Peanut Butter Balls – A Beautiful Mess

These Chocolate Peanut Butter Balls (aka Buckeye Balls) are delicious and easy to make. The chocolate flavor and creamy peanut butter make the perfect fall or Christmas dessert recipe. Start a new tradition by making this peanut butter balls recipe every year. My kids love to help. Is anyone ready to make some treats?

Related: Peanut Butter Blossom Cookies, Peanut Butter Bars, Peanut Butter Fudge, Chocolate Covered Strawberries.

material

• Peanut butter – You can use creamy or crunchy peanut butter. I used crunchy.
• Softened butter – Use salted butter.
• Powdered sugar – For sweetness and texture, which makes the peanut butter balls melt in your mouth.
• Graham cracker crumbs – You can also use cookie crumbs.
• milk
• Vanilla extract
• salt
• Melting Chocolate – You can use any type of chocolate that melts: dark, milk, white, etc. I used Ghirardelli.

This recipe is so decadent and indulgent. Don’t forget to add in the vanilla extract and a pinch of salt – it really makes a difference. I used dark chocolate and it was delicious.

How to make peanut butter balls

Combine the peanut butter and softened butter in a stand mixer (or bowl) and beat on medium speed until smooth.

While mixing batter on medium speed, slowly add powdered sugar, graham cracker crumbs, milk, and vanilla extract to peanut butter mixture.

Roll the dough into balls and place on baking paper. Freeze the balls for at least 10 minutes before moving on to the chocolate coating.

Melt chocolate in microwave in 30 second intervals, stirring between each interval. Once chocolate is completely melted, dip.

Dip each ball halfway into chocolate and shake over a bowl to remove excess chocolate. Place on a baking sheet or cooling rack lined with baking paper to set. Once each half is set, dip the remaining half into chocolate, being careful to ensure all parts of the ball are covered in chocolate.

Finally, use a spoon to drizzle chocolate on top of each ball to create a textured design. Optionally, you can also add festive sprinkles to your peanut butter balls to match any holiday or occasion.

This recipe makes 20-25 balls depending on size, if you’re a perfectionist you can use a dough scoop to measure out each ball, I personally like to measure by eye.

Tips on how to make it

• If you don’t have any melting chocolate on hand, you can also melt some chocolate chips or candy bars to use as the chocolate coating.
• You can substitute any flavored cookie crumbs for the graham cracker crumbs. Choose peanut butter cookies for an extra delicious peanut butter flavor — they taste just like Reese’s peanut butter cups — or chocolate cookies for a different flavor.
• If you don’t have a microwave, Double boiler Melt the chocolate, Electric crucible.
• If you want to soak the whole ball at once, Spiral Dipping Tool Or a fork.
• Don’t like peanut butter? You can use any kind of nut butter in this recipe, including almond butter, cashew butter, or cookie butter.
• If you’re celebrating a holiday, add festive sprinkles.

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