Reese's Chocolate Peanut Butter Hearts are a delicious way to celebrate Valentine's Day. Your family and friends are going to love the rich peanut butter taste and you're going to love the fact that this is a no-bake recipe! They go perfectly with Chocolate Covered Heart Shaped Strawberries.
One of the most popular recipes on this site is No Bake Homemade Peanut Butter Bars. That recipe never fails to be in the top five on the blog almost every day for over three years now.
Both the peanut butter bars and these heart shaped candies really do taste like Reese's Peanut Butter Cups only slightly better because they're homemade.
Reese's Chocolate Peanut Butter Hearts
As stated above, this recipe is very similar to the peanut butter bars recipe only instead of spreading the melted chocolate on top of the peanut butter layer, you use a heart shaped cookie cutter to cut out heart shapes from the peanut butter layer and dip them in melted chocolate.
These hearts will make the perfect homemade gift for your "valentine" this year!
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Helpful Kitchen Tools
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- Parchment Baking Sheets - if you're reader of my site, then you know how much I love these sheets!
- heart shaped cookie cutter - I especially like this set because it comes with different sized hearts
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Ingredients:
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- 1 cup creamy peanut butter
- ¼ cup butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 ½ cups powdered sugar
- 12 oz. semi-sweet chocolate chips
Directions
Step 1: How to Make the Peanut Butter Layer
Place the peanut butter and butter in a glass bowl and microwave on high for 1 minute. Stir till combined. A rubber spatula works great for this step.
Add vanilla extract and powdered sugar to the bowl and stir until smooth. Remove the mixture from the bowl and shape into a round disc.
Step 2: How to Form the Heart Shapes
Place the peanut butter mixture on the parchment baking sheets and using a rolling pin, roll out the dough to less than ½ inch thick. Gently lift the ends of the parchment paper and place on a baking tray. Put the baking tray in the freezer for 30 minutes.
Once the peanut butter layer has been chilled, use a heart shaped cookie cutter to cut out peanut butter hearts until dough is used up.
If the dough becomes too soft, place it back in the freezer to firm up again. Don't try to cut the heart shapes out unless the dough is chilled.
Step 3: How to Melt Chocolate in the Microwave
Place the chocolate chips in a microwave-safe bowl then place the bowl in microwave for 1 minute on high. Remove the bowl from the microwave and stir. Return the bowl to the microwave and continue to heat in 30 second intervals, stirring in between, until chocolate is completely melted.
Step 4: How to Dip the Hearts in Chocolate
Dip the peanut butter hearts into the chocolate – use a spoon to completely coat each heart. Next, use a fork to lift the heart out of the chocolate and tap on the side of the bowl to remove excess chocolate.
Place chocolate covered heart on parchment baking sheets or even waxed paper. You do not want to place them on a baking cooling rack as they will stick as the chocolate hardens.
Continue until all hearts are coated in chocolate.
Step 5: How to Store Chocolate Peanut Butter Hearts
- Place hearts in the refrigerator for 10-15 minutes to allow chocolate to harden.
- Once they've harden, store them in an air-tight plastic storage container that is first lined with parchment baking sheets.
- Try to store them in a single layer in the container to prevent anything from sticking.
- You can also place them in paper cupcake liners and then place them in the air-tight container.
- My husband and son love them stored in the freezer!
Tried any of my recipes? Let me know in the comments!
A few other Valentine's Day Recipes:
- Heart Shaped Treats
- Valentines Day Ice Cream Floats
- Puff Pastry Hearts filled with Chocolate Pudding
- Heart Shaped Chocolate Covered Strawberries
- Valentine's Day Swirl Cookies
- Heart Shaped Oreo Truffles
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Reese's Chocolate Peanut Butter Hearts
Reese's Chocolate Peanut Butter Hearts are delicious heart shaped peanut butter candies that are the perfect treat to celebrate Valentine's Day!
Ingredients
- 1 cup creamy peanut butter
- ¼ cup butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 ½ cups powdered sugar
- 12 oz. semi-sweet chocolate chips
Instructions
- Place a piece of parchment paper on a flat moveable surface, like a cutting board.
- Place peanut butter and butter in a glass bowl and microwave on high for 1 minute. Stir.
- Add vanilla extract and powdered sugar to the bowl and stir until smooth.
- Place the peanut butter mixture on the parchment paper. Use a rolling pin to roll out the dough to less than ½ inch thick. Place in freezer for 30 minutes.
- Once chilled, use a heart-shaped cookie cutter to cut out peanut butter hearts -continuing until dough is used up. Place in the fridge while completing next step.
- Heat chocolate in the microwave for 1 minute on high, stir. Microwave in 30 second intervals, stirring in between, until chocolate is completely melted.
- Dip the peanut butter hearts into the chocolate – use a spoon to completely coat. Use a fork to lift the heart out of the chocolate and tap on the side of the bowl to remove excess chocolate. Place chocolate covered heart on parchment paper. Continue until all hearts are coated in chocolate.
- If you’d like to add a little decorative drizzle, use a fork dipped in the melted chocolate and shake it back and forth over each heart.
- Place hearts in the refrigerator for 10-15 minutes to allow chocolate to harden.
Notes
Store the chocolate peanut butter hearts in an air-tight container that is first lined with parchment paper.
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
15Serving Size:
1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 285Total Fat: 18gSaturated Fat: 8gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 9gCholesterol: 8mgSodium: 109mgCarbohydrates: 31gFiber: 2gSugar: 25gProtein: 5g
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Is it unsalted butter or regular butter? And is it salted peanut butter or unsalted?
I always bake with salted butter. And the peanut butter I used was regular peanut butter which has salt. Thank you!
Makes me wish my husband wasn't allergic to peanuts! I can't pretend I'm not making them for myself.
Ohhh...maybe you could make them for a friend and keep a few for you! Thank you for visiting.
Yes, yes, yes! Peanut butter cups are one of favorite candies, so this is just perfect. Thanks for sharing your recipe on MM. This will be a feature this week.
Thank you for the feature!!!
Your sweet treat is perfect to treat your loved ones with on Valentine's Day. I'll be featuring it tonight at Merry Monday. Hope to see you at the party!
This recipe will be Featured at Merry Monday this week in our post for Homemade Valentine's Desserts. Pinning and sharing across our socials. Thanks for partying with us! See ya next week.
I use to make something very similar when my daughter was young (she's 36 now) I also used graham cracker crumbs, and Hershey's chocolate bar instead of semi-sweet chips.
I was just reminiscing about this recipe over the weekend.
Thanks for sharing at Talk of the Town. Pinned!
Featuring this recipe next week.
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Thank you Gail!
Hi this is Kristina visiting from Delicious Dishes. These look amazing! I am always looking for desserts made with all real food ingredients to share with my audience. Pinned!
Thank you for pinning and sharing! And for visiting today!
I am going assume you add 1 1/2 cups of powder sugar, correct? Going to try this next week.
YES! Thanks for catching that for me. I updated the recipe card. Enjoy your day.