Homemade Chocolate Peanut Butter Footballs
These footballs will be kicking it at your Superbowl Party! Reese's Peanut Butter Cup copy-cat recipe! Yum!!!
Servings: 20 Footballs
Calories:
Ingredients
Footballs
- 1 cup creamy peanut butter
- ¼ cup unsalted butter
- ¼ cup light brown sugar
- 1 ¾ cups powdered sugar , add more if needed
- dash salt optional
Chocolate Shell
- 1 cup milk chocolate chips
- 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 2 tablespoons vegetable shortening
Stitching
- Vanilla Frosting
Instructions
- Line a baking sheet with wax paper.
- In a saucepan over medium heat, stir together peanut butter, butter, and brown sugar until melted and bubbling. Remove from heat.
- Gradually mix in powdered sugar until fully combined.
- Shape the mixture into footballs using a scoop or cookie cutter. Place on the baking sheet and refrigerate for 30 minutes (or freeze for 5–10 minutes).
- Melt chocolate chips with shortening in the microwave, stirring every 30 seconds until smooth.
- Dip footballs in chocolate, let excess drip off, and place on wax paper.
- Pipe frosting to resemble football laces, then refrigerate for 30 minutes to set.
- Store in an airtight container in the fridge until ready to serve.
Notes
I noticed when I use Jif I need more powdered sugar (2 cups) with Skippy I used 1 3/4 cup powdered sugar.