I know I've talked before about my nut butter addiction. Basically, I have a ridiculously large collection of nut butters in my fridge and cupboards because I'm unable to walk past a display and not grab a jar to take home and sample. Sunflower seed, cashew, almond, peanut...I love them all. My latest obsession is chocolate nut butters, where the manufacturers save me the trouble of adding chocolate chips to my sandwiches (true fact) and mix cocoa right into the nut butter itself! I've experimented with chocolate peanut, chocolate almond, and chocolate hazelnut, and they're all pretty amazing. I first came up with this recipe for Crispy Almond Cups using chocolate almond butter and crispy rice cereal in the filling. It was as simple as that: just mix the two ingredients together, and go! But I realized that most people probably don't share my love of impulse-buying nut butters (I hope not, at least. It's an expensive hobby!) so I tweaked the recipe so that it calls for regular almond butter instead--but you can substitute any nut butter of your choice with good results. The butter is mixed with melted chocolate, a little powdered sugar, and crispy rice cereal to produce a crunchy, rich filling with lots of nutty taste and a hint of chocolate. Use your newfound abilities to make chocolate cups and whip up a batch of these today!
Get the recipe: Crispy Almond Cups
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