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Fluffernutter Chocolate Peanut Clusters

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Ingredients Method Notes

Ingredients
  

  • 2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
  • 1 1/2 cups milk chocolate chips
  • 2 cups salted roasted peanuts (see Note)
  • 2 cups small marshmallow pieces
  • flaky sea salt, for sprinkling

Method
 

  1. First, set up all the parchment cups on a sheet pan so they are ready to go. You won’t have time to do this after the chocolate gets melting!
  2. As you cut the marshmallows into small pieces, try to keep them separated and don’t allow them to all clump and stick together. Use arrowroot powder or powdered sugar to coat them, and then roll the marshmallow pieces around in a sieve to knock off any extra starch. This recipe uses around half of a batch of my marshmallow recipe. Alternatively, you can use store-bought mini-marshmallows.
  3. Melt all the chocolate chips together in a double boiler. I use a glass bowl fitted over a small saucepan. Heat the chocolate gently, stirring often, until the chips are almost fully melted. Take the bowl off the heat and allow the chips to finish melting with the residual heat.
  4. THIS IS IMPORTANT: First, stir in the peanuts. They will help to cool the chocolate. If you add the marshmallows right away they will melt and disintegrate into the chocolate. Once the peanuts are stirred in, fold in the marshmallows.
  5. Now work quickly! Use a spring-loaded scoop or a regular spoon to drop spoonfuls of the mixture into the parchment cups, in heaping tablespoonfuls. The chocolate will cool fast and set up quickly. Unlike other melted chocolate-type treats, you can’t re-melt this over the double boiler or the mallows will melt too.
  6. Sprinkle the tops of the clusters with the sea salt before the chocolate hardens.
  7. Let the fluffernutter chocolate peanut clusters cool and set on the counter for several hours, and then store in an air-tight container.

Notes

Note: You must use roasted and salted peanuts. Make sure to double check the ingredients on any dry roasted peanut brands-- some are made with savory spices like onions, which you don't want. Also, do not use peanuts with the skins.