons of peanut butter did i actually start to get somethng a bit more dough-like. But it did taste a whole lot like real Reeses butter!
Also, it takes a bit longer than 2.5 hours as you've stated above. Thank you for putting up this project, it really is wonderful! Though i don't think i am going to have another Reeses for a long time. ;]
Pinky T.
11 Dec 12:39
oh man...totally not fair..<ish a diabetic, so if i even think of eating that I'd probably die...:\ but I'm gonna make one for my bf anyway...
frankencat
24 Dec 16:12
I totally did this for my teacher. We did secret pals in our journalism classes and I made her one with caramel, because she didn't like peanut butter. Everyone loved it :]
Annie W.
25 Dec 06:06
This is a cool idea..but the recipe is definitely off. You need to use way less powdered sugar or way more peanut butter. I would give more exact measurements except to get it right I just kept haphazardly adding peanut butter until it worked.
Lena Cullen (or Hale)
17 Jan 20:57
I WORSHIP U THANK U
Eien
02 Feb 06:26
OMG it's HUGE. Do you cut it with a warm knife?
Twizzlerette
10 Feb 23:36
For anyone who is having a problem. Im sorry, i tried to explain it the best i could. If you have more problems with this please email me so i can discus the issue. Everything in the explanation are things i did and it seemed to work just fine for me.
Amateur!
12 Feb 18:19
Hi - I am from England and wondering what Graham;s Crackers are! Really want to make this so am thinking of an alternative... any help would be appreciated! hehe
debbie O:
15 May 14:32
OMG x 438453326 you totally just made my day :)
Mooky
27 May 21:22
omg! behold the giant reeses cup!! i must make it!! :3
ImaginaryFriend
09 Jun 16:13
OMG! I love it ^-^
Sameero
16 Jun 07:12
GENIUS!
Roxanne M.
28 Jul 18:16
O....M...Gthe chocolate gods have answered my prayer!!!!!!!!! lol i LOVE RESSESCUPS!!!!
Alias Dani
02 Oct 04:05
My boyfriend would love this. I've got to figure out how to make it in between the two sizes, methinks.
Alias Dani
02 Oct 04:05
My boyfriend would love this. I've got to figure out how to make it in between the two sizes, methinks.
Kira
09 Nov 18:10
*drools*