Peanut Butter Balls

      Earlier I said, wrongly, that besides chocolate and toffee the best flavor is lemon. I was forgetting one important factor in the flavor world: peanut butter. The yummy, nutty stuff of life. Peanut butter is delicious. These balls are delicious. Do you see where I'm going with this? The rice crispies give these peanut butter balls a crunchy, crackley kind of texture when you bite into it, and the peanut butter, as always, gives it a yumminess hard to obtain with other ingredients. I recommend this recipe for anyone who's a peanut butter fanatic... like me.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup crunchy (that part is essential... okay, not essential, but pretty AWESOME) peanut butter
• 1/4 cup + Tbsp butter/coconut oil, melted
• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 2 cups rice crispies
• a pat of butter
• 1 1/4 cups chocolate chips
• mini muffin wrappers

Directions:

1)  Mix peanut butter, melted butter, and powdered sugar together in a medium bowl.

2)  Add the rice crispies and mix till they are equally combined. Taste. If you like it really crunchy, add more. 

3) Now put chocolate chips in a bowl with the pat of butter. The butter helps the chocolate to melt. Microwave 30 seconds at a time, stirring between each stop. This keeps the chocolate from burning or changing consistency.

             Repeat this pattern till it is a liquid, about the same consistency of peanut butter like this:

         

         

4) Finally, you dollop spoons of peanut butter mixture into mini cupcake holders and put a blob of chocolate on top. Cover the peanut butter with the chocolate and spread it around if you have to. (The chocolate on top kind of holds the peanut butter together when it starts to melt later.) Put them in the freezer to harden and take them out and any time. You can cover the plate with plastic wrap or something to avoid freezer burn.

The Final Product: