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Dairy Free Strawberry Chocolate SunButter Cups

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These fun layered Strawberry Chocolate SunButter Cups are peanut free and dairy free! This dairy free candy has a strawberry white chocolate layer on the bottom with SunButter filling and a layer of allergy friendly chocolate on top. These are also gluten free and tree nut free!

photo collage of strawberry chocolate  peanut butter cups.

Our longtime readers can attest that we have a love of freeze dried strawberries and how delicious they are mixed with dairy free chocolate. Added to SunButter cups, it adds a fruity PB&J taste and a beautiful layered look!

These SunButter cups are a great alternative to peanut butter cups and are perfect for spring and summer with real strawberry flavor. If you’re a fan of Reese’s peanut butter cups but have food allergies, you’ll love these ones.

These homemade chocolates aren’t too hard to make and you can switch up the ingredients a bit for different variations. We also included options for making these lower in sugar as well.

Allergy notes:

  1. Dairy free
  2. Gluten free
  3. Peanut free
  4. Tree nut free
  5. Vegan
overhead photo of peanut free chocolate cups on a marble surface.

How to make strawberry chocolate SunButter cups

Here are the steps to make these peanut free “peanut butter” cups. This is just an overview of the steps, the full recipe card is at the end of the post.

  1. Powder the freeze dried strawberries (either with a food processor or a mortar and pestle).
  2. Sift out the large pieces of strawberry to leave a fine strawberry powder. Set aside.
  3. Melt the white chocolate.
  4. Mix the strawberry powder with the white chocolate and scoop about 1-2 teaspoons into the bottom of a silicone mini muffin pan. Let the strawberry chocolate set at room temperature.
  5. While the strawberry chocolate sets, mix the SunButter filling by creaming together the SunButter, dairy free butter, powdered sugar, and vanilla. It will create a thick dough.
  6. Once the strawberry chocolate is set, form the SunButter dough into discs that are slightly smaller than the diameter of the muffin cups. We made our SunButter discs a little bit thin, but you can make these as thick as you’d like it you want more filling than we have in the photos.
  7. Place the SunButter discs on the strawberry white chocolate, then top with the melted semi-sweet or rice milk chocolate.
  8. Allow to set at room temperature until firm, then remove from the silicone pan and store in an airtight container at room temperature.
tall stack of chocolate sunbutter cups on parchment paper.

Ingredient notes

SunButter: we used the SunButter brand creamy SunButter in this recipe, but if you want a bit of crunch, you can use the crunchy SunButter for some added texture (or a mix of crunchy and creamy).

Freeze dried strawberries: there are a lot of different brands of freeze dried strawberries, just look for brands that are not made in facilities with your allergens since some brands are processed in facilities with nuts, dairy, etc. We used a local store brand for our freeze dried strawberries.

Allergy friendly chocolate:

Dairy Free white chocolate options:

1 strawberry sunbutter cup with bite taken.

Flavor variations

If you want to have more of a PB&J vibe, use the strawberry white chocolate on both the bottom and top of the SunButter cups. You’ll just need to double the strawberry white chocolate in this recipe.

Or if you’re a fan of white chocolate, you can do a top layer of white chocolate instead of semi-sweet chocolate, or flip it and have the strawberry layer on top and the chocolate or white chocolate layer on the bottom.

This also works with other types of freeze dried fruit besides strawberry. We’ve made some peach mango white chocolate that would also be delicious in this recipe. Have some fun experimenting with different fruits!

How to make these SunButter cups low sugar

If you want to make these strawberry SunButter cups low in sugar, you can use sugar free chocolate in this recipe and the no sugar added SunButter.

stack of chocolate peanut butter cup alternatives with strawberry white chocolate on parchment paper.

These swaps won’t make these completely sugar free, but rather low in sugar. The only obstacle to making this recipe low sugar this is that I haven’t yet found a sugar free white chocolate that is allergy friendly or dairy free.

There are some options for sugar free semi-sweet chocolate (such as Bake Believe), but no dairy free white chocolate yet. You can create these with a sugar free chocolate layer and the regular strawberry white chocolate layer to keep these dairy free and slightly lower in sugar.

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Dairy Free Strawberry Chocolate SunButter Cups

These fun layered Strawberry Chocolate SunButter Cups are peanut free and dairy free! This dairy free candy has a strawberry white chocolate layer on the bottom with SunButter filling and a layer of allergy friendly chocolate on top. These are also gluten free and tree nut free!
Dairy free, vegan, gluten free; Free of: peanuts, tree nuts, soy, eggs
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Course: Candy
Cuisine: American
Keyword: dairy free peanut butter cups, sunbutter cups
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Set/chill time: 45 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour
Servings: 8 pieces
Calories: 197kcal

Ingredients

Instructions

  • Using a food processor or a mortar and pestle, grind the freeze dried strawberries into powder.
  • Sift the strawberry powder to remove any large pieces. Set aside.
  • Melt the dairy free white chocolate either in the microwave (at 30 second intervals) or in a double boiler.
  • Mix 1-1/2 teaspoons strawberry powder into the white chocolate and scoop about 1-2 teaspoons of the strawberry white chocolate into the bottom of a silicone mini muffin pan.
  • Allow the strawberry chocolate to set up either at room temperature or in the fridge.
  • While the bottom layer is setting up, mix the SunButter, dairy free butter, powdered sugar, and vanilla until a thick dough forms.
  • Form discs with the SunButter mixture (as thick or as thin as you like), and place on the strawberry chocolate.
  • Melt the semi-sweet or dairy free rice milk chocolate and pour over the SunButter discs.
  • Allow to set up at room temperature or in the fridge. Store at room temperature in an airtight container.

Nutrition

Calories: 197kcal | Carbohydrates: 17g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 13g | Saturated Fat: 6g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1g | Trans Fat: 1g | Sodium: 20mg | Potassium: 7mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 11g | Vitamin A: 4IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 25mg | Iron: 1mg
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