Dark Chocolate Covered Sunflower Seed Butter Cups
Sunflower Seed Butter Cups are a fun twist on classic peanut butter cups. Dark chocolate, sun butter, honey, and sea salt are all you need!
These yummy little homemade sunbutter cups are perfect if you have to avoid peanuts due to nut allergies, or even if you don’t. They are just as good as a classic peanut butter cup! Sunflower seed butter sweetened with honey gets enveloped in smooth dark chocolate for the perfect balance of sweetness. And don’t forget a delicate sprinkle of sea salt! Let’s make them!
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Ingredients
Sunflower seed butter cups
- Chocolate – I like using dark chocolate but milk chocolate works just as well
- SunButter/Sunflower seed butter – If you’d like to cut down on the sugar, try the Sunbutter brand Natural. Trader Joe’s Sunflower Seed Spread has powdered sugar added already.
- Honey
- Sea salt – I love adding a pinch of salt to almost any sweet treat to give it that wow factor.
Where can I find sunflower seed butter?
I usually get my sunflower seed butter at Trader Joe’s or Whole Foods, but a lot of grocery stores carry it in the nut butter section. You can also find it on Amazon.
Does sunflower seed butter taste good?
I think so! If you can’t have peanut or other nut butters, this is a good alternative. If you don’t like the taste of sunflower seeds you might not enjoy it. It’s super smooth and you can buy it sweetened or unsweetened. I like to get unsweetened so I can control the amount and the type of sugar that I use.
What kind of chocolate should I use?
I used the Pound Plus dark chocolate bar from Trader Joe’s. It’s 72% cacao dark chocolate, so it’s on the less sweet side (its first ingredient is unsweetened chocolate). For the recipe as written, I used half of the bar. I recommend going with something like this rather than chocolate chips but you can use chocolate chips if you need to.
How to make Sunflower Seed Butter Cups
Mix sunflower seed butter and honey
Mix sunflower seed butter and honey in a small bowl until combined. You can also use powdered sugar instead of honey.
Melt chocolate
Chop the chocolate and melt in the microwave until smooth (make sure to use a microwave-safe container!)
Add chocolate and sunbutter layer
Place cupcake liners in a cupcake baking pan, then add dark chocolate to each liner. Next, add the sunflower seed butter/honey mixture. It doesn’t have to look perfect; it’s getting covered with chocolate anyway! Just try to spread it around as evenly as you can.
Add the top layer of chocolate
Add more melted chocolate to the top of each cup! Use the back of a spoon to smooth it out.
Set & enjoy!
Place the cupcake pan in the fridge for about 1 hour to set, then store at room temperature. Enjoy!
These sunbutter cups are so good and so easy to make, I know you’ll love them! If you are looking for peanut butter instead of sunflower butter, try these dark chocolate peanut butter cups!
Storage Instructions
To store these dark chocolate cups, place them in an airtight container in the fridge for up to one month or at room temperature for up to a week.
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Dark Chocolate Covered Sunflower Seed Butter Cups
These easy little sunflower butter cups are so tasty! Perfect addition to lunch boxes!
- Prep Time: 30 minutes
- Total Time: 30 minutes
- Yield: 6 1x
- Category: Dessert, Snack
Ingredients
- 2 cups chopped dark chocolate (melted)
- 1/2 cup sunflower seed butter (unsweetened)
- 2 tbsp honey
Instructions
- Combine honey and sunflower seed butter in a small bowl and set aside.
- Place 2 cups of chopped dark chocolate in a microwave safe bowl and microwave in 1 minute increments until smooth. Stir after each minute.
- Line a cupcake pan with 6 paper liners. Add 2 tbsp melted dark chocolate to each liner.
- Place 1 tbsp of sunflower seed butter in each liner on top of chocolate. You can microwave the sunflower butter for 30 seconds to make it softer.
- Add about 1 tbsp more of chocolate on top of sunflower seed butter and smooth out the top with a spoon.
- Place in the refrigerator to set for about 1 hour, then store at room temperature.
- Top with sea salt if desired.
