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Peanut Butter Balls

Posted By Jill On November 15, 2010 @ 10:28 pm In Desserts,Holidays | No Comments

During the holiday season I intend to stray from our path of New England recipes in order to bake the family favorites from my childhood. Peanut butter balls are a staple in my mother’s holiday baking and after a few years of my own attempts, I finally mastered this recipe. I use a melon-baller to make evenly sized balls from the dough.

Servings: 50 peanut butter balls

Fresh
   1/2 cup (1 stick) butter
   1/4 cup vegetable shortening

Pantry
   1 cup peanut butter
   1 tsp. vanilla extract
   2-½ cups confectioners’ sugar
   1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

Make dough
Melt butter and peanut butter over medium heat. Add vanilla and confectioners’ sugar and stir. Remove from heat and roll mixture into 1-1/2-inch diameter balls.

Refrigerate dough
Places balls on cookie sheet, cover with plastic wrap, and refrigerate until firm, approximately 2 hours. Make the chocolate coating. Melt chocolate and shortening together over very low heat or in a double boiler.

Coat peanut butter balls
Drop balls into melted chocolate a few at a time. Remove balls once coated, by stabbing with a toothpick. Place chocolate covered balls into miniature paper cups. Use additional drops of chocolate to cover hole left by toothpick. Refrigerate until firm.

Serve
Keep refrigerated or frozen until ready to serve.


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