Vegan Cacao-Peanut Butter Cups

Makes 13 cups

Ingredients:

• 3 Tbsp. cacao powder
• ¾ cup coconut manna
• ½ cup almond meal
• 13 tsp. (just over ¼ cup) peanut butter or SunButter Sunflower Butter
• 3 Tbsp. maple syrup
• Mini paper baking cups

Instructions:

1. In a medium-sized sauce pan, stir in coconut manna, cacao powder, almond meal and maple syrup.
2. Taste chocolate mixture, and add more cacao powder for a richer flavor or more maple syrup for sweeter flavor.
3. Spoon a teaspoon of chocolate into baking cups, filling 1/3 of the way. (Reserve half of chocolate mixture for top layer of candy.) Freeze for 5 minutes.
4. Remove candy from freezer. Add 1 teaspoon peanut butter to each cup, then pour remaining chocolate mixture over peanut butter to fill cups.
5. Freeze candy for 15 minutes, then serve.