Homemade peanut butter cups: The ultimate Thanksgiving treat

These homemade peanut butter cups are perfect as a hostess gift at a Thanksgiving dinner. At your own Thanksgiving meal they can also be the perfect alternative to the pumpkin pie that many people don't really like but feel obliged to eat.

I adapted the recipe from Have Cake Will Travel. My version uses dark chocolate and brown sugar.

Extraordinarily delicious, easy to make and requiring no baking, these are the ultimate Thanksgiving treat.

Ingredients
9 oz dark chocolate (I use 72% dark cocoa)
3/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons crunchy peanut butter
1/3 cup brown sugar
2 tablespoons graham crackers
2 pinches of salt

Directions
Melt the chocolate in the microwave (I melt it for 3 minutes at 50% power) or, you can melt it in the double boiler. Add the 2 tablespoons of peanut butter, a pinch of salt and mix it well.

Line muffin tins with 12 cupcake paper liners. Spoon 2 teaspoons of the melted chocolate mixture into each liner, pressing the chocolate up against the sides as you go. Place in the refrigerator for 20 minutes.

Meanwhile, make your own graham cracker crumbs by crushing graham crackers in the blender or by hand with a spoon.

Mix the graham cracker crumbs with the peanut butter, brown sugar and pinch of salt. Mix it well.

When the chocolate is hard, spoon 1 tablespoon of peanut butter mixture into each paper liner, pressing it flat as you go.

Add an additional 2 teaspoons of chocolate to each cup, spreading the chocolate evenly over the peanut butter.

Place in the refrigerator for an hour before indulging!

Enjoy.

The recipe to print can be found here.