These peanut butter truffles are the perfect sweet treat to serve on game day. Super cute and fun and easy to make, they are perfect to serve to a crowd. These no bake truffles are decorated to resemble footballs for a tasty treat for all ages.
These peanut butter truffles are a TOUCHDOWN! They didn’t last long at all. In fact, Chris and Adalyn were watching over me just hoping I’d mess up and pass them one sooner. If you’re a fan of peanut butter, try these yummy no bake peanut butter bars.
When it comes to serving guests on game day, it’s easy to get stuck serving wings, chips and dips, this weekend I decided to mix things up with these perfectly sweet and salty truffles. Of course, you don’t need to make them into the football shapes, you can just roll them into balls and then dip them in chocolate. But where’s the fun in that?!
You just need a few simple ingredients to make these fun truffles!
To Make These Peanut Butter Truffles, You Will Need
- Creamy Peanut Butter – Do not use natural for this recipe. However, you can learn how to make peanut butter here for a delicious and healthy treat for another time!
- Butter – Salted or unsalted, your preference.
- Heavy Cream – Also known as whipping cream.
- Vanilla – Pure is preferable over imitation. Homemade vanilla is my go to.
- Powdered Sugar – Also known as confectioners’ sugar it’s fine texture makes these so creamy. If you don’t have powdered sugar, you can pulse white granulated sugar in a food processor until fine.
- Milk Chocolate Chips – Milk chocolate, semi-sweet or dark chocolate! Bakers’ melting chocolate also works well.
How to Make Peanut Butter Truffles
- Combine Filling – Combine peanut butter, butter, cream, and vanilla. Add powdered sugar and blend until completely creamy.
- Refrigerate – Refrigerate dough 1+ hours.
- Make Balls – Roll 1″ dough balls between your hands and roll it like dough on the two sides to form football shapes.
- Cover in Chocolate – Melt your chocolate according to instructions and dip, allowing excess to drip before placing them on parchment paper.
- Refrigerate to set.
- Optional: Make Footballs – Using a small tube of icing (not in a can, air bubbles can be an issue), add lines to create footballs.
Can You Make Peanut Butter Truffles Ahead Of Time?
These truffles are the perfect make ahead snack and can be made days ahead of time and stored in the fridge, leaving you more time to be the hostess with the most-ess! This is a great recipe to get the kids in the kitchen too, they’ll love rolling them into the football shapes!
What’s The Best Peanut Butter To Use In These Truffles?
It’s best to use creamy peanut butter for this recipe, and not organic. They are so yummy and so easy to make, I really can’t wait for you guys to try them! Fuss free, easy and make ahead, sweet treats don’t get much better than this!
Tips
- Blend the mixture really well so everything is well combined and smooth.
- Refrigerate the dough for at least an hour so that it is easy to roll.
- After you dip the truffles in chocolate, lay them on parchment so things don’t get messy!
- Refrigerate until ready to serve.
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Peanut Butter Truffles
Ingredients
- 1 cup creamy peanut butter
- 5 tablespoons butter melted
- 1 tablespoon heavy cream
- 1 tablespoon vanilla
- 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
- 1 cup milk chocolate chips or Baker’s melting chocolate
Instructions
- Combine peanut butter, butter, cream, & vanilla. Blend until smooth.
- Add powdered sugar & blend until completely creamy.
- Refrigerate dough 1+ hours.
- Roll 1″ dough balls between your hands & roll it like dough on the two sides to form football shapes.
- Melt your chocolate according to instructions & dip, allowing excess to drip before placing them on parchment paper.
- Refrigerate to set.
- Using a small tube of icing {not in a can, air bubbles can be an issue}, add lines to create footballs.
Tips
Substitutions and Notes
- Creamy Peanut Butter – Do not use natural.
- Butter – Salted or unsalted, your preference.
- Heavy Cream – Also known as whipping cream.
- Powdered Sugar – Also known as confectioners’ sugar it’s fine texture makes these so creamy. If you don’t have powdered sugar, you can pulse white granulated sugar in a food processor until fine.
- Milk Chocolate Chips – Milk chocolate, semi-sweet or dark chocolate! Bakers’ melting chocolate also works well.
Tips
- Blend the mixture really well so everything is well combined and smooth.
- Refrigerate the dough for at least an hour so that it is easy to roll.
- After you dip the truffles in chocolate, lay them on parchment so things don’t get messy!
- Refrigerate until ready to serve.
Estimated nutrition information is provided as a courtesy and is not guaranteed.
