Fruity Dark Chocolate Cherry Coconut Butter Cups make a tasty snack or dessert that’s perfectly bite-sized! Only 5 ingredients, vegan & gluten-free.
The fact that I have NO recipe for dark chocolate cups on my blog is seriously embarrassing. From the bottom of my heart, I am sorry for robbing you of the joy that is homemade candy. Let me make it up to you with cherry coconut butter cups, mkay?
It’s a dang shame that there are no chocolate cups on Emilie Eats because those little candies (*cough* Reese’s *cough*) were a cornerstone in my childhood. Right next to potato sticks (sticks, not chips), weekend donuts, and strawberries dipped in sugar. YES, straight white sugar. #savage
This all went down at my dad’s parent’s house, where I spent many weekends with my few close cousins. We would rent 234983 movies from Blockbuster (RIP) and eat all the junk food in the house. I was never really a junk food person, but at our grandparents’ house, that went out the window.
One thing that my grandmaw cannot live without is Reese’s peanut butter chocolate cups. Those are her kryptonite. We definitely went through hundreds upon hundreds of Reese’s among all of the grandchildren.
These coconut butter cups are just a upgrade of those dear old chocolate cups I used to love so much. There are so many recipes for homemade peanut butter chocolate cups out there (like this yummy one) so I didn’t want to be super #basic. I love sharing with you easy, simple recipes, but I still like to flex my creative muscles!
Replace peanut butter with cherry coconut butter, and you’re in for a fruity twist on America’s favorite candy (I think we can all agree on that, right?).
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