Vegan Peanut Butter Cups

    Easter is soon to be upon us! I do love Easter. The joyous mood is set because I am celebrating the eternal life I am able to have because of my savior. Secondly, it's of course fun to decorate eggs which I plan to do on skype with the rest of my family later today. And finally, I get to make and consume chocolate. Happy day.
    I am usually not a big Easter candy person, in fact when I lived with my parents, my Easter candy usually ended up in a box that would stay there till the next Easter when I would go to dump in more Easter candy. Yes, I was an abnormal child. Anyway, in spite of my lack of desire to eat the candy I got, there was always one little bit of goodness that I would consume on Easter morning : Homemade peanut butter eggs! Yum! This is my one Easter weakness, so, I of course set out to find a healthier way to make them that did not involve copious amounts of powdered sugar.
    Yesterday I grabbed my kindle and planted myself on the couch until I came up with a doable recipe for some form of chocolaty peanut butter goodness. After picking and choosing different ingredients from different recipes, here is what I came up with:

Healthy Vegan Peanut Butter Cups

Ingredients:

1 cup coconut oil (melted)

1 cup carob powder

1/4 cup + 1 tbs honey

1/2 cup natural peanut butter

1 1/2 tbs nutritional yeast 

1/4 tsp salt (if your peanut butter is unsalted)

Directions:

1) Mix together coconut oil, carob powder and 1/4 cup of honey. 2) spoon into a tart pan enough of the mixture to cover the bottom and then put it in the freezer 3) Mix together peanut butter, 1 tbs honey, nutritional yeast, and salt (if using). 4) take the tart pan out of the freezer and scoop a little bit of the peanut butter mixture into the center of each piece of chocolate (carob). 5) With the remaining carob mixture, cover each blob of peanut butter. 6) put the tart pan back in the freezer. 7) when they are frozen, poke each one out with a knife and wrap each one in foil. 8) Put back into the freezer until you are ready for them.

Yummzers!