Peanut Butter Popsicles – Chocolate Coated Katie

Clean, wealthy, creamy, and dipped in melted chocolate, this scrumptious wholesome peanut butter popsicles recipe tastes like consuming a frozen Reese’s peanut butter cup!

Wholesome peanut butter popsicles

With a frozen peanut butter heart and easy chocolate shell, these peanut butter pops are every little thing you may ever need in a dessert.

And but they’re additionally nutritious and filling on the identical time, full of iron, calcium, potassium, and over 5 grams of protein every!

These popsicles are the proper wholesome indulgence to beat the summer season warmth.

Additionally make this Protein Banana Bread

Simple peanut butter pudding pops

Have I ever instructed you in regards to the chocolate Reese’s peanut butter cup section I went by means of in center college?

On weekends going to the flicks with buddies, we’d at all times cease on the grocery retailer beforehand to fill up on sweet.

I used to be utterly obsessive about Reese’s peanut butter cups and would often purchase three or 4 packages, all for myself.

Actually, I might eat a lot sugar again then.

Toaster strudels or Eggo waffles saturated with syrup at breakfast, chocolate bars packed into my lunch field, giant Baskin Robbins milkshakes after college…

My mom introduced us up on a really wholesome and balanced means of consuming, with quite a lot of greens at each meal, and I counted broccoli and brussels sprouts amongst my favourite meals whilst a toddler.

However I’ve at all times been an individual who eats dessert each day.

Watch the peanut butter popsicle recipe video above

And any dessert that features the mixture of chocolate and peanut butter is very tough for me to withstand.

I feel I’d eat my shoe in case you coated it in chocolate and peanut butter.

Fortunately, these do-it-yourself peanut butter pops style significantly better than sneakers.

And on the identical time, they’re additionally a lot more healthy than consuming 4 packs of Reese’s peanut butter cups in a single sitting!

Substances for peanut butter banana popsicles

You will want peanut butter, milk of alternative, a pinch of salt, optionally available sweetener of alternative, and optionally available bananas and chocolate.

The popsicle recipe could be made with out banana in case you want.

Any creamy or crunchy peanut butter will work, whether or not it’s pure or the shelf steady sort from manufacturers like Peter Pan, Skippy, or Jif.

Be happy to alter up the flavour by swapping out the peanut butter with almond butter, cashew butter, coconut butter, or this Selfmade Nutella Recipe.

For popsicles with no banana, simply add an additional half cup nut butter of option to the recipe. Additionally, you will most definitely want to extend the sweetener to equal the pure sweetness of the bananas.

Vegan and keto choices

For vegan popsicles, use your favourite dairy free and plant based mostly milk, resembling almond milk, soy milk, or coconut milk.

The recipe has no eggs and is gluten free.

For keto popsicles, use coconut butter as an alternative of the bananas. You may as well substitute the peanut butter for a low carb nut, resembling macadamia butter.

Easy methods to make peanut butter popsicles

Collect your whole popsicle components and tools, and skim by means of the guidelines and methods included beneath.

Mix the peanut butter, salt, milk of alternative, sweetener, and optionally available banana collectively till utterly easy.

Utilizing a blender or meals processor will yield the very best texture, however you may technically mash every little thing collectively by hand in case you are extraordinarily affected person.

Pour the combination into popsicle molds or Dixie cups, and freeze. If utilizing cups, add a popsicle stick or spoon to every pop when it is just partially frozen.

Chocolate coated peanut butter pops

If you need in your popsicles to have a chocolate shell (and who wouldn’t??), you have got two choices:

The primary possibility is to soften half a cup of chocolate chips or damaged chocolate items rigorously within the microwave or utilizing a double boiler technique. For a smoother sauce, you may stir in an optionally available half teaspoon of vegetable or coconut oil after melting.

The second possibility is to make your individual chocolate sauce by stirring collectively a teaspoon of cocoa powder or uncooked cacao powder, a tablespoon of melted coconut oil, and half a tablespoon of pure maple syrup, honey, or agave.

Take one frozen peanut butter popsicle from the freezer, dip it into the chocolate sauce, and place it on a plate lined with both wax paper or parchment paper.

Return it to the freezer to set the chocolate shell, and repeat with all remaining pops.

Selfmade popsicle suggestions and methods

If you don’t personal popsicle molds, merely use paper cups as an alternative.

Yow will discover wood popsicle sticks at most craft shops, like Michaels or Joann Materials. Or you may insert a small spoon into every pop as an alternative of a popsicle stick.

To get the popsicle sticks to remain upright, I like to recommend freezing the pops for a few half hour, till agency however not rock exhausting. Then add the popsicle sticks and return the peanut butter pops to the freezer.

To take away do-it-yourself pops from the molds, run them beneath mildly scorching water for about fifteen seconds, then gently twist.

Leftover peanut butter? Stir it into this Chia Pudding Recipe

This recipe was tailored from my Peanut Butter Banana Smoothie.

Extra Peanut Butter Desserts

Banana Oatmeal Cookies

Peanut Butter Mousse

Keto Peanut Butter Cookies

Chocolate In a single day Oats

Peanut Butter Brownies

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