Chocolate Dipped Krispies Peanut Butter Balls

Rita~'s Note:

These are lighter then the ones without the Rice Krispies. I got the recipe from the "Classic Holiday Cooking" cook book. You can shape into eggs for Easter!

• Total Time: 25 mins
• Prep Time: 20 mins
• Cook Time: 5 mins

Ingredients:

Yield: 100 balls

• 1/2 cup butter or 1/2 cup margarine
• 2 cups chunky peanut butter
• 1 teaspoon vanilla (optional)
• 1 lb powdered sugar
• 3 cups rice, krispies

Chocolate Dip

• 2 ounces paraffin wax or 2 ounces shortening
• 1 (24 ounce) package chocolate chips (using 12 ounces for large balls or 24 ounces for small one)

Directions:

1. Melt butter and while hot, stir in peanut butter.
2. Mix well and add vanilla, powdered sugar and Rice Krispies.
3. Work in with hands until it will form balls.
4. If using paraffin shred on a box grater then add to the chocolate in a double boil and heat till melted and combined.
5. Dip into melted chocolate and paraffin or shortening with toothpick.
6. Cool on waxed paper.

Reviews

[Mysterygirl]

I used parafin to make these. They turned out really nice. It's a bit of work, but what the heck - it's Christmas. :)

[Rita~]

Instead of paraffin you can use shortening.

[kda949]

Yummy! Yummy! Yummy! But Messy! Messy! Messy to make! I chose this recipe over the other peanut butter balls because it used less butter and more peanut butter. I too used just 2 cups of powdered sugar and it was PLENTY!! Still very sweet! One thing I did that has not been mentioned is that I chilled the peanut butter mixture before shaping it into balls - about 10 mins in the fridge, and once they were shaped into balls I threw them into the freezer for 5 mins before dipping them in the chocolate. I thought it was just way too sticky and messy to work with at room temp. Very Yummy!! Glad I found this recipe.