This might be the easiest chocolate candy ever! Chocolate Peanut clusters are the easiest thing ever. Starting with high-quality chocolate, you can customize your flavors to make the best chocolate candies that make you want to lick the bowl when you're done with your creation.
Homemade Chocolate Candy
This is a chocolate bark with a different shape.
The idea of making your own chocolate bar is so appealing in my opinion, and if you, like me, thought for years that certain flavors or candy could only be achieved by huge companies with complicated, expensive machinery, the excitement and surprise after the first bite is multiplied by a gazillion.
Oh, they don't look as flawless or with tiny ridges in the surface, or have a nice wavy pattern or shiny coating since I didn't template my chocolate or whatever, but they taste superb and you know exactly what the ingredient list is. Which is always a big plus.
I love peanuts with chocolate. Yeah, who doesn't right? Peanut butter and chocolate, a flavor combination that can make me eat a lot and not get sick by all the sweetness, one flavor I actually crave, though I tend to pair with dark chocolate mostly, like these chocolate peanut fudge squares, snickerdoodle bites or the killer brownies.
I am a huge fan of dark, semi-sweet or bittersweet chocolate. Each type contains varying amounts of cocoa butter to change the taste.
But today we're having a Chocolate Party, and the extra ingredient is chocolate.
That means chocolate with chocolate, and I opted for all three of them, white, milk and bittersweet. Last month we paired it with coconut, and I made the coconut white chocolate truffles.
There is no shortage of recipes waiting to be made, but this one was waiting since 1987.
I'm not kidding, the magazine, along with a pile of others, was given to me at that time by a college friend's father who was about to throw them away, and I have it bookmarked since then. So don't ask my age. Do your own math.
Custom Chocolate Candies
The mix of chocolates is up to you. I increased the dark chocolate and decreased the white, to make it less sweet, and it turned out so great tasting. Very similar to a chocolate peanut bar we have here, but better since I used good chocolate.
Other recipes you might like:
Double Chocolate Cookie Bark
Easy 2-ingredient White Chocolate Fudge
Salted Chocolate Marshmallow Fudge
Coconut Dulce de Leche Fudge Truffles
Homemade Vanilla Marshmallows
Fudgy Chocolate Mint Brownies
Chocolate Peanut Clusters
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 30
- Total Time: 40 minutes
- Yield: 20 clusters 1x
- Category: Desserts
- Method: Microwave
- Cuisine: American
Description
So easy to make and to eat! These Chocolate Peanut Clusters have three kinds of chocolate and lots of salted peanuts. Great recipe to make with kids!
Ingredients
- 7.5 oz (220g) white chocolate
- 7.5 oz (220g) bittersweet chocolate
- 3 oz (85g) milk chocolate
- 1 ¾ cup (200g) roasted peanuts
Instructions
- Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.
- Melt all three chocolate together in the microwave, stirring every 30 seconds, or in a bowl over water, being careful the chocolate doesn't touch the water.
- Add peanuts and mix very well, until it´s all coated. Drop by tablespoons onto prepared sheets. Let harden at room tº, which will take a few hours at least, or in the refrigerator.
- Keep refrigerated, well covered.
Notes
The better the chocolates you use, the better the final result. If you want to temper your chocolate here's a link.
Use any nut you like. Hazelnuts go especially well with chocolate.
Keywords: Chocolate peanut clusters, peanut cluster candy, chocolate peanut cluster recipe
Adapted from Bon Appetit
Would love to make these for Christmas gifts and put into cute treat bags or boxes but what about the "keep refrigerated" instruction?
Tina
Since it's chocolate, it depends on the temp where you store it. If you put it in a cool place they will keep fine. Go to this link, http://hipfoodiemom.com/2013/02/14/diy-chocolate-two-ways-happy-valentines-day/ ,where my friend Alice used paper liners which made them easier to transport!
Perfect ~ love the liners tip! Thanks so much and thanks for such a prompt reply. Can't wait to make these clusters ~ I know my husband will go nuts (no pun intended) over them! 🙂
so glad you're making them!
Hi Paula,
I made these the other night and they turned out great! Really easy and tasty.
I hope things are going better since the flood.
Christine
I would assume that the mixture of dark chocolate and white chocolate will produce milk chocolate... Have to try this recipe to see if this is true 😀
i could munch on clusters every day. Love your triple version! Beautiful and delicious Paula!
These look great- So glad to be posting with your through the chocolate party 🙂
These clusters look so good, Paula! Love the triple chocolate!
You pull up more old recipes to resurrect, always posting something from an old Gourmet magazine or Bon Appetit. I love that about your Post. Sometimes I think we all (meaning chefs who write cookbooks and we food bloggers) are trying too hard to re-invent the wheel. Some of the recipe concoctions are pretty far out. There is nothing not to like about these heavenly clusters except what they will do to my hips.
Triple chocolate!!! You're killing me! Can I place an order for box? 🙂
meravigliosi!! grazie per la ricetta
What delicious nut clusters!
Paula,
oh my! I honestly love this! I too love chocolate and peanuts together. . perfect pairing. . love that you used 3 kinds of chocolate here. . I love everything about chocolate. . and will take it in any shape or form but especially LOVE peanut clusters! I have all of the ingredients at home now. i'm making these!!
I think this would be good with any nuts! Yours are so pretty, too! ~ David
Who doesn't love peanut clusters and with triple chocolate oh...yes! Wonderful pictures and great recipe.
Paula, what a truly decadent "triple chocolate treat" - these Clusters look delightful. I particularly like the way you arranged them on the cake stand! Very nice presentation indeed!
P.S.: I am looking forward to your Focaccia with the roasted Grapes.