Keto Peanut Butter Chocolate Easter Eggs
This Keto Peanut Butter Chocolate Easter Eggs recipe is the perfect low carb and gluten-free Easter treat. Sweet creamy peanut butter on the inside with that delicious chocolate coating, who needs Reeses when you have these?
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup salted grass-fed butter melted and cooled
- 2 cups creamy no sugar added peanut butter
- 1/2 cup Besti Monk Fruit with Allulose Sweetener
- 1 tbsp real vanilla extract
- 4 cups Besti Monk Fruit with Allulose Powdered Sweetener
- 1 1/2 cups ChocZero semi-sweet chocolate chips ordark chocolate chips
- 1 1/2 cups ChocZero milk chocolate chips
- 2 tablespoons organic coconut oil
Instructions
- Line a half sheet baking pan with parchment paper and set it aside.
- Using a hand mixer beat together melted butter, peanut butter, sweetener, and vanilla extract until smooth and creamy.
- Beat in powdered sweetener
- Press peanut butter mixture onto the sheet pan, spreading to about 1/2 inch thickness.
- Place sheet pan in the freezer for 15 minutes.
- Lift the parchment paper to remove the chilled peanut butter layer from the pan.
- Place a new sheet of parchment paper on the pan.
- Use a cookie cutter to cut out 1/2 inch thick Easter egg shapes from the chilled peanut butter layer.
- Place cutouts on a parchment-lined sheet pan.
- Repress the remaining peanut butter mixture onto the sheet pan to 1/2 inch thickness, and cut out additional egg shapes.
- Freeze for 30 minutes
- After the "eggs" have been in the freezer for 25 minutes, make the chocolate coating.
- Combine semi-sweet and milk chocolate chips in a heatproof bowl with the coconut oil.
- Heat and stir in 30-second increments in the microwave until the chocolate is smooth and melted completely.
- Using a fork, lift one peanut butter cutout at a time and coat it completely with the melted chocolate. Tap excess chocolate off of the cutout and place it back onto the parchment-lined sheet pan.
- Work in batches if the peanut butter cutouts become soft too quickly.
- Place the sheet pan in the refrigerator to allow chocolate to harden.
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Nutrition
Calories: 269.23kcalCarbohydrates: 24.74gProtein: 7.34gFat: 20.93gSaturated Fat: 7.9gCholesterol: 1.27mgSodium: 3.85mgFiber: 22gSugar: 0.74g
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