These 5 ingredient Vegan Almond Butter Cups are easy to make and a delicious healthy version of the popular candy!

These 5 ingredient Vegan Almond Butter Cups are easy to make and a delicious healthy version of the popular candy! Creamy almond butter smooshed in between two layers of dark chocolate, can’t get any better than that!

This week is my son’s birthday week. He will be 6 years old, which is absolutely crazy to me. I can remember when he was Madisons size… now he smells like a boy (sweat and mud), has big boy feet and making farting noises.

Where has the time gone? I feel like it’s flown by so fast but at the same time has also taken forever to get to this point of independence.

Because it’s his birthday week and his party is this weekend I’m trying to get everything ready.

Usually we host a big party at our house, we have a theme, party games and tons of food. (cuz ya know I’m a food blogger, gotta deliver) But this year, because we have a 2 month old we are taming down a bit. And thankful he’s ok with it.

This year we are going Main Event for his birthday, which is basically like a Dave & Busters. They have bowling, games, laser tag and all kinds of fun stuff for the kids to do.

They even provide the food. All I have to do is bring a cake and decorations. That’s it! Easy Peasy. I can’t wait. Hopefully this is the best birthday ever and we can keep doing things like this in the future. It’s saved a ton of time on my part. I use to have to plan for his birthday like a month or two in advance. They were always fun, but left me exhausted afterwards. (I have Pinterest to thank for that, so many kids party ideas)

I’ll let you guys know how it went next week. Should be a fun one … I’m hoping I win at laser tag this time. (usually Mike does, but this time I mean business)

Ok, moving on to this amazing Vegan Almond Butter Cups.

Lately, nut butters have been the way to my heart. I’ve always had a love affair with peanut butter. In fact, truth be told I probably go through a 24 oz. jar by myself once a week. Although, the past couple of weeks I’ve been switching it up with almond butter and even cashew butter here and there. I don’t discriminate. 🙂

That being said, todays recipe is inspired by creamy Almond Butter! I added a few ingredients to the Almond Butter filling to make it even more dreamy and then smashed it in between to layers of dark chocolate. Pretty much, you can’t get better than that!

These Almond Butter Cups are truly amazing! They are easy to make, decadent and the perfect fix for your sweet tooth.

I topped mine with sea salt and raw almonds for a little crunch but you could totally omit it if you’d like. However you choose to top it, just choose to make it! I guarantee you’ll love them and they’ll probably be a staple in your house soon! I highly recommend making a big batch of these to freeze so you can have a sweet treat at a moments notice.

Bon Appetit friends!

Vegan Almond Butter Cups

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Author: Krista @ JoyfulHealthyEats.com
Prep Time: 30 minutes
Total Time: 30 minutes
Yield: 12 almond butter cups 1x
Category: Dessert
Method: Frozen
Cuisine: American

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These 5 ingredient Vegan Almond Butter Cups are easy to make and a delicious healthy version of the popular candy! Creamy almond butter smooshed in between two layers of dark chocolate, can’t get any better than that!

Ingredients

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For the Almond Butter Filling:

1/2 cup almond butter
1 tablespoon coconut oil, melted
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 tablespoon maple syrup

For the Chocolate Mixture:

11.5 oz. extra dark chocolate chips
1 tablespoons coconut oil, melted
24 raw almonds

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Instructions

Add cupcake liners to a cupcake/muffin tin.
To a medium bowl add almond butter, coconut oil, vanilla extract and maple syrup. Using a whisk, mix until smooth and all ingredients are combined. Set aside.
Place dark chocolate and coconut oil in a heatproof bowl set over a pot of boiling water to melt. The bottom of the bowl should not touch the water. Continue to stir until the chocolate is all melted.
Add a tablespoon of melted chocolate to each cupcake liner. Place in freezer for two minutes, until slightly frozen.
Remove from the freezer and place 1 scoop of the almond butter mixture in the center of each chocolate filled cupcake liner.
Top each filled cupcake liner with remaining chocolate. Then garnish each almond butter cup with 2 raw almonds.
Place in freezer to harden.
Remove and garnish with course sea salt. Serve
***Store in air tight container in refrigerator until ready to serve.