Homemade Peanut Butter Cup Bites (Simple & Tasty)

When you’re dealing with food allergies and sensitivities, you start noticing just how much junk is in everyday snacks—preservatives, dyes, and things you can’t even pronounce.

So instead of fighting labels at the store, we’ve made it a habit to keep a few homemade staples on hand.

These peanut butter cup bites are one of our weekly go-tos. They’re filling enough for breakfast, easy enough for a snack, and they’ve pretty well put an end to the constant question: “What is there to eat?”

Ingredients:

• 2 cups quick oats

• ½ cup nut butter
  (We make one batch with peanut butter and one with almond butter each week)

• ½ cup raw honey

• ¾ cup chocolate chips (We use the Allergen free ones)

• ~1 tablespoon coconut oil

Directions:

1) Warm the base

Heat the nut butter and honey just enough to combine.

(about 30 seconds works well, especially in the winter. )

2) Mix

Stir in the oats until everything is well coated.

3) Shape

Press into a mini muffin tin

• Makes 24 mini bites or 12 regular size

4) Melt the chocolate

Combine chocolate chips and coconut oil and melt until smooth.

(The coconut oil is the trick it makes the chocolate spread easily and gives it a nice finish)

5) Top with chocolate

Spoon or spread chocolate over each bite.

If you've got extra, Drizzle it over something else, granola bars, toast, whatever's handy. No sense wasting good chocolate.

6) Chill

Place in the fridge until set.

7) Store

Pop out and store in an airtight container.

We keep ours in the fridge, since we don't run AC and chocolate melts fast in a warm kitchen.

Til next time, keep livin’ that farm fresh life!
~ Megan Taylor