Gluten-Free Nut Butter Cups Recipe

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You'll Need:

• ⅓ - ½ cup Vanilla Almond Butter (chilled for 24 hours)
• 1 tablespoon golden flaxseed meal
• 1 cup dark chocolate chips

1. Stir flaxseed meal into Vanilla Almond Butter
2. Melt chocolate in a small pan over very low heat; you can use a double boiler if you wish and temper the chocolate
3. Using a small paint brust, coat the bottom and sides of a nut butter cup mold with chocolate 
4. Place mold in freezer for 10 minutes to allow chocolate to harden
5. Remove mold from freezer
6. Scoop a scant teaspoon of vanilla almond butter into each chocolate lined nut butter cup
7. Paint chocolate over the nut butter to cover and make final layer
8. Place in freezer for 10 minutes to harden
9. Remove from freezer, turn mold upside down and pop nut butter cups out of mold
10. Serve (if any left)

Yields 11 cups (depending on your mold)

Nut Butter Balls

You'll Need:

• ½ cup Vanilla Almond Butter
• 2 tablespoons (or more) golden flaxseed meal
• 1 cup dark chocolate chips
• celtic sea salt

1. Add flaxmeal to vanilla almond butter to make it easier to handle
2. Roll Vanilla Almond Butter into balls
3. Melt chocolate in a small pan over very low heat; you can use a double boiler if you wish and temper the chocolate
4. Drop balls into a pot of melted chocolate and take out with tongs, laying on a piece of parchment paper
5. Allow to harden
6. Sprinkle with salt
7. Serve