Homemade gifts have that special personal touch that you’ve lovingly taken the time to create. When I receive homemade gifts, they always make me feel extra special because I know how much effort they involve. If you haven’t quite finished your Christmas shopping yet and feeling creative these salted chocolate peanut butter chocolates will be perfect.
Kids love making these and who doesn’t like getting messy in the kitchen with melted chocolate, and obviously licking the bowl afterward is obligatory. You could leave them as they are, however, I thought they would be fun Christmas tree decorations with the simple addition of some decorative butchers twine as the handles. I went with some white, red and green twine because it reminded me of festive candy cane.
- 1 bar of Dr. Oetker Fine Cooks' Milk or Dark Chocolate
- Smooth peanut butter to fill the chocolate centres
- Sea salt
- Dr. Oetker Chocolatey Mix optional
- Dr. Oetker Gold or Silver Shimmer Spray optional
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Melt the chocolate in a microwave for approximately 2 minutes, remembering to stir every 30 seconds.
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Take a silicon chocolate mould and pour in your preferred sprinkles (I used Dr. Oetker Chocolatey Mix) and fill the moulds halfway with the melted chocolate. Next add half a teaspoon of smooth peanut butter and a small pinch of sea salt.
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Fill the moulds with the remaining chocolate until full.
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If you want to turn the chocolates into tree decorations now is the time to add the butchers twine, while the chocolate is still melted.
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Allow the chocolate to cool and set before removing from the moulds.
They look really pretty sprayed with Dr. Oetker Gold or Silver Shimmer Spray.
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Peanut butter and chocolate is the ultimate combination and when they have finally set, you can go completely crazy with the decorations. My favourite were the Chocolatey Mix by Dr. Oetker; full of a variety of chocolate sprinkles which helped to make the chocolates even more festive. Some gold or silver sparkle spray or icing would also be fantastic!
Have you made any edible gifts this year?
*Recipe commissioned by Dr. Oetker, but all opinions are my own.
These look utterly divine! What a touching, delicious gift.
These are so pretty and sound really nice, and so easy to make am going to have to try thee x
These are so cute and chocolate and peanut butter are such a delicious combination. The addition of the sea salt sounds really good too, I will have to try that sometime! I love giving and receiving homemade gifts at Christmas x
These are fab, where did you get the moulds from? I love Salted caramel so much!
Thank you, Sus! I grabbed the moulds from Amazon.
wow i gave u any refined sugar in April but these are gorgeous and you are so talented! k x
Oh. My. Goodness. These are my type of heaven! I love anything chocolately, salty and peanutty! Best combination ever! Thank you for the recipe – I would make them but I am the only one who likes them (although that isn’t a bad thing!)
These are so cute! What a fantastic gift idea
These look awesome. A great treat for christmas or as a dessert x
Just reading the title made me smile 🙂 I love salted chocolate and even more when it is mixed with PB! The way you presented it overall is so cute as well! Wish I had found this sooner to make for the holidays! Will try it out next year 🙂
Salted peanut butter chocolates pretty much sound like the best thing ever as they combine the best two things chocolate and peanut butter. Can I put an order in now?! haha x
You had me at peanut butter!!! These look so lovely, I wish I was more domestic, but saying that your recipe does not look super complicated so I may try it!! Have a wonderful Christmas!!
Well… hello new obsession! These salted peanut butter chocolates look incredible!
This chocolate sounds so good. I didn’t even know you could make such chocolate at home. Thank you for sharing this!
Oh wow these look amazing! And a perfect treat for Christmas too! x
Wow, these look and sound amazing, pretty sure they taste pretty amazing too!!
OMG these sound like heaven what a wonderful idea. Bet my hubby and kids would love these too!!!!
One word – amazing. They make my maltesers just look so ordinary in comparison x
These look and sound so lovely! How do you know how to make so many delicious things? ??x
These look amazing and salted peanut butter sounds so nice too. These look great for Christmas 🙂
We are a rustic tree family but if we were not I would so be making these sweet treats. Although I would have to make double for obvious reasons!
All our favourite combinations, peanut butter, chocolate and anything salted – very yummy and indulgent 🙂 love the way you’ve hung them as well!
Wow these look and sound amazing – I admit I buy most of our treats but we really should be making things like this
These tree decorations look amazing and delicious too. What a good idea and a fun way to get the kids involved.
These look so yummy I was looking for a Christmas craft/bake for tomorrow. Think this is it thank you
A personalised hand made gift made of chocolate is a winner in my book. These are absolutely gorgeous, and I bet they are delicious too. Thanks for sharing! x