I make PB balls every year for my hubby's coworkers and my little boy's teachers and bus drivers, so I end up making hundreds, literally. Anyway, my question is this- can I roll these now and stick them in the freezer? I plan on dipping them next weekend. Should I dip them while they are frozen or will that cause a problem. In previous years I have used just regular choc. chips and the chocolate as always seemed to thin when I dipped them so this year I bought guittard chocolate a'peels (I think they are just like candy melts, not sure). Is this a good choice? Soory about all the questions, I just want them to turn out perfect this year. They've always been good but I just want to step it up a bit. Thanks!

Hey, my cousin and I make approx. 350 peanut butter balls in addition to, like, 200 lbs of OTHER candies! LOLL Freezing the candy shouldn't hurt it at all as long as you triple wrap it. You can also dip them while frozen, no problem. At least WE have never had a problem. GOOD LUCK AND HAVE FUN!!! I KNOW we will. Candy Days coming up this week!

Beth in KY

Hi Ishi ... here in Ohio, we call chocolate-dipped peanut butter balls "buckeyes", and boy, are they YUMMY!!! I get orders for them often, and I always freeze them ahead of time. I find that they are much easier to dip in the melted chocolate when they are frozen. So, you should be just fine!

P.S. - I see that you love "Elf", too! That is one of my all-time favorite holiday movies! I just love Will Ferrell!!!

What are these "peanut butter balls" you speak of?

I also freeze and then dip. I freeze the leftovers when I have an order for them too ( not dipped of course).
ELF is my all time Favorite Christmas movie too. My dh is always making fun of me..LOL

Thanks for the responses! Great to see so many Elf fans out there! It has now surpassed my former favorite Christmas movie, A Christmas Story, for the number 1 spot! I still love them both but Elf is just so hilarious!

Bethola- I love that line, too! I think I will answer the phone like that tomorrow just for kicks.

Anyway, about the PB balls. They are rolled and frozen, now. But here's a question- is your PB dough pretty sticky and soft when you roll it? It rolled up pretty well but it was a bit messy. Do you guys have the same experience? Did I not add enough powdered sugar? It tastes great and they are really solid now that they are in the freezer so it shouldn't be a problem dipping them. Just curious what y'alls experience is.

These sound good. Are they peanutbutter cake balls??

Kay- they are actually peanut butter, butter, and powdered sugar, mixed up then rolled into balls and dipped in chocolate. They are to die for!!! Just like reese's cups but better!

I would love your recipe. If you would like to share you could PM me if you don't want it all over. They sounds AWESOME. And my family and friends would love them.

Sure! This one's no secret. I use this recipe that I found on Recipezaar. In fact, you'll see the feedback I left last year under the name Mama's Apprentice. It's really yummy. As I say in the feedback, you may need to add a bit more powdered sugar than what is called for. Here's to your first PB balls!

http://www.recipezaar.com/73503

I'm sure your family will thank you!!!

I had an idea, Thake three peanut butter balls in graduated sizes, staked on top of each other dipped in white choclate, add prettzal pieces for arms , possibly something for a hat, fondant scarf, and draw faces with edible markers or RI and make snowmen . You would probably have to secure them w/ a skewer or toothpick. You could make a display with coconut snow. Do you all think this would work. Also if you need to cut the sugar for dibetics or whaterver powedered milk instead of sugar or for part of the sugar works great and tasted good too. I like them this way best and it seems a little more nutrtitious too.

I make a "log" of the peanut butter filling and then freeze it or cut it and roll them--makes it a little faster then scooping and rolling. They will be fine frozen and then dipped. I have to make those, salted nut rolls, peanut brittle, penuche, toffee, ect so it is busy here too. We make as much as we can ahead of time and yes freeze some of it. As long as its wrapped well you can't tell it spent time frozen.

Here's my recipe for buckeyes (chocolate-dipped peanut butter balls):

18 oz. peanut butter (creamy or crunchy, whichever you prefer)
1 pound powdered sugar
1/4 pound butter (or margarine)

Blend ingredients together (I use my KA mixer and it works great --- I wouldn't recommend mixing by hand!! ). Roll into chestnut-sized balls. Chill for 1 hour or longer (or put in freezer if you need them to chill more quickly).

Melt 12 ounces of chocolate chips and a small chunk of paraffin wax (optional - this helps firm up the chocolate once it cools on the pb balls) in a double boiler. Spear chilled pb balls with toothpicks and dip about 3/4 of the way into the chocolate. Let them firm up on wax paper. Remove toothpicks and smooth out toothpick hole with your finger.

Enjoy!!


NOTE: The full recipe makes about 70-75 buckeyes, so you can halve or quarter (or third) the recipe if you don't need to make that many.

You all just reminded me that I have about 12 dozen to make next week too. Yummy Yummy!!!

I'm going to make peanut butter cups rather then the balls this year. I know it will take longer to do them but to add the peanut butter mixture I will pipe them into the cups of chocolate then fill up with more chocolate to cover.

I'm making both milk chocolate and white chocolate cups.

the recipe i found on this site adds crushed rice crispies , YUMMY

I've started dipping with a spoon instead of poking with a toothpick and haven't have any problems with cracking or oozing.

I also refreeze these after dipping and had no problems with them. Now I'm going to dip put in a container and use a food saver bag around it (so they don't crack from the pressure of the lack of air.