Peanut Butter Mousse Cups - Recipe Girl (2024)

Here’s a recipe to consider for the chocolate- peanut butter lover in your life > PEANUT BUTTER MOUSSE CUPS

Anyone can make this quick-and-easy dessert- even IF you claim you’re a horrible baker, I promise! It involves an easy-to-make peanut butter mousse served in a puff pastry cup and topped off with chocolate chips. I’d say this would make a fine Valentine’s Day treat, though it certainly makes for a delicious little dessert any time of the year. I accidentally ate five when I was testing them out. The perfectionist in me wanted to make sure they were perfect before sharing them with the world. That sounds like a valid excuse for eating five, doesn’t it?

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These are the cups to look for at the store. They’re made by Pepperidge Farm®,and you’ll find them in the frozen section near the pastries- like pie crust. These are mini dessert bites. If you’d prefer to make a more individual, larger-sized fancy dessert then pick up the Puff Pastry SHELLS instead.

The Puff Pastry cups are so easy to work with. Straight out of the freezer, you just break them apart and set them on your baking sheet with the “cut” lines facing up. They’ll puff up in the oven, as shown. Then you use the end of a wooden spoon to just poke down the middle. What results is a little Puff Pastry container in which to hold your filling. So easy!

This is all you need for the filling ingredients. Minimal fuss.

Mix peanut butter with the sugars, then add the cream and vanilla. There’s your peanut butter mousse filling

If you have a piping bag with a decorative tip, you can spoon the filling into the piping bag and pipe it into the cups. If not, just spoon it into the corner of a freezer zip baggie, snip off the corner of the baggie, and squeeze in the filling from there.

If you really love peanut butter, you can be done with your dessert right here and serve them up this way. I didn’t try this, but my husband also suggested hiding a little piece of banana under the peanut butter mousse (side note: he’s a big Elvis fan).

I finished them off with some chocolate chips. Other ideas: mini chocolate chips, chocolate sprinkles/jimmies, a small chocolate heart, a candy bar chunk… anything! Since these are one-bite desserts, you get a mouthful of peanut butter mousse and the benefit of some added chocolate too. Chocolate + Peanut Butter = LOVE.

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Disclosure: I am working with Pepperidge Farm over the next few months to create recipes using theirPuff Pastryproducts as part of their “Puff is the Spark” panel. This is a product that I use in my kitchen regularly. All opinions shared are my own.