Crunchy Peanut Butter Balls

peanut butter balls without powdered sugar

Looking for a Crunchy Peanut Butter Balls Recipe with Regular Granulated Sugar and Rice Krispies? You can make these Buckeyes without powdered sugar!!

Prep Time1

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Keyword: peanut butter

Servings: balls

Calories: 402kcal

Ingredients

6 Tbsp soft butter (I use Parkay Margarine)
3 cups Granulated Sugar
3 cups Peanut Butter I use Jif
6 cups Rice Krispies
2 bags Semi-Sweet Morsels for dipping (These melt MUCH better than the milk chocolate morsels)

Instructions

Soften butter or margarine in microwave.
Place 6 cups of Rice Krispies into a ziploc bag and crunch them into tiny pieces. I squeeze the bag, lay them on the counter and beat them with my hands, use a big metal spoon, etc.
In a BIG bowl combine the butter, rice krispies, peanut butter and sugar. (EVERYTHING except the morsels!)
Mix well with a mixer.
Place in the freezer to harden. I usually put it in the ziploc bag that I used for smashing the Rice Krispies (reusing the bag...frugal, right?!)
Once the mixture is frozen (a good hour or more), break it apart with your hands or cut off chunks with a knife and roll into balls. If the mixture is not frozen enough the balls will crumble and not roll easily. I usually only take out half the mixture at a time so it doesn't thaw too much.
Once you form the balls, place them back into the freezer on wax paper or foil and let them freeze again.
Melt the chocolate in a double broiler. Some people also use a microwave to melt their chocolate. I rig up a double boiler with my pots and pans making sure that the pot with the morsels doesn't touch the water. Do NOT turn the stove up too high. It's best to melt the chocolate SLOWLY....this is very important. I've had a hard time with my chocolate this year but was finally able to get it right. Once the chocolate is melted, turn the stove off for a while. If you need to melt it a little more, just turn it back on.
Take the Peanut butter balls out of the freezer (about 5 at a time so they don't thaw too much) and use a toothpick to dip them into the melted chocolate. They will slide off the toothpick easily so you'll need to hold them sideways and shake the chocolate off a little before placing them onto wax paper or foil.
If the toothpick doesn't slide out easily once place on the wax paper, just wait a minute or two and it will. Continue to take out 5 peanut butter balls and dipping them into the chocolate until your wax paper or foil is full. Place the chocolate covered peanut butter balls back into the freezer.
Once frozen, place into a ziploc freezer bag.
Keep frozen until ready to eat. We like them best right out of the freezer, but you could let them thaw if you prefer.

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