Peanut Butter Cups

This peanut butter cup has saved lives.

During the first few months of beginning the ketogenic diet, you're spending so much time and energy making new recipes, just to try to figure out what to make for your keto kid that he will actually eat without tears. My husband and I jumped on the keto train in solidarity and were also struggling a bit (the old man's got a sweet tooth). We stumbled upon a blog with a keto peanut butter cup and knew we had to try one for Eamon. I'll never forget his moaning in delight that first time he pulled one out of the freezer. I knew at that moment, that we'd make it on this diet, but only if we could make the things we used to love by Keeping It Keto. 

Eamon has these everyday. At first we thought we'd keep the recipe reserved for special occasions, but it's just too easy, too good and comes without cream! It also keeps very well when kept right next to a freezer pack in a lunch box or cooler. 

I usually put two bowls on the scale and measure like this...just faster

Adding the peanut butter - I usually make two cups at a time, as you can see on the right

The bowls after a good microwaving. About 45 seconds in our microwave

I stirred the chocolate and poured it in the silicone mold.
Now, I'm going to mix the peanut butter and pour it in, making sure
all of the bowls and spatula are scraped clean...got to get that fat to keep the ratio!  

Ready for the freezer! 

After about an hour in the freezer! Ready to eat! 

Here's the deal!

3.09:1 and 153 calories or
4.18:1 and 145 calories (for 4:1, increase butter to 14 grams and peanut butter to 8g and reduce Truvia and cocoa powder to 2g each)

Peanut Butter Cup

Ingredients:

Cocoa, Hershey's (unsweetened), 3g
Truvia Natural Sweetener, 3g
Peanut Butter, Creamy Natural Skippy, 8g
Butter, 13g

Directions:

Place two bowls on the scale. Measure 10g of butter into one bowl and 3g into the other (this seems tedious, but keeps you from losing grams of butter transferring into new bowls). Measure Truvia and cocoa powder and add to bowl with the 10g of butter. Measure peanut butter into the bowl with 3g of butter. Microwave both bowls and mix well, being sure to dissolve Truvia into butter. Pour chocolate mixture into silicone muffin cup. Pour peanut butter mixture into the center of the chocolate and freeze. Keep frozen until ready to eat. Melts very quickly. Eamon uses the silicone muffin cup like a little holder or napkin to keep his hands from getting too messy.
3.09:1, 153 calories