Earth Day Peanut Butter Cups – these vegan chocolates a tasty and colorfully fun way to celebrate Earth Day, while doing what we can to keep our planet healthy and vibrantly colorful! Kid friendly recipe!

recipe originally published April 22, 2011

Earth Day Peanut Butter Cups

Happy Earth Day!

I like to think that many of us think of Earth Day as every day, and we simply use Earth Day itself to raise awareness.

The Earth Day Network has a goal of A Billion Acts of Green, and it got me thinking of what I can do above and beyond what I already do, today and ongoing.

I am happy to live in an area where recycling has always been the norm. Back in college I was vacationing in… three southern states, and remember being shocked at the lack of recycling – even of the basics like aluminum cans and newspaper. It’s a huge eye opener, and I shudder to think one day we will have a real life Idiocracy on our hands, with mountains of landfill.

I could go on and on about how the foreshadowing of Idiocracy is frightening, but that is a whole other blog…

Easy Kid Friendly Recipe Hack:

Step One: Buy dairy free / vegan friendly peanut butter cups, like our favorites here.

Step Two: Frost with the blue and green colors, as usual.

Earth Day Pledges:

walking to meet my sister for dinner this evening.

spending very little time on the computer today, television will be off.

spend much of my time outdoors to take advantage of natural light and conserve our electricity.

continue planning our annual vegetable garden – I hope to be planting soon.

beneficial everyday habits:

bring reusable bags to the grocery store.

eat vegan (anyone can do it, even Meatless Monday helps a great deal!).

reducing our paper product consumption, using cloth towels, etcetera.

make vegan chocolate peanut butter cups!

Step By Step Vegan Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups

first layer chocolate, all the way up the sides:

second layer peanut butter, almost to edges:

third layer, white chocolate covering completely:

unwrapped:

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about Kristina:

Kristina is spabettie! She discovered a love of cooking at an early age, and founded spabettie in 2010 to share vegan recipes. As the sole recipe developer and photographer, Kristina turned her culinary training into sharing flavorful and vibrant vegan food! She loves dachshunds, karaoke, drums, and travel.

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