Unlike last year, this year I have a lot of time on my hand to make christmas appear to be a childhood dream. This year it is time to make christmas candy, ornaments, cookies/cake, candle and everything else one need for a perfect christmas. And I decided that there is no better way to start a good christmas tradition than by making peanut butter balls.
First I found the ingredients:
50 g butter
250 g peanut butter
500 g confectionary sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Then all you have to do is mix everything, do not, NOT, melt the butter, you are supposed to kneed everything together. Till it looks like the picture below.
Then you have to pinch balls together, just take a bit in your hand and squeeze until it is a firm ball. Like so.
Put your balls to rest in the fridge or freezer until hard. Then carefully insert a toothpick till it is stuck.
Melt a lot of chocolate, probably around 300 g, in a double boiler. Add about 60 g of paraffin wax (the kind you buy at a grocery store, I know it very well exists a lot of places :p). When the chocolate/wax mix is melted, dip the peanut butter balls in the mix, cover entirely.
For a better result, hold one peanut butter ball on a stick in one hand, while dipping with the other to allow the first one to cool, almost, completely. Place on a sheet of baking paper.
Carefully pull the toothpick out after a little while, while everything is a bit soft. Then put store in a cool place in some sort of container. I made some cute paper containers which I will show soon.
Enjoy :]
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