Peanut Butter Balls with Rice Krispies Recipe

Name: Peanut Butter Balls with Rice Krispies
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 90 min
Ingredients: 3 1/2 Cups Cocoa Rice Krispies; 16 oz peanut butter (creamy or crunchy, your preference, 2 cups); 1/2 cup Butter (1 stick); 1 lb powdered sugar (1/2 bag); 12 oz semi-sweet chocolate melting wafers

May 17, 2018 31 Comments

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These peanut butter balls with Rice Krispies make the perfect bite-sized treat. Chocolate covered peanut butter balls get a crispy upgrade, they are the best version yet!

Chocolate covered peanut butter rice crispy treat balls presented in bowl with post title.

How To Make Chocolate Covered Peanut Butter Balls

These peanut butter balls with rice krispies are my husband’s absolute favorite holiday treat. His mother has made them for decades now. Although I altered his mother’s original peanut butter balls recipe, I think my status as “best wife ever” would seriously be in question if I couldn’t make these. He begs for them from his mom and myself every chance he gets. The man isn’t your subtle hint type either. He also isn’t the begging type either which makes this all the more entertaining. If guilt tripping means that I bake cookies, go ahead and put a sign on my forehead. These are actually even better since they are no bake peanut butter balls.

No bake Peanut Butter Balls Recipe with Cocoa Rice Krispies. These are the best Peanut Butter Balls!

Now I will be completely honest here. I am not a peanut butter fan. I mean, it’s ok. Remember those “How does ____ eat a Reese’s cup?” commercials? My version involved peeling all the chocolate outside off and then tossing the filling. I know, that would probably be sacrilege for some people. That being said, I think I ate about 8 of these. My recipe makes 50 but you can easily divide that in half.

Tips for Dipping the Balls in Chocolate

Over the years, I have learned a lot about the best techniques for dipping chocolate covered peanut butter balls. Making the perfect peanut butter ball is all about the heavenly ratio of chocolate to peanut butter.

What chocolate is best for dipping?

In my humble opinion, this dulci frutta is the best supermarket variety of melting chocolate for dipping. You can get the chocolate shell pretty thin with this and it does have a solid chocolate taste.
My second choice would go to this chocolate melting bark, or Ghiradelli Wafers. Both work well and have good chocolate flavor.
Avoid anything called candy wafers (like these). Quite frankly, and this is my opinion alone, I want real chocolate for this even if I don’t get those awesome perfectly smooth truffle balls that you see on many blogs.
Regular Chocolate or Chocolate Chips will work. However, I find that the coating of chocolate is much thicker. I used to only dip the peanut butter balls about ⅔ when I use real chocolate because of how much thick the shell was.

Technique for Dipping Items in Chocolate

First, I get everything setup and ready to go before heating the chocolate. The chocolate is perfectly fine to be melted in the microwave. Heat for 30 seconds, stir, repeat until smooth is the simplest method. Just make sure no water ever comes in contact with the melting chocolate either while heating or after melted.

What I do is drop them in the chocolate, spoon the chocolate around them (do not swirl the ball itself), and then pick them up with a fork. I don’t stab them with the fork but scoop them up with it. Then I shake them a bit to remove the excess chocolate. When I am satisfied, I use a toothpick to push them out on a sheet of wax paper. And voila, perfectly chocolate covered peanut butter balls!Check Out The Video At The Bottom To See This Technique in Action

How to Dip Balls in Chocolate for Peanut Butter balls with Powdered sugar recipe

Peanut Butter Balls Recipe Notes

I always make a few recipe notes based on questions recieved in the past. It doesn’t matter what kind of peanut butter you use for these peanut butter balls recipe. I personally recommend a smooth peanut butter rather than a crunchy one. However, if you like the crunchy style peanut butter, that will actually work too. Also, any chilling can be done in the refrigerator or the freezer if you like, but you can reduce the time. The point of chilling the peanut butter balls is actually to get the chocolate to harden faster, so no need to completely freeze the balls.

I was once asked about substituting white sugar for powdered sugar. Peanut Butter Balls with powdered sugar are a necessity. I don’t think that the granulated sugar would give the necessary lighter texture and may melt wierd in the peanut butter.

This recipe makes 50 1-inch balls, but feel free to divide in half. (I always recommend to open the print button while making and any ads from this page will disappear so you don’t loose your place).

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Parchment Paper. Wax paper also works.
My favorite Chocolate Wafers: Cuts down the prep time and this is my favorite store-bought sauce. You can find it in most grocery stores, so this is just a reference.

Batch of decadent chocolate covered crispy peanut butter ball treats mounded in blue ceramic bowl.

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Check Out Our Video For Dipping Tips!

Did you know that October is National Cookie Month? I am joining up with the hosts of Merry Monday for a month long cookie and dessert share-fest! We will be including cookies and desserts. You can join in too! It can be any type of sweet – even healthy ones! Each week the hosts will share a dessert recipe on their blog, which will also contain a special in-linkz roundup of the treat recipes shared on Merry Monday! Recipes starting next Monday will be on all 5 host’s blogs during the month of October!