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Chocolate covered peanut butter ball recipes, anyone?

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chaylizi

Tue, Jun 03 2008, 10:36 am

I am totally in love with them & haven't seen any recipes.

In the kitchen

Tue, Jun 03 2008, 10:40 am

Oh that sounds sooo yummy... I haven't heard of them before, I hope someone has a recipe!

Amital

Wed, Jun 04 2008, 10:57 am

My Grandma's recipe:

Peanut butter chocolate balls

1 stick butter (Grandma hates margarine! But shhh... I've used it. LOL

)
1 lb powdered sugar
2 C peanut butter (she insists on chunky)
3 C rice crisp cereal
12 oz milk chocolate, melted (I've used chips or melting disks--candy making supplies, parve would work but taste like it!)
(she also used 1/2 square paraffin wax with chocolate, which I don't...)

Mix butter, sugar and peanut butter, add cereal and stir until coated. Press into balls. With fork, dip into chocolate and cool on waxed paper. Refrigerate and serve! The only size marker I have is that a double batch fills a big old fashioned ice cream tub. LOL

Last edited by Amital on Wed, Jun 04 2008, 11:16 am; edited 1 time in total

In the kitchen

Wed, Jun 04 2008, 11:00 am

Im sorry, please expalin 12 (what?) milk chocolate..

Thank you so much! Smile

Amital

Wed, Jun 04 2008, 11:15 am

Ooops...ounces. embarrassed

I'll go above and edit.

In the kitchen

Wed, Jun 04 2008, 11:36 am

Thank you very much, I cant wait to try it! yummm....and milchigs just in time for Shvios Smile

OldYoung

Wed, Jun 04 2008, 12:37 pm

Here's my mother's recipe-

Peanut-Butter Balls ("Buckeye Balls")

1 1/2 c. creamy pb
1/2 c. margarine at room temp.
1 tsp. vanilla
16 oz. powdered sugar (I think that's 3 3/4 c)
1 cup choc. chips
2 Tbsp. shortening

Mix pb, marg, vanilla, and sugar to form smooth dough. Mixture should be stiff. Shape dough into balls, using 2 tsp. per ball. Place on wax paper and put in fridge.

Melt shortening and choc. When smooth pour into small bowl. Insert toothpick into a ball and dip in choc so 3/4 is coated, return, choc side down and remove pick. Repeat, keep in fridge for at least 30 minutes.

(Note from Mommy: You will have extra topping. I guess if the recipe called for less it would be hard to roll towards the end.)

chaylizi

Wed, Jun 04 2008, 2:07 pm

OldYoung wrote:

Here's my mother's recipe-

Peanut-Butter Balls ("Buckeye Balls")

are these THE famous buckeye balls that everyone in WOL town sends to every sholom zochor?

OldYoung

Wed, Jun 04 2008, 2:10 pm

I think so probably from the yigdal cookbook or something Wink

chaylizi

Wed, Jun 04 2008, 3:06 pm

gosh, I shoulda just looked there first.

happy one

Wed, Jun 04 2008, 3:25 pm

There's also a really good one in the Spice and Spirits cookbook.

chaylizi

Wed, Jun 04 2008, 3:27 pm

really? are they good?

wanderer

Wed, Jun 04 2008, 5:38 pm

I'm making cheese balls, wanna cover them with chocolate as well. I'm not sure how to cover it though. I melt chocolate, dip balls in it, and then set aside to harden? will it just roll off? Will the balls become flat on bottom?

Never did this before....

willow

Thu, Jun 05 2008, 2:33 am

This is probably an impossible request but......
does anyone have a way to make these healthy?
I absolutely love love these but I don't eat this way anymore so if I could make it healthy or healthier please let me know the secret.

OldYoung

Thu, Jun 05 2008, 9:24 am

make sure that you dip the balls when the chocolate is a good, glaze-like consistency . Like when you glaze a cake, you don't want the glaze to be too runny or it will slide off. You want it to be almost on the gooey side- I wait until it's cooled a little, but not too cool, or it will get hard. The balls themselves should be pretty firm, and if you don't use too much chocolate, they shouldn't get flat on the bottom.

Amital

Thu, Jun 05 2008, 9:35 am

willow wrote:

I'd imagine you could use other nut butters, and why not wheat germ or oatmeal instead of cereal? Or both? And if you're a carob fan...

The problem is that the main ingredients here aren't really nutritious in themselves, so you'll end up with something different, really. This is something I make for indulgence. Smile

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