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Peanut Butter Balls
And now it's time for the second of the four holiday cookies I promised you. These are probably the easiest of the bunch, as they are not even baked. These have been a holiday tradition in my family for as long as I can remember, and are almost always gobbled up first among the cookies. That may also be because they're nice and bite-sized! We have used various recipes over the years, some including graham crackers, but these seem to be the best.
Peanut Butter Balls
Ingredients
Ingredients
- For the balls:
- 1 cup smooth peanut butter
- 2 cups powered sugar
- 1 Tablespoon unsalted butter, melted
- For the topping:
- 2 cups (1 package) semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 2 cups (1 package, may be slightly less than 2 cups) butterscotch chips
- Optional: 1 Tablespoon parafin wax
- Mix together the peanut butter, powdered sugar, and butter until well blended. You may have to get in there with your hands! After it's well blended, take small pieces and roll them into balls. Set out on parchment paper (or wax paper).
- After those are done, mix together the chocolate chips and butterscotch chips in a microwavable bowl. Heat in 1 minute increments, stirring in between each minute. As they get more melted, just do 30 second increments so you don't overdo it. The parafin wax makes the chocolate runnier if you want to dip the balls completely (which I never have any luck with!). However, I usually just take a spoon and drip some chocolate on the top of each one. You also can test out how much of all of those chips you actually need, because I always tend to have leftover chocolate. You'll need to let these sit for a while, maybe an hour or two, to let the chocolate harden. But don't worry, it won't be too hard. They will be soft and delicious!
Peanut butter balls surrounded by some of the unglazed pumpkin cookies. Note these are not the amount of balls you would get doing the above recipe. You'd have about twice as many, depending on what size you make them. I halved it this time around.
After dousing the balls in chocolate. What to do with any leftover chocolate? I used it to cover the tops of some of the pumpkin cookies I ran out of glaze for, and was told it was delicious. You can also use the extra chocolate to make chocolate-covered pretzels or peanut clusters.
Mmmmmmmmm......
These are super easy, though not for those who don't like to get their hands a little sticky!
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The other day, I was at the grocery store in the baking aisle, one of my usual haunts, and saw the Reese's Peanut Butter Chips. For all my love of Reese's, do you know, I'd never actually tried their peanut butter chips? So I bought them,...
- Chocolate Peanut Butter Rice Krispie Treats
Today I bring you a rice krispie treat that in my family has become something of a tradition for long road trips. While these treats are good on their own, when they've been sitting in the back of the car getting heated up by the sun as you drive,...
- Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
These cookies are a staple of mine that I bust out whenever I feel like a quick batch of cookies. Except that I always forget that they're not necessarily as quick as you'd like, because you do have to refrigerate the dough for 1-3 hours. Details,...
- Oreo Truffles
So, much like my peanut butter balls, I'm lying when I say these are from the oven. But they are a dessert-y thing, so whatevs. I was making these in an attempt to make something football-related for a Super Bowl get together I was going to, and after...
- Soft Pumpkin Cookies
As noted in my previous post, I made up a bunch of cookies yesterday for the holiday season. These are not the first I made out of the bunch, but a friend of mine said she wanted the recipe so I'm writing this one up first! So, I have a love affair...