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Christmas Light Peanut Butter Balls

Peanut Butter Ball Recipe

Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: peanut butter balls
Prep Time: 2 hours
Total Time: 2 hours
Servings: 55 peanut butter balls
Calories: 139kcal
Author: Kara @I Scream for Buttercream
Christmas Light Peanut Butter Balls are the perfect holiday treat. Roll the peanut butter ball mixture into the shape of Christmas lights and dunk into colorful melted candy melts to get a cute Christmas treat, or just make regular peanut butter balls and dunk in melted semi-sweet or white chocolate.
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Ingredients

  • 2 cups creamy peanut butter
  • 4 cups confectioners sugar
  • ½ cup softened butter
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 12 oz semi-sweet chocolate or white chocolate (melted)

Instructions

  • Mix the peanut butter, confectioners sugar, butter and vanilla extract until well combined.
  • Chill for at least an hour.

For peanut butter balls:

  • Use about a tablespoon of the mixture and roll into ball. Continue until all the mixture is used. Chill in the freezer, then dunk into melted semi-sweet or white chocolate. Chill in the fridge until firm.

For peanut butter Christmas lights:

  • Use about a tablespoon of the mixture and roll into a Christmas light shape. Chill in the freezer until firm. Dunk into different colored melted candy melts and let firm up. Dunk a mini Reese's cup into melted green candy melts and chill to let it firm up. Cut in half. Attach half a mini Reese's cup to the bottom of the Christmas light. Add the lights to a pretty board with piped lines to replicate the 'wires'.  
    See the blog post for the full tutorial here:  https://iscreamforbuttercream.com/christmas-light-peanut-butter-balls/

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Notes

Notes: This recipe makes A LOT! It makes about 52 peanut butter ball Christmas lights, so if you make them into just peanut butter balls, it'll make even more. FEEL FREE TO MAKE HALF THIS RECIPE IF YOU DON'T NEED THAT MANY.

Nutrition

Calories: 139kcal | Carbohydrates: 13g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 8g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Cholesterol: 4mg | Sodium: 58mg | Potassium: 95mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 11g | Vitamin A: 55IU | Calcium: 8mg | Iron: 0.6mg