Addicting Healthy “Reeses” Recipe

Reeses are one of my favorite sweets. The combination of chocolate and peanut butter is simply heaven on earth. And since peanuts are one of the easiest crops to grow in my southern climate, we eat lots of it. This addicting, healthy reeses recipe will more than satisfy the chocolate peanut butter craving without guilt! You may even discover you love this homemade version much more than the store bought stuff 🙂

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Ingredients for homemade healthy “reeses”

• Natural peanut butter – the only ingredients should be the peanuts and salt. If you’re allergic to peanuts or struggle eating legumes, use a seed or nut butter instead.
• Almond flour – this binds the peanut butter together and is also easy to make. We use the pulp leftover from making almond milk.
• Hemp hearts – shelled seeds from hemp plants. I only discovered these recently and let me tell you, I’m in love. They are so mild and nutty I put them on anything. Right now I’m loving fried eggs with feta and hemp seeds, sooooo good.
• Honey or maple syrup – use raw local honey is you can afford it or pure maple syrup.
• Chocolate chips – choose whatever kind you love, dark chocolate is a favorite for us.
• Coconut oil – just a bit to help melt the chocolate. This is optional but it does help keep the chocolate runny longer which is great when you are coating rounds of peanut butter dough.
• Sea salt – for sprinkling over the top, also totally optional. We love Redmond’s salt for this.

The process

Mix together peanut butter, almond flour, hemp hearts, honey/maple syrup in a small mixing bowl.

In a microwave safe bowl, add the chocolate and coconut oil. Microwave in 30 second bursts mixing in between until fully melted and runny.

Shape the dough into patties or if you are short on time, (time is money after all), shape the whole thing into a square for bars.

Coat the patties in the chocolate and place on a parchment paper lined tray. Repeat until all the peanut butter is used up. Chill in the fridge or freezer until the chocolate is set. Once chilled, if shaping into bars, cut the square in half and then in one inch strips horizontally.

We most after make bars, since making patties or shaping into a muffin tin can be tedious. Plus we prefer a greater peanut butter to chocolate ratio 😋

Store the homemade, healthy reeses in the fridge and snack on as desired. These seriously go by way too fast around here. I hope you all love this recipe as much as we do!

Happy no-guilt snacking! 😊