Peanut Butter Balls V

Name: Peanut Butter Balls V
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 100
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 118 milliliters butter, softened; 237 milliliters confectioners sugar; 473 milliliters creamy peanut butter; 591 milliliters graham cracker crumbs; 473 milliliters chopped pecans; 0 teaspoons salt; 473 milliliters semisweet chocolate chips; 2 Tbsps shortening; 2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Peanut Butter Balls V requires roughly 45 minutes from start to finish. One portion of this dish contains around 2g of protein, 7g of fat, and a total of 89 calories. This recipe serves 100. This recipe covers 2% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. A mixture of butter, semisweet chocolate chips, vanillan extract, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so scrumptious.

Instructions

Cream together the butter, vanilla, salt and peanut butter. Stir in 2 cups of the confectioners' sugar, nuts and all but 1/2 cup of the graham cracker crumbs.

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Graham Cracker Crumbs

Powdered Sugar

Peanut Butter

Vanilla

Butter

Cream

Nuts

Salt

Add the last 1/2 cup of graham cracker crumbs only if needed; otherwise it may be difficult to mold the balls.

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Graham Cracker Crumbs

Form the mixture by hand into 1 inch balls.

Roll each ball in the remaining cup of confectioners' sugar. Set the balls in a single layer on a cookie sheet and refrigerate until firm. At this point the cookies may be dipped in melted chocolate or they can be left plain. Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator.

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Powdered Sugar

Chocolate

Roll

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Baking Sheet

To Dip Balls In Chocolate: In the top half of a double boiler; melt the chocolate chips and shortening just until the chips are melted.

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Chocolate Chips

Shortening

Chocolate

French Fries

Dip

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Double Boiler

Remove from heat but leave over hot water. Insert a toothpick into the chilled balls and dip into the melted chocolate until coated. Set on waxed paper until hardened.

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Chocolate

Water