Chocolate Peanut Butter Eggs are a favorite Easter treat of ours! A delicious peanut butter truffle filling is coated in melted chocolate for seasonal perfection! Because they are simple and quick, you won’t have to spend the entire holiday baking. Instead, these will allow a little extra time with your loved ones. I like to make them a day ahead to make food preparation on Easter Sunday even easier.
Chocolate Peanut Butter Eggs have been an Easter tradition of ours since the beginning of our marriage. My Cowboy and I adore Reese’s Eggs. When I first saw the idea, everybody claimed they taste just like a Reese’s Egg. I hate to break it to ya, but they don’t. They are different, but in a good way. While these Chocolate Peanut Butter Eggs may not perfectly mimic the Hershey’s favorite, they are beyond worthy of their own spot on your Easter list. I make them each Easter and I use the same filling for peanut butter truffles at Christmas!
Peanut Butter. Oh ya.
Easter candy just happens to be my most favorite seasonal candy. Halloween candy is wonderful, Valentine’s candy is fun, and Christmas candy comes close, but- Easter candy. It makes me swoon. How does it get better than jelly beans, Reese’s white and milk chocolate eggs, Cadbury Creme/Caramel Eggs, or Cadbury Mini’s? Speaking of Cadbury Mini’s, don’t forget to try out these Easter macaroons made with Cadbury Mini’s I posted last year! And of course don’t forget to try these Chocolate Peanut Butter Eggs.
I have a question for you. Do you like Peeps or do you think they’re gross ? I don’t really like them much, but I tend to always have one or two each year- just because. Because they are cute, festive, and somehow eating something cute and festive can make up for not being very tasty.
While I believe that is true, I promise that Chocolate Peanut Butter Eggs are cute, festive, and tasty!
As much as I love peanut butter eggs and Easter candy, I am inexpressibly more grateful for the opportunity we have this holiday to celebrate Jesus Christ’s life and sacrifice for each one of us. May you all be blessed with the peace He offers. Happy Easter!
- 1 1/2 cups peanut butter
- 3 cups powdered sugar
- 1/3 cup melted butter
- 2 tablespoons milk
- 1 1/2-2 bags milk chocolate chips
- 3 tablespoons shortening
- 1. Beat the peanut butter, powdered sugar, and melted butter until well combined. The dough will be crumbly. Add the milk and combine. Filling will still be crumbly.
- 2. Grab a few tablespoons of the peanut butter mixture and roll into the shape of an egg. Place on a cookie sheet and freeze about 15-20 minutes to harden.
- 3. While the peanut butter hardens, melt the chocolate with the shortening. I usually do it in the microwave, in thirty second intervals. I power down the microwave to sixty percent and stir in between each thirty second interval. You can use a double broiler to melt the chocolate as well. If you melt the chocolate in the microwave, use a microwave safe bowl.
- 4. Grab the peanut butter eggs from the freezer and dip them individually in the chocolate. I like to set them on a cookie sheet covered with parchment paper, or aluminum foil sprayed with cooking spray.
- 5. Allow the chocolate to harden. These keep best if they are refrigerated.
- *You could dip some or all of the eggs in white chocolate as well!
- *You can shape the eggs bigger or smaller if you want. I prefer less chocolate and more peanut butter so I make them big enough there is a lot of peanut butter filling. My mom prefers more chocolate so she likes them to be small. If you really want them to be chocolate-y, you can even double dip them in the melted chocolate!
