Chocolate Covered Peanut Butter Balls

Time

prep 0:30      

Ingredients

Ingredients

1 cup butter or
margarine
1-1/4 cup peanut butter, smooth or
chunky
1 lb. box powdered sugar
3-1/2 cup Rice Krispies
6 oz. chocolate chips
1/2 lg. Hershey bar, broken up
1 square parafin, shaved

Instructions

Melt butter in a heavy 2 qt. saucepan over low heat. Add peanut butter, stir until well blended. Remove from heat. Combine sugar and Rice Krispies in a large bowl. Pour hot peanut butter mixture over all. Mix thoroughly using hands (be very careful, mixture will be hot). Shape into 1-inch balls. Place on wax paper lined cookie sheets. Cover and refrigerate 1 hour. Combine chocolate chips, Hershey Bar, and parafin in top of double boiler. Place over hot water until melted. Dip chilled peanut butter balls in chocolate mixture to coat. Place on wax paper lined sheets to set chocolate.When dry, store in refrigerator.

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3 Recipe Reviews

Lorna Ellis

Lorna Ellis reviewed Chocolate Covered Peanut Butter Balls on May 31, 2000

How can you use parafin in food, here it is used to burn lamps and heaters.
Lorna Ellis

Lorna Ellis reviewed Chocolate Covered Peanut Butter Balls on May 31, 2000

How can you use parafin in food, here it is used to burn lamps and heaters.
Vicky from Kansas

Vicky from Kansas reviewed Chocolate Covered Peanut Butter Balls on December 19, 2002

I've made a version of this recipe and instead of using parafin with the chocolate, I use shortening. For dipping the PB balls, you melt 1 bag of chocolate chips with 2 TBS of shortening and you've got a dipping chocolate. And of course, another alternative would be to get the specific (Giradelli)chocolate for dipping.