No Bake Peanut Butter Balls

4.78 from 9 votes

These simple No Bake Peanut Butter Balls are amazingly creamy in the inside, and slightly crunchy on the outside. An amazing holiday treat, but you can use different sprinkles for any occasion!

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Keyword no bake dessert, peanut butter balls

Prep Time 45

Total Time 45

Servings peanut butter balls

Calories 128kcal

Author Sue Ringsdorf

Ingredients

1.5 cups creamy peanut butter
1.5 cups crushed graham cracker crumbs - about 1 3/4 sleeves
1 cup powdered sugar
1 Tablespoon vanilla
1/2 cup unsalted butter - at room temperature
12-15 oz. Ghirardelli dark chocolate melting wafers
sprinkles - miscellaneous

Instructions

Prepare a baking sheet with parchment paper.
In a food processor, add graham crackers and pulse until you get course crumbs.
In a mixing bowl, use a hand mixer to combine the graham cracker crumbs, peanut butter, powdered sugar, vanilla, and softened butter. Cream together until very well mixed. Chill the mixture for at least an hour.
1.5 cups crushed graham cracker crumbs, 1.5 cups creamy peanut butter, 1 cup powdered sugar, 1 Tablespoon vanilla, 1/2 cup unsalted butter
Form into approximately 34 small balls and place on baking sheet. Place in freezer for 30 minutes to make them easier to handle.
Take the balls out of the freezer and re-roll the cold peanut butter balls into nice, even shapes.
Melt chocolate wafers in microwave. Dip peanut butter balls in chocolate, and place back on baking sheet. Add sprinkles as you go so they stick to the chocolate.
12-15 oz. Ghirardelli dark chocolate melting wafers, sprinkles
Refrigerate until set.

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Notes

Make sure you refrigerate the mixture before forming into balls. Even then, you will probably need to put the balls in the freezer and then reform them slightly. The mixture is quite sticky so freezing it will make for easier handling.
After the peanut butter balls are nice and cold, melt the chocolate and dip them. Follow that by a few sprinkles, making sure you add the sprinkles immediately after dipping because the chocolate sets very quickly.
For best results, store these peanut butter balls in the refrigerator.
They can also be frozen, in an airtight container, for up to three months.

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