Chocolate Covered Peanut Butter Balls Recipe

By Summer:

This was ALWAYS my favorite Christmas recipe. And you know what, it still is! YUM! My favorite thing is to eat them frozen. My mom use to freeze them to hide them from me, but I knew where they were and would sneak them. Because of this I grow up loving them best frozen.

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Mix peanut butter, ½ cup butter, sugar, and vanilla

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Form nickel-sized balls

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Spear with a toothpick

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After freezing the balls melt some chocolate and dip them

dip in chocolate

Put back in freezer

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Chocolate Covered Peanut Butter Balls Recipe:

Ingredients:

1½ cups peanut butter
16 ounces powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup butter, divided
12 ounces semisweet chocolate chips

Directions:

1. Line a baking sheet with wax paper and place in the freezer.

2. Mix peanut butter, ½ cup butter, sugar, and vanilla. Remove frozen sheet. With hands form nickel-sized balls. Mixture will be stiff. Place balls on sheet and spear with a toothpick.

3. Once sheet is full place sheet back into the freezer and allow balls freeze while slowly melting together chocolate and ½ cup butter in a double boiler.

4. Remove balls from freezer and coat in chocolate as desired (I do a full dip though some like to do a ½ or ¾ dip) and replace onto waxed cookie sheet.

5. Freeze or refrigerate for 30 minutes or longer to allow chocolate to firm.

6. For storage, keep refrigerated.

About Summer:

Summer is very active in our Local MOMS Club chapter, she is the mother of two adorable active boys, and is always thinking of ways to help others. She is a friend, a wife, and always busy as all mommies are. She is very active on Facebook, addicted to Geocaching and very interested in organic and green living while cooking up a storm

Holiday Recipe Using Pringles: Kringle-Spiced Pringles Cookies

This recipes was sent to me by Pringles and I’m on a plane right now wishing I was in my kitchen with a canister of pringles, so I can try it out. I LOVE pringles for me they are the chip that once you start you can’t stop. I just can’t stop until I’ve eaten the whole container so I try to avoid them.

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Consider mixing-up your traditional holiday cookie batch this year with a recipe using Pringles crisps. Below is an original recipe for Kringle-Spiced Pringles Cookies, a sandwich cookie recipe that combines the savory crunch of Pringles Original Potato crisps with a sweet and zesty jam to create a winning substitute for the ginger cookie. So share the Holiday Spirit by giving a can of Pringles and the Kringle recipe to encourage holiday baking as a family activity.

Kringle-Spiced Pringles Cookies Recipe:

Ingredients:

1 can Pringle’s “The Original”
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon allspice
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
2 sticks unsalted butter, softened
1 cup dark brown sugar, packed
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup fruit preserves, raspberry or mixed berry
1/3 cup crystallized ginger, finely chopped

Directions:

1. Preheat the oven at to 350 degrees and place Pringles, flour, baking soda, and spices in a food processor, and puree until the consistency of corn meal; set aside.

2. In a large mixing bowl, cream the butter and sugar until slightly fluffy.

3. Add the egg and vanilla, and mix for 30 seconds.

4. Pour the Pringles spice mixture into the bowl and mix for 1 minute; place dough in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour.

5. Drop by rounded teaspoon onto ungreased baking sheets, and bake for 9 to 11 minutes or until golden brown.

6. In a small bowl, combine fruit preserves and ginger (if desired, ginger is optional); spread 1 teaspoon onto a cookie, and top with another cookie.  Instead of crystallized ginger can swap out 2 teaspoons of powdered ginger to the jam. 

Quick & Easy Snowflake Snack Recipe

For a fun treat I made the kids edible snowflakes. It was really quite an easy and quick snack to make. I found the recipe in the Family Fun Kids magazine that comes out in January.

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Snowflake Snack Recipe

Ingredients:

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Tortillas
Cinnamon
Sugar
Butter Spray

Directions:

Heat oven to 350 degrees
Fold Tortillas in half and then half again
Cut shapes out of the tortilla
Unfold
Spray with butter
Sprinkle with cinnamon & sugar
Heat for 5-10 minutes

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Let cool and serve

Holiday Recipe: A Cinnamon Spiked Eggnog

I would recommend making your own eggnog if we had success with it. Quite a few years ago, my husband made his own home made eggnog from scratch. It was AWFUL, he even colored it blue because at the time he was really into using food coloring, so he colored everything he made. Who am I kidding he still loves to play with the food coloring. Anyway, our homemade eggnog was a disaster. So, this year, I’m just recommending you create a special treat with simplicity. Just BUY the Eggnog. Ok!

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Spiked Eggnog Recipe:

(this recipe is from Angostura Bitters Facebook page.

4oz Chilled Eggnog
1 1/2 oz Angostura 7 year Rum
1/4 oz Angostura aromatic bitters
1/4 oz Chilled Heavy Whipping Cream
1 Barspoon Simple Syrup

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Directions:

Chill all ingredients
In a mixing tin, combine ingredients without ice and shake to fluff the liquids
Add ice and shake briefly (about 3 seconds)
Strain into a stemmed glass
If desired grate cinnamon over the cocktail

 

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