Homemade Easter Peanut Butter Eggs Church Recipe

This Peanut Butter Easter Eggs church recipe is easy and super TASTY!!! They taste like a church kitchen full of cute little grandmothers made them with love and years of expertise. Plus, they’re gluten free.

When my husband was a church organist, he’d come home with rectangular white boxes of labled peanut butter and buttercream eggs that the church ladies made in the church kitchen. He’d say they were a “thank you” gift to him and his family. They were always delcious! I’d always wanted the recipe. It’s such a nice tradition to pass down through the generations.

Because they’re made with simple ingredients you probably already have in your pantry, you can probably make them today! And, because they freeze well, they’re a perfect finger dessert to have at Easter time that you can make ahead of the holiday when you already have a lot to do.

Put them in your kids’ or grandkids’ Easter baskets in cute floral boxes or plastic eggs. However, these delicious candies aren’t just for Easter time, they’re great for Christmas too. Just roll them into balls instead and top them with some festive sprinkles.

 The creamy peanut butter filling is addictive! I bet you can’t eat just one.

Nothing taste better than homemade peanut butter eggs! They taste better than a Reese’s Peanut Butter Egg, in my opinion because they’re fresh. Shh Don’t tell Hersheys.

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​The best part is that these delicious candy eggs freeze very well so you can pull them out weeks or even months later to enjoy. Personally, I think they taste better when they’re frozen and thawed for a few minutes. 

What kind of peanut butter to use?

This recipe calls for creamy peanut butter but, you can use the crunchy peanut butter if you wish. I don’t suggest using the natural peanut butter though because they won’t turn out with the right consistency according to what I’ve read but, I haven’t tested that myself. If you have, let me know in the comments.

What kind of chocolate to use?

I used semi-sweet chocolate chips but, you can use milk chocolate or dark chocolate instead. You may use baking bars or chocolate melts. I suggest using good quality chocolate. 

I bought my kids solid chocolate bunnies last year and kept them in the refrigerator. When I saw they hadn’t eaten them after months had gone by, I melted them to make chocolate covered strawberries. I was please I didn’t have to waste the money I’d paid!

What kind of butter to use?

I used salted butter for this recipe, but you can use unsalted if you prefer.

Decorations

You can add sugar flowers, pastel sprinkles, non-parils or colored sugar right after dipping them in chocolate. Alsom, you can drizzle white chocolate or pastel colored chocolate on top for a more festive look.

Peanut Butter Easter Eggs Church Recipe

Kitchen Tools

• baking sheets
• double boiler or microwave (to melt chocolate)
• wax paper or parchment paper
• mixer
• small deep bowl for dipping eggs into melted chocolate (1 cup volume and about 3 inches long and 3 inches in height)

Ingredients

*The full, printable recipe is at the bottom of this post in the recipe card where you can adjust the servings.

• smooth peanut butter
• salted butter
• powdered sugar
• vanilla extract
• baking chocolate or semi sweet chocolate chips or milk or dark chocolate melts
• optional- coconut oil or parafin wax for a shiny smooth finish

Instructions

1. First, make room in your refrigerator for the baking sheets. The peanut butter eggs will need to cool two times (before and after coating them with chocolate.)
2. Then, melt the butter in a microwave safe bowl. TIP: I always cover the bowl with a wet paper towel to stop butter from splattering in the microwave.
3. Next, combine peanut butter with the melted butter and mix until it’s smooth.
4. Next, to a large mixing bowl add: peanut butter mixture, powdered sugar, and vanilla extract. Again, mix until smooth.
5. Then, refrigerate the peanut butter mixture for about 20 minutes or more, if time allows, so it’s easier to handle or it’ll become too soft to roll.
6. Then, put wax paper or parchment paper on two (may need three) large baking sheets.
7. Next, roll the peanut butter mixture into balls and then elongate them with your fingers into egg shapes as big or small as you wish. Place eggs on the baking trays and refrigerate them for about 30 minutes or longer. The colder they are, the better they’ll stand up to the heat of the melted chocolate.
8. Next, you want to do the next steps in batches or the eggs will become too soft to handle at room temperature. Melt some of the chocolate in a double boiler or in your microwave in a microwave-safe bowl. If using coconut oil or parfin wax, stir in a teaspoon of either. Give the melted chocolate a good stir. Don’t melt all of the chocolate at once or it’ll start to harden before you’re done dipping and the eggs will become too soft to dip. Transfer some of the melted chocolate to a small, deep bowl for dipping the peanut butter eggs.
9. Then, using a teaspoon, dip the peanut butter eggs, one at a time into the melted chocolate and gently flip them over to fully coat. Try to remove  excess chocolate drip and place eggs on the wax or parchment paper-lined baking sheet. When the baking sheet is full, immediately place it in the refrigerator to cool. Repeat this step until you’re finished. TIP: After the peanut butter eggs have cooled, you can trim off the excess chocolate with a paring knife if you want to make them look a bit more tidy and somewhat uniform.

Storage

Store peanut butter eggs in an airtight container and refrigerate for several days or freezer for several months.

O.k. Mine are a little messy but, working with chocolate will be. Chocolate peanut butter eggs are so delicious and trust me when I say this, it will be so hard to eat just one! You may need to hide some for yourself. I suggest putting them in an empty frozen vegetable bag. No one will look there! LOL 

This easy peanut butter eggs recipe will have your friends and family asking you for the recipe. Make them ahead and store them in the freezer to pull out for Easter or anytime thereafter if they go uneaten that long! 

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