Peanut Butter Balls
- 2 13 cups confectioners' sugar
- 1 cup graham cracker crumbs
- 12 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 34 cup chunky peanut butter
- 10 ounces bittersweet chocolate, coarsly chopped
- 2 teaspoons vegetable oil
- 2 cups salted peanuts, finely chopped
- IN a large bowl, stir together the confectioner's sugar and graham cracker crumbs.
- Add the butter and peanut butter and work with a wooden spoon or with your hands until thoroughly combined.
- POrtion the dough into 60 1-inch balls and place them on parchment-lined roll pans.
- Combine the chocolate and vegetable oil in a medium heat-proof bowl.
- PLace the bowl over a medium saucepan filled with simmering water and slowly melt the chocolate, stirring occasionally.
- When the chocolate is melted, remove it from the heat, but keep the bowl over the pot of water.
- Place about 1/2 cup o the chopped peanuts in a low flat dish, such as a pie plate.
- Using a chocolate dipping fork, or a 2 prong fork, dip one ball at a time into the melted chocolate.
- Tap the fork gently on the side of the bowl to help drain the chocolate from the cookie.
- The coating should be thin.
- ROll the dipped cookie in the chopped peanuts, and coat it evenly.
- Remove the cookie with a 2 prong fork and place it back on the jelly roll pan to set.
- Repeat with the remaining cookies, adding peanuts as needed.
- If the chocolate begins to thicken, return the pan to the stove and heat until the chocolate thins to the proper consistency.
- Let air dry on the cookie sheets.
- Store in an airtight container layered between strips of wax paper, and refrigerate for up to 3 weeks These cookies may be frozen.
sugar, graham cracker crumbs, unsalted butter, chunky peanut butter, bittersweet chocolate, vegetable oil, peanuts
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/peanut-butter-balls-130484 (may not work)