Homemade Pumpkin Spice Pecan Butter Cups
Why make homemade peanut butter cups when you can create decadent pumpkin spice PECAN butter cups combined with delicious pure pumpkin? It's easy when you melt chocolate chips and you can even use fresh pecans to make your own pecan butter. The only problem? These are mildly addicting.
Ingredients
Homemade Pecan Butter
- 1 ½ cups fresh pecan halves I used Mammoth pecan halves
- pinch kosher salt
Homemade Pumpkin Spice Pecan Butter Cups
- 14 ounces semi sweet chocolate chips
- ½ cup pecan butter stirred to mix any separated oil evenly throughout butter
- ¼ cup + 1 tablespoon confectioner's sugar
- ¼ cup pure pumpkin
- 1 ¼ tablespoons pumpkin spice
- ½ tablespoon pecan oil optional
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- pinch coarse sea salt for sprinkling over the finished product
Instructions
Homemade Pecan Butter
- In a skillet over medium heat, roast pecan halves for about 5 minutes. Shift the pan a few times to keep the pecans from roasting in one spot.
- Add pecan halves and the pinch of kosher salt to a food processor. Grind for 15 - 20 minutes, stopping a few times to incorporate anything sticking to the side into the butter. The butter has reached the appropriate consistency when it is smooth throughout and starting to "weep" oil.
Homemade Pumpkin Spice Pecan Butter Cups
- Melt ¾ cup of semi sweet chocolate chips in a double broiler, stirring consistently. If using a microwave, cook in 30 second intervals, stirring after each interval, until smooth.
- Line a mini muffin pan with mini cupcake liners.
- Using a small (½ tsp) measuring scoop or brush, evenly distribute the chocolate throughout each cup. If needed, make flat using the back of the spoon, or gentle strokes of the brush until the chocolate is about ⅛ inch thick and covers the entire bottom of each cup. Let sit in the refrigerator for about 20 minutes.
- While the first chocolate cools, combine pecan butter, pumpkin, confectioner's sugar, pumpkin spice, pure vanilla extract, salt, and pecan oil (if using) in a small bowl until thoroughly combined. Add to Ziploc bag and squeeze out air before closing.
- Cut a small hole in one bottom corner of the bag and pipe about 1 to 1 ½ teaspoon of the pecan butter pumpkin mixture into each cup. Using your finger (slightly dampen it, if needed) or back of a small teaspoon, make the filling the size of a disc with a flat top and round edges. Keep it from touching the sides of the cupcake liners.
- Melt the remaining chocolate. Using a small teaspoon, scoop the chocolate over the filling until it fills in the sides and thoroughly covers the top. Sprinkle with coarse sea salt, if desired, and let it sit in the refrigerator for about 30 minutes before serving. Enjoy!
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