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Recently my boyfriend and I made a big order from an American grocery online store because we really wanted to try out different American candies that weren’t sold in Germany.

For once because we were looking for more keto “copycat” recipe ideas to make for this blog and also because we really wanted to have a relaxing cheat day.

Well, while we were trying all of the different things we ordered I realized how little enjoyment I felt.
It was truly disappointing because I didn’t have a “real” cheat day in a long time and I remembered how much I usually craved cheat days.

I had the feeling that my teeth started to hurt almost immediately after I took my first bite and the thoughts of my blood sugar rising and crashing like a roller coaster dampened the experience quite a bit.

After being on a primarily low carb diet for the last 3-4 years (I wasn’t keto the whole time) I finally reached the point I never thought I could reach:
I hate eating sugar.
It doesn’t give me any enjoyment anymore and I truly feel like crap now whenever I have it.

I feel like my lifelong addiction to sugar is truly over now.
The cheat day was more like a habit than a true craving – eating sugar didn’t satisfy my cravings anymore.
It didn’t feel like a treat at all – it felt like a burden.

Wow, that’s quite a sucess isn’t it?
That doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy sweet things here and there – my blog is mostly comprised of keto treats and sweets and I really love to eat those.

The big difference is: I’m not addicted to them.
I like sweetness and I’m very happy about great sugar replacements like erythritol, but I can live without it.
That’s probably one of the biggest changes the ketogenic diet made in my life.

Why have “real” candy when you can have ketogenic copycats like these keto peanut butter cups?
I can’t answer that question anymore.
I’d always prefer the sugar-free version now!

And I hope you’ll take a look through my recipes and find sweets that’ll satisfy you even more than sugar-loaden treats could as well.

Phew, quite a long intro for these peanut butter cups!
But that was something I really wanted to share with you because I never thought that would be possible!
Keep going and stay patient, we’re in it together. 🙂

OTHER KETO PEANUT BUTTER TREATS:

 
Eager for more delicious keto peanut butter treats? I’ve got you covered! Check out these posts too:
 

Crunchy Keto Peanut Butter Fat Bombs

Peanut Butter Keto Mug Cake

Chocolate-Covered Peanut Butter Keto Fat Bombs

Healthy No Bake Keto Snickers Bars

The Easiest Keto Peanut Butter Cookies Ever

KETO PEANUT BUTTER CUPS INGREDIENTS:

(You can find the exact amounts needed in the recipe card at the end of this post!

HOW TO MAKE KETO PEANUT BUTTER CUPS:

 
1. Melt chocolate & fill it into the cups:
Melt the sugar-free chocolate using a double boiler or in your microwave.

Prepare 6 cupcake liners and pour about 2 tsp of the chocolate into each cupcake liner.
Chill the cups in your fridge for approx. 10-15 minutes until the chocolate hardened up.

 
2. Prepare peanut butter filling:
While the chocolate is chilling in the fridge, prepare the peanut butter filling by mixing the sugar-free peanut butter with the granulated erythritol.

☝︎ The consistency of your peanut butter might highly affect the outcome of the whole recipe!
In my experience, the consistency of all natural peanut butter can vary A LOT.

If the peanut butter you chose happens to be a bit more on the “runny” side (e.g. very mushy and not like “normal” peanut butter), I highly recommend adding a bit of almond flour or swapping the granulated erythritol for powdered erythritol to increase the texture of the peanut butter filling.

 
3. Add peanut butter filling to chocolate bottom:
Distribute the peanut butter filling to the cupcake liners with chocolate bottom inside.

Pour the remaining chocolate on top of the peanut butter filling (approx. 1 tbsp per cup) and place the cups back in the fridge for an additional 10-15 minutes.

 
4. Enjoy:
Enjoy after the chocolate hardened up!

Storing the keto peanut butter cups in the fridge might be a good idea because they’ll keep longer, but it may take away a bit of their “feel” because the chocolate will be quite hard.
They’ll keep for at least 1-2 weeks in your fridge.

 
Nutrition Info:
One keto peanut butter cup has 3.4g net carbs (4.1g total carbs and 0.7g dietary fiber), 17.3g fat, 3.7g protein, and 193 calories.

I used the very dark 90% Lindt chocolate for this recipe and the correlating nutrition info for my calculations.

(I try to be as accurate as possible with this information, but values may vary because of natural occurring fluctuations and different products used.)

Q: How do you include Erythritol in your calculations?

A: The short answer is: I don’t, and I can tell you why.


Erythritol is a sugar alcohol which your body can’t digest.
If you ingest it, it won’t spike your blood sugar & it won’t release insulin (which is a good thing if you want to stay in ketosis).

It passes through our system basically “untouched”.
Because of this, you can subtract the carbs from erythritol completely, which is what I always do. 

OTHER KETO TREATS:

Healthy No Bake Keto Snickers Bars

Pecan Pie Keto Fat Bombs

Healthy Ferrero Rocher Keto Fat Bombs

Velvety No Bake Keto Brownie Bites

Keto Oreo Cookies

Healthy No Bake Keto Coconut Bars (Homemade Mounds Bars/ Bounty Bars)