Peanut Butter Cups in the Blanket

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I have made these several times and people loooove them! I use Reese's instead of making the peanut butter cups and it is sooo easy!!

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Paula Deen, this is the most ridiculous recipe you have ever posted. It's hard to trust your recipes after using this one. This recipe took us over 2 hours to make with 1/2 of the dough left over at the end. Furthermore, there was not enough chocolate and we couldn't get the first layer out of the tin and had to remelt the chocolate. The cups did not fit over top of the pastries at the end and so we had to use a cookie sheet and hand wrap them with puff pastry. After that, since we had to put the cups on a cookie sheet, the puff pastry fell off. As to say, the puff pastries are useless and after 10 minutes they hardly looked baked and required us to take them out early so they wouldn't cook the peanut butter.

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I have no earthly idea how some people thought this recipe was difficult. It was nothing more than buying ingredients, mixing and baking it. You could even eliminate the mixing step and just buy real peanut butter cups instead of making them. If you couldn't handle that I don't know how you still have the brain capacity to function. But as for the recipe I made some changes:
1. the graham crackers are pointless, i couldn't taste them. If they are just there for texture you could just use cruncy peanut butter, like i did.
2. Also it i personally didn't want to be scraping hardened chocolate out of a muffin tin so i made the peanut butter cups in little paper muffin things and just ripped them off.
3. And, in my opinian placing someplace on top of something doesn't really constitute it as "in a blanket" so I wrapped mine, kinda like a ravioli.

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This recipe seems simple but is so complicated and difficult. It's not even worth trying. The recipe calls for way more than you actually need. I ended up with so much chocolate and peanut butter mix left over.

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i just saw this on tv and thought it looked wonderful but after
reading the reviews here I would not use puff pastry.
I would use the Pillsbury Pie crust in the frigerated section of the
store. I made some tomato and cheese tart recipe that Paula
shared. I used these mini tart pans and they were the best.
So i would use the same concept.

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IMade these for Thanksgiving and my entire family loved them !! I changed to sugar substitue and used dark chocolate but the still turned out great.

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My cupcakes looked just like Paula's using the regular size muffin pan. But there was to much bread on each cupcake. Eaten cold, not exciting. Peanut butter mixture tasted very close to Reese's but had about half of it left over. Made 18 complete cupcakes with the peanut butter/chocolate mix.

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I saw this episode a long time ago and thought this would be a nice treat for Christmas. What a horrible mistake. The recipe is a waste -- way too much chocolate and filling. You are supposed to use 9 teaspoons of the peanut butter mix, but you have 4 1/2 cups of ingredients! You're also supposed to use just 9 teaspoons of chocolate on the bottom and enough chocolate to cover on the top, but the recipe calls for a whole pound of chocolate?!? The recipe doesn't say how long to cool the cups and I thought I waited long enough as the whole thing is only supposed to take an hour, but the chocolate wouldn't set and everything stuck to the mini muffin pan. I used a larger pan for the puff pastry as I figured a peanut butter cup the size of a mini muffin cup wouldn't fit into a pastry lined mini muffin cup and I'm thinking that was a good idea. But 10 minutes at 350 degrees left me with barely cooked pastry, bubbling over chocolate and really brown marshmallows. I took them out before they browned but they were horrible. Threw them all away. The only good thing out of this was the peanut butter balls I made from all the extra filling and chocolate. Hey Food Network, get the recipe right!!

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If your peanut butter mixture is a little dry, then try putting about 1/4 cup of
honey in the mixture. It really does something to the taste as well.

Don't forget to take the peanut butter cup out of the paper before you set
it down in the puff pastry. The paper didn't taste so good the first time.
LOL.

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Use large muffin pan, and reese cups with mini mallows. For some reason a lot of Paula's recipe's don't match her show. She used "peanut butter chocolate cups" on the show in large muffin cups in the oven for 30 minutes at 350 degrees. It's too bad some can't see all her shows and can only go off of online directions. Her recipes are very simple and taste wonderful. The only advice I can really give is read other reviews before trying the recipe to see some tips, advise, and hints to see if some measurements are off, or anything you might have missed from the show.