I mean… peanut 👏 butter 👏 cup 👏 granola.

If you don’t want to buy peanut butter cups but have chocolate, coconut oil and peanut butter on hand, I’ll give you a crazy trick to create the same effect without leaving home to go to the store.

Let me know if you give this a try!

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5 from 1 vote

Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup Granola

Prep Time10

Cook Time1 15

Course: Breakfast, Dessert, Snack

Keyword: chocolate, easy recipes, gluten-free, granola, low sugar, oatmeal, peanut butter, peanut butter cups, plant-based, vegan

Servings: servings

Calories: 148kcal

Equipment

Cookie sheet or similar wide pan

Ingredients

1/4 cup coconut oil, melted (60 g) sub any other oil
1/4 cup peanut butter (64 g) sub any other nut/seed butter
1/4 cup maple syrup (84 g)
4 cups rolled oats (320 g)
1/4 cup cocoa powder (24 g)
1/4 tsp salt
1 cup chopped peanut butter cups (120 g)

Instructions

Preheat oven to 250F and line a cookie sheet with parchment.
In a large bowl melt coconut oil (I use the microwave) and blend with peanut butter, maple syrup, cocoa powder.
If you want clusters in your granola, process 1 cup oats in to oat flour. Otherwise skip this step.
In a large bowl whisk together oats (and oat flour).
Pour dry into wet and mix until oats are thoroughly coated.
Spread evenly into cookie sheet and bake 1 hour to 1 hour 15 minutes, quickly stirring every 15 minutes for even baking.
Let granola cool completely and stir in chopped peanut butter cups.
Store in a sealed container. Enjoy! Keeps forever.

Notes

If you don’t want to run to the store to get peanut butter cups here’s what you do.

In a small bowl add 1/2 cup chocolate chips and 1 tsp coconut oil, melt in 30 sec increments in the microwave.
Pour into a parchment lined container and drizzle 2 tbsp peanut butter on top.
Put it in the freezer and let it become solid, then it take out and chop into small pieces.
Voila, use as you would chopped peanut butter cups!