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Almond Butter Cups - low carb, dairy free and sugar free
Servings: 36
Calories: 255kcal
This Homemade "Reese's®" Nut Butter Candy is Sugar and Dairy Free - Homemade Peanut Butter Cup Candy without the guilt!
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Ingredients
Chocolate / Carob Coating
- 32 ounces cocoa butter (see Recipe Notes for alternative)
- 1/2 cup low-carb sweetener (See Recipe Notes for alternatives)
- 1/8 teaspoon stevia extract powder (See Recipe Notes for alternatives)
- 1 cup cocoa
- 1 cup almond butter (See Recipes Notes for alternative)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
Filling
- 1/2 cup almond butter (See Recipe Notes for alternatives)
- 4 1/2 teaspoons coconut oil
- 1/2 cup low-carb sweetener (powdered--see Recipe Notes for alternative)
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Melt cocoa butter or alternative over very low heat. (This is important. If you heat the oil too high, your nice chocolate coating will end up as a gloppy mess. Still edible, but not pretty. Not that I ever did that or anything :-).)
- Transfer the oil to a bowl, add other ingredients and mix well. I used my Bamix immersion blender to do the mixing. It works great and is my new favorite kitchen tool.
- Spoon a small amount of the melted chocolate into your molds. Just enough so you have the thickness that you'd like the chocolate coating to be.
- Place mold in fridge to harden while you make the filling.
- For filling, combine all ingredients in a bowl and mix well.
- Place filling in freezer to firm.
- When filling is more firm, remove from freezer and shape into tiny balls.
- Place one small ball of filling into each mold, on top of the hardened chocolate.
- Spoon the remaining chocolate all over the filling and fill the mold.
- Level off the mold with a knife, if desired, for a nicely shaped candy.
- Chill until firm and store in fridge or freezer (if you can keep out of them that long).
Nutrition
Calories: 255kcal | Carbohydrates: 4g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 27g | Saturated Fat: 5g | Sodium: 279mg | Potassium: 125mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 1g | Vitamin A: 901IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 47mg | Iron: 1mg | Net Carbs: 2g