Reese’s Peanut Butter Balls are like eating a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup, only better. These delicious little morsels have a velvety peanut butter center covered by a layer of rich chocolate. If you like Reese’s Cups, you’ll love these!
Table of contents
🔑 Key to Success #1 – Use Traditional Peanut Butter
🔑 Key to Success #2 – Make the Peanut Butter Balls
🔑 Key to Success #3 – Dip Them in Chocolate
📌 Get the Printable Recipe for Reese’s Peanut Butter Balls
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🔑 Key to Success #1 – Use Traditional Peanut Butter
This Reese’s Peanut Butter Balls recipe needs traditional peanut butter.
I suggest using a high-quality brand like Jif or Skippy.
This recipe will not work well with natural peanut butter.
I have tried it and it’s just not the same.
The peanut butter is so important in this recipe that it’s worth it to use a high-quality brand.
You can use crunchy peanut butter or smooth peanut butter. Either option will be great.
I think smooth peanut butter is more like the filling of a traditional Reese’s peanut butter cup but I like the crunch that the crunchy peanut butter adds.
🔑 Key to Success #2 – Make the Peanut Butter Balls
Just for presentation’s sake, you’ll want to make peanut butter balls that are all about the same size.
I like to portion out my peanut butter filling onto a wax paper-lined sheet then go back and use my hands to roll them into a tight, smooth ball.
Are you on Team More Peanut Butter? Or Team More Chocolate? Let us know in the comments.
🔑 Key to Success #3 – Dip Them in Chocolate
After I’ve rolled up my peanut butter balls, I like to chill them in the refrigerator for an hour or more so that they will firm up before I dip them in the warm chocolate.
I put them on a wax-paper lined baking sheet and just stick them in the fridge.
My chocolate of choice for dipping many of my holiday treats is chocolate almond bark.
It’s sometimes called chocolate candy coating.
It melts smoother and it much easier to work with than melted chocolate chips.
I have a chocolate dipping tool set that is made by Ateco that works really well for dipping all different shapes of treats, including these peanut butter balls.
I find these tools to be a lot easier to use than a fork or a toothpick when dipping food in melted chocolate.
After your peanut butter balls are coated with chocolate, let them hang out on a sheet of waxed paper until they are completely cool and firm.
This will take about an hour or so.
If you need them to set faster, you can pop them back into the refrigerator for a few minutes.
📌 Get the Printable Recipe for Reese’s Peanut Butter Balls
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Reese's Peanut Butter Balls are like eating a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup, only better. These delicious little morsels have a velvety peanut butter center covered by a layer of rich chocolate. If you like Reese's Cups, you'll love these!
Ingredients
1 1/2 cups peanut butter
2 sticks butter
1 lb (3 1/2 cups) powdered sugar
1 pkg (16 oz) chocolate candy coating
Instructions
In microwave-safe bowl, melt together the peanut butter and 2 sticks butter. Microwave on high power for 30-second increments, stirring well in between. Add powdered sugar and mix well.
Pinch of small pieces of dough and roll into tight balls. Chill at least 60 minutes until firm.
In a separate bowl, melt the chocolate candy coating. Dip peanut butter balls into chocolate, tapping off the excess. Place balls on waxed paper and allow to cool completely.
Notes
Use high-quality peanut butter brand like Jif or Skippy. Natural peanut butters do not work well for this recipe. Peanut butter filling can be shaped into balls or eggs before dipping in melted chocolate.
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 30Serving Size: 1 grams Amount Per Serving:Unsaturated Fat: 0g
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I use this spiral dipping tool for dipping chocolate truffles and Oreo balls, and it works just as well here. Place a peanut butter ball in the melted chocolate, and lift it back out again with the dipping tool.Quickly flip it upside down onto a lined baking sheet.
The standard Reese's cup, meanwhile, was exactly the reliable 50-50 ratio of peanut butter to chocolate we know and love, making for the ultimate balance between salty and sweet.
Reese's Bites was a product of Hershey Foods Corporation (later renamed The Hershey Company in 2005) as part of HFC's Bites lineup. This product, and the entire Bites lineup were all discontinued due to a choking hazard.
Reese's, which is owned by The Hershey Company, sources its peanut butter from suppliers and also has its own peanut processing plant in Virginia. They also source their chocolate from The Hershey Company.
Why are my Peanut Butter Balls so sticky? First, make sure you're using regular peanut butter (rather than the natural peanut butter that's more runny). If it's too sticky still, you can simply add a little more powdered sugar until it's a nice consistency for rolling into small balls.
You can further augment the gustatory potential of the peanut butter by using both vanilla extract and almond extract in your dough—just a splash of the latter is enough to boost your cookies' nuttiness (while remaining subtle enough that no one will cotton onto the presence of drupe essence in your legume dessert).
The combo of peanut butter and milk chocolate gives this treat a high fat count. Contain: 1 cup (serving): 88 calories, 5 grams fat, 2 grams saturated fat, 8 grams sugar. Stay away, since the grams of fat and calories can add up quickly.
Even though all Reese's shapes are made the exact same way with the exact same recipe, the temperature at which the chocolates hang out in during shipping could play a factor into how fresh each shape tastes.
In June 2019, the candy was renamed to Reese's Take 5 and underwent a packaging change, with the primary color of the package changing from black to orange Also in June 2019, Hershey released that the ingredient peanut butter in TAKE5 has always been Reese's Peanut Butter.
These round Reese's balls still contain the same classic Reese's flavour & texture, but came in these little round bite-sized pieces. Despite their popularity, Hershey's removed them from the market because their round shape was making them a choking hazard.
Syrup, Rice Bran and/or Canola Oil, Corn Meal, Salt, Hershey's® Cocoa, Red 40, Yellow 5&6, Blue 1, and Other Color Added, Trisodium Phosphate, Natural and Artificial Flavor.
REESE'S Peanut Butter Cups begin with roasting fresh peanuts for REESE'S one-of-a-kind peanut butter. The peanut butter and milk chocolate are then dropped and pressed into a mold that gives REESE'S Cups their iconic shape.
Are Reese's Peanut Butter Cups vegan? Because they're covered in milk chocolate, the original Reese's Peanut Butter Cups are not vegan. However, a new dairy-free, oat-based version of the recipe, called Reese's Plant Based, was released in 2023 (more on that below!).
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