Celebrate the Day of the Dead with these festive Día de Muertos Chocolate Hats! A dark chocolate peanut butter cup dressed up with sprinkles and sugar skulls.
Melt your chocolate in a slow cooker or in the microwave.
Add 1 tablespoon of melted chocolate to each of the 6 molds in the 3-inch mold.
Set in the fridge until solid.
In the smaller mold, fill 6 molds with melted chocolate.
Place in the fridge for 8-10 minutes or until the edges of the cups are solid but the middle is still melted.
Pour out the middle melted chocolate. I put this chocolate back in the slow cooker so I don't waste it.
Set back in the fridge until solid.
While the cups are solidifying, make the peanut butter filling.
Make Peanut Butter Filling
Combine the peanut butter, powdered sugar, butter, and salt.
Mix until smooth.
Place in a piping bag or zip top bag or use a spoon to fill.
Fill the Hats
Remove the cup molds from the fridge, add 1 tablespoon peanut butter filling, or enough to fill the dup about 80 %.
Pour melted chocolate over the peanut butter filling to fill the entire cup. Make sure that the peanut butter filling doesn't go to the edges or the cups won't have solid chocolate walls.
Place back in the fridge to solidify.
Once these are done, remove the cups and the hat brims from the molds.
Don't spray the molds with nonstick spray, the chocolate shapes will pop out without any trouble.
I keep my chocolate in a bowl in my crockpot with a little bit of water on low. This keeps me from having to microwave it multiple times to make the shapes.
Be careful not to get any water in your melted chocolate or it will seize up and turn grainy.
You can feel free to fill the cups with a different filling if you don't want peanut butter. Or you can make the "cups" solid chocolate. Much like the solid chocolate eggs or bunnies during Easter.
Try to hold the hats from the underside or on the edges as the heat from your fingers can leave fingerprints or dull spots on your hats.