Reese’s Peanut Butter Balls

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!

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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 think the easiest way to accomplish this is to use a small cookie scoop.

I have a cookie scoop that portions out about a 1/2 tablespoon of dough.

You could use one that is this size and do a heaping spoonful.

Or if you want a little more peanut butter filling, you could go with a 1 tablespoon-sized cookie scoop.

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.

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