Gifts from the Kitchen - Easy Peanut Butter Balls

This is an easy candy recipe to make for the holidays or to give as a gift if you're making special candy or cookies for teachers, neighbors or the mail man.

Ingredients

1 stick butter
1 1/4 c peanut butter
1 lb powdered sugar
2 tbs malt powder
pinch of salt
3 or 4 Hershey's chocolate candy bars

Directions for Peanut Butter Balls

Cream peanut butter and butter together.

Add powdered sugar, malt powder and salt.

Form into one inch balls and chill for one hour.

Melt chocolate bars in a double boiler.

Stick toothpick into peanut butter balls and dip into melted chocolate.

Drop from toothpick onto waxed paper and let chocolate cool. Once the peanut butter balls are cool, you can wrap them with colored, food-grade cellophane or add to a holiday gift basket.





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