Your new favorite sweet potato recipe, this side dish is outstanding.
| Prep Time: | 30 mins |
| Cook Time: | 5 mins |
| Additional Time: | 3 hrs |
| Total Time: | 3 hrs 35 mins |
| Servings: | 48 |
| Yield: | 4 dozen |
Ingredients
- 2 ¼ cups creamy peanut butter
- ½ cup butter
- 4 cups confectioners’ sugar
- 3 cups crisp rice cereal
- 2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
Instructions
- Melt peanut butter and butter in saucepan over low heat, stirring often.
- Mix crisp rice cereal and confectioners’ sugar in a large bowl until all well combined. Pour melted peanut butter mixture over top and stir until thoroughly blended; mixture will still appear crumbly but will easily form into balls.
- Form into 1-inch diameter (or smaller) balls and place onto parchment-lined cookie sheets. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate until firm, 3 hours to overnight.
- When ready to coat the balls, melt chocolate chips in double boiler. Keep over the lowest heat to keep melted.
- Place a peanut butter ball into the melted chocolate. Use two forks to roll it around until fully coated. Carefully remove it, letting any excess chocolate drip back into the pot, and place it on a wire rack set over a piece of parchment paper. Repeat to coat remaining balls.
- Refrigerate coated peanut butter balls until completely firm before serving.
- ReneePaj
- Based on reviews that this dough was too dry, we’ve added an extra 1/4 cup peanut butter to the recipe here and also in the video.
Reviews
This is a great easy recipe to make with young children. Like other reviewers, I did find the peanut butter taste to be a bit muted by sweetness. This may be dependent on what kind of peanut butter you use. Some peanut butters have more sugar in them than others. I also think this recipe could benefit from the addition of salt to the peanut butter/krispy mixture to help balance the sweetness. The insides have a lightness and nice crunch thanks to the rice krispies, different from the heaviness of most peanut butter balls.
Not overly sweet, with a crunch. Just like my grandmother used to make.
Insanely rich and heavy and sweet. My family is going through them very slowly because eating one is like a whole meal and makes you feel at risk for diabetes. I basically can’t eat them and wish I had read more reviews before showing up to Christmas with them. Notice how a lot of the “positive” reviews have actually completely changed the recipe? You should not follow the recipe as written.
I’ve been making these for 40 years however used crushed graham crackers instead of rice cereal. This year – going gluten free, so using crunchy peanut butter and no filler. CROCKPOT for melting. I have a small dip crockpot and it is the easiest way to go. Did the double boiler maker for years, messy, and dangerous. Also, add a tablespoon of shortening to harden the chocolate faster and give it a pretty sheen. Favorite of all my family and friends, so make around 200 every year.
yes im gluten intolerance switch rice crispy for oats.big hit
Delicious! I used only 1 cup of confectioners’ sugar and these were perfect. Not too sweet, just right.
Very rich!! Work fast to decorate after dipping in chocolate so chocolate doesn’t get hard on you. Good Christmas treat!!!
Delicious! I am really glad I didn’t double the recipe. It made about 70 one inch balls. The texture is light and crunchy. The flavors are perfect. This is a definite keeper. Thank you!
These are a tad on the sweet side as you can only eat one or two at a shot, but they quickly became a family favorite this past Christmas. The taste and texture run similar to Lil Debbie Nutty Bars.
My oldest son loved these.
I made it to a tee. Couldn’t put in ball form for the life of me so I just made it bar style, and topped with chocolate. Perfect. Less chocolate which seems better.
Instead of melting chocolate, I saw these peanutbutter balls with a Hershey kiss in the middle.
I made this with some adjustments to the ingredients as others have suggested but the chocolate dipping is much easier if you use a tooth pick and that becomes the way to serve them.
They of course taste delicious because peanut butter and chocolate are always great together but this recipe in particular is a little dry. No one that ate them seemed to notice, though, except for me so it might just be my picky critique. They were a big hit either way!
also used white chocolate too ,its really good
I used 2 cups conf sugar – 1 tsp vanilla – 2 cups rice chex cereal. Rolled in 1 inch balls and dipped
I made these for a company event and everyone raved about them. Followed the recipe exactly and kept them in the fridge for a few hours before dipping. My hubby and kids taste tested them and asked if I could add them to the Christmas baking repertoire. Thumbs up!
Community favorite! I make them for our social get togethers. Always quick to be eaten up! Kids and grand kids love these in the Christmas hamper! Easy to make with the kids!
Instead of making balls, I rolled mine into tubes with parchment paper and froze them. Then I took the parchment paper off and cut them into bite size pieces, and spread the tops with chocolate.
WAY too much powdered sugar. We had a hard time rolling them into balls even after adding another half cup of peanut butter and 2T of butter. The finished product was too powdery and lacked the rich texture I was looking for.
These were delish and the person i made it for absolutely LOVED them!! A stand up mixer would have been a great way to mix the ingredients as it was a little hard with just a wooden spoon. But still loved this dessert!! It’s a keeper!!