Reese’s has a different shape for their classic peanut butter cup treats every season. I love the trees at Christmas and the pumpkins at Halloween, but it’s the oval eggs at Easter that are my favorite. These taste like the real deal, except even better. Paul and I kept walking through the kitchen and slivering off pieces of the eggs and congratulating ourselves on how egg-cellent they were. Groan all you want, but I feel like that pun is mandatory at least once every Easter season. Sure you can buy these at the store, but why would you when you can make them yourself at home and they taste even better! If you love the peanut butter chocolate combo, you might also like to try our Chocolate Peanut Butter No Bake Cookies or Big, Soft Baked Peanut Butter M&M Cookies. I really enjoy making homemade candy at holidays, so even though I know I could just walk into the store and pick up some of these, I think they are even better made at home. Sometimes the packaged ones are a little greasy, but when you make them yourself they just taste better somehow! Plus, these make a wonderful treat for sharing with friends and neighbors during the Easter season! Or just imagine sitting down to Easter dinner with a cute personalized egg next to everyone’s plate!
What you’ll need
This is one recipe where I don’t have many substitutions to offer you. To get the right results, it’s pretty necessary to stick with the ingredients below.
Peanut Butter: I recommend creamy peanut butter for the best results, although you could use chunky if you like. Don’t use the “natural” kind that you have to stir though, because it doesn’t give the same results in this recipe. Dry Roasted Peanuts: This is my secret ingredient that sets these apart as the BEST Reese’s peanut butter eggs out there! I saw the idea to grind up dry roasted peanut until they were a mealy consistency in a comment on an AllRecipes from a reader called “TheWelshmansWife” and immediately knew it was what I had been searching for to really achieve that classic texture that I love so much about the Reese’s filling. Powdered Sugar: The sweetness of the sugar balances out the saltiness of the peanut butter and peanuts, plus it helps give the right texture to the mixture. Butter: Melted, salted butter adds flavor and helps with binding the mixture together. Vanilla Extract: I love using my homemade vanilla extract! Milk: Only add as much as you need. The classic Reese’s filling is on the dry side, but you might need a bit of the milk to get everything to bind together. Chocolate: You can use whichever chocolate you like, whether it’s dark chocolate, milk chocolate, or white chocolate. I like using the Ghiradelli chocolate wafers both for convenience and because I feel like they have a good quality chocolate flavor.
How to Make Reese’s Peanut Butter Eggs
It takes no-time at all to whip up these homemade Reese’s eggs! Just be sure to use your hand mixer, since the peanut butter mixture will be very thick. The hardest part is waiting for the eggs to set up in the freezer so you can dip them!
Can I use chocolate chips instead?
You can use milk 2 bags of milk chocolate chips melted with 2 tablespoons of coconut oil or shortening instead of the Ghiradelli melting chocolate wafers. But I recommend using the highest quality chocolate you can for the best results as not all chocolate chips melt well. The coconut oil or shortening helps smooth out the chocolate and reharden rather than tempering the chocolate.
How to decorate Reese’s Peanut Butter Eggs
Sure you can just dip these in chocolate and call it good, but as long as you are making a homemade version, why not go ahead and add a little decoration to make them even more festive?
Chocolate Drizzles
My favorite approach is to drizzle the dipped eggs in matching or contrasting chocolate zig-zags. Not only is it easy and a good way to use up the rest of your melted chocolate (not to mention increase your chocolate-to-peanut butter ratio), but it also covers up imperfections in your dipping if that’s something you stuggle with. (Guilty.)
Personalized Eggs
Another idea that I love is for use a small round piping tip to personalize the eggs by piping the names of your favorite people in chocolate on top of each egg. You might want to practice on a plate or spare parchment paper first, but if your hand is steady this can turn out super cute!
Sprinkles turn anyone into a Star Baker
Finally, you can always go the sprinkle route and use some festive Easter sprinkles to fancy up your chocolate peanut butter eggs! The only caveat here is that you need to sprinkle the eggs almost immediately after dipping each one because the chocolate tends to start setting up quickly on the cold peanut butter filling.
How to store Reese’s Peanut Butter Eggs
If it’s not too warm in your house, you can store these in an airtight container on the counter at room temperature for 1-2 days. Any longer than that and I recommend sticking them in the fridge for 1-2 weeks, or in the freezer for 2-3 months. If you have never had cold Reese’s peanut butter cups, you have been missing out!
More Easter Recipes
Robin’s Egg Easter Cupcakes Easy Flower Pretzel Bites Hot Cross Buns Homemade Banana Pudding Strawberries and Cream Sheet Cake
More Homemade Candy Recipes
Old-Fashioned Divinity Candy Recipe Chocolate Pecan Pralines Old-Fashioned Easy Peanut Butter Fudge Chocolate Coated Honeycomb Candy Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Fudge
Recipe adapted from AllRecipes.
Homemade Peppermint Patties
Churro Toffee (Disneyland Copycat Recipe)
Homemade Turtles Candy
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