Dessert: Chocolate Covered Peanut Butter Balls

[SavannahDare]

This is the recipe I use. It may help to mention that after rolling the pnut butter mixture into balls, stick a toothpick in each one before putting in the fridge. That way you can easily dip each ball in the chocolate without messing your fingers, and the chocolate completely covers the ball smoothly. After the chocolate is set, the toothpicks can easily be removed without damaging the balls.

[BamaGoose]

	Quote:	SavannahDare
	This is the recipe I use. It may help to mention that after rolling the pnut butter mixture into balls, stick a toothpick in each one before putting in the fridge. That way you can easily dip each ball in the chocolate without messing your fingers, and the chocolate completely covers the ball smoothly. After the chocolate is set, the toothpicks can easily be removed without damaging the balls.

Thanks for the mentioned toothpicks. I told my wife to try this out the next time. She made these, while great she really had a mess by dipping the balls in the chocolate by hand.

She was surprising me with the dessert while we are here at Perdido for vacation through Jan 4. The first thing I said to her when I saw she was making them is why aren't you using toothpicks? Needless to say I got on her bad side quickly. I made up for it by getting a sugar drunk for the next 4 hours while consuming many chocolate covered peanut butter balls.

[bayoutider]

Yep the toothpicks work wonders. I make my mother's buttercream candy most years but didnt this year.

[aden]

Had these made with vanilla wafers instead of graham crackers and they were very good,will try with grahams.

[bayoutider]

	Quote:	aden
	Had these made with vanilla wafers instead of graham crackers and they were very good,will try with grahams.

I wonder if using the cookie part of Oreo would be too much chocolate?

[aden]

There is no such thing as too much chocolate!

[aprovo]

	Quote:	bayoutider
	I wonder if using the cookie part of Oreo would be too much chocolate?

not sure about Oreos in Chocolate Covered Peanut Butter Balls, but you can make Oreo Balls:

1 pkg. (8 oz.) cream cheese, softened
4 cups crushed Oreo® cookies (1lb 2oz. Pkg - any flavor except double stuffed.) (I used the food processor to crush)
2 cups chocolate baking chips plus 1 T. shortening or chocolate bark (I have found that chocolate bark works better. It creates a harder coating, if you use the bark don’t use the shortening)

On high speed of an electric mixer, beat cream cheese until light and fluffy. Add cookies and beat until well combined. Refrigerate 2 hours until chilled enough to roll.

Roll dough into 1" balls. Over a double boiler, melt chips and shortening until smooth (or chocolate bark without shortening). Dip balls into mixture and thoroughly coat. Place on wax paper to harden. Store in refrigerator.

I put mine in the freezer just to harden them faster, and then moved to the refrigerator. The sooner they harden the sooner you can start eating..

[MrsNashTIDE]

	Quote:	aden
	There is no such thing as too much chocolate!

AMEN!!!