chocolate peanut butter cups

How did you all find these without honey??? I was pretty devestated I had to make mine with honey graham crackers, so guess they're not vegan :( :(

Also, Alicia, what do you mean by 10 squares? Is it 10 of the tiny or 10 of the full ones with two each?

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  • Hazel — Sep 28, 2010
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Esperanza - I couldn't find any without honey, either. I used to eat them as a kid, I don't know where they've gone! I used a graham pie shell made by Wholly Wholesome, which I found at Whole Foods on the baking aisle. It's vegan. I used one whole shell.

Nabisco Graham Crackers are vegan! You should be able to find them in most grocery stores. They are in a red box :)

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  • Hazel — Oct 3, 2010
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Esperanza - I might have had to use two, I can't remember now. So if you decide to use them, take a look at the oz.

Thanks for that, Stephanie. I haven't seen those in a while, I did even go to conventional grocery stores which I don't usually do, but they only had the honey ones. I like the Wholly Wholesome because the ingredients are cleaner, but I see now that they have palm oil, but Nabisco has soy oil and high fructose corn syrup. I guess I have to choose the lesser of two evils if I choose to make them again (and could find Nabisco ones) and I'm not sure which one that is!

Thanks for that suggestion. I had bought the Whole Foods honey graham crackers. I looked in the cookies for an alternative. Too bad I didn't think like you! Great idea. I want to make them again.

Just made my own version of these with what I had on-hand at home. They came out great! Thanks Alicia, this is a great recipe!

http://vegetarianwhohatestofu.blogspot.com/2010/10/homemade-peanut-butter-cups.html

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  • Mandy — Nov 24, 2010
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I had trouble finding honey free graham crackers too, so I substituted vegan animal crackers (Whole Foods 365 brand). Everyone loves them and I have made this recipe at least 6 times. For a fancier Thanksgiving twist, I added shredded coconut to the peanut butter mixture! YUM!

i bought gluten free corn flakes and crushed them. i've made them with graham cracker as well, and i think the texture of the corn flakes were actually better. give them a try and see whatcha think:)

I finally made these!  Here's a pic... the chocolate didn't spread out evenly on mine because I didn't let the peanut butter set enough... but they taste so yummy. http://whyiconsumeart.blogspot.com/2011/01/chocolate-peanut-butter-cups-from-kind.html

Has anyone doubled the recipe or even tripled it for a large party or should each batch be made individually? I haven't tried these yet because I have to get all the GF ingredients first, but I can't wait! They sound (and look) absolutely delicious!

So happy to see this recipe in today's Parade magazine! :)

I have been superhero vegan for two years.  I have resisted the peanut butter cups until now - I made them.  Quick - send somebody over to take them away.  They are delicious and now I have fallen off the wagon.  Say sugar anyone?  My advise - make them, have one and give the rest to your neighbors.

I made 3 batches of these for a New Year's Eve party this year, and they were a huge hit.  

I had no trouble finding grahams without honey at Central Market. They said Honey Grahams, but looking at the label, they had no honey in them.  I couldn't find maple sugar, so I used turbinado. This wasn't the best option because it didn't dissolve in a timely fashion.  I also had to adjust the graham cracker crumbs up because the Central Market all natural peanut butter that I used for the first 2 batches was a bit thinner than the other brand.  I considered just tripling the recipe instead of doing it 3 times, but it really was easy allowed me to adjust along the way.

The serving is huge.  I think next time I will either put 1tb of peanut mix in the cups and spread the recipe out over 24 cups (this would require doubling the chocolate) or getting mini cups and doing that.

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