You might have noticed by now that I sort of like peanut butter.
I mean, it’s not an addiction or anything. I can totally stop eating it whenever I want.
I’ve never wanted to stop eating it though. In fact, I had a spoonful of peanut butter for breakfast this morning.
When I stumbled upon this little gem of a recipe from The Girl Who Ate Everything, I knew that this cheeseball would soon be mine. You see, The Girl Who Ate Everything only seems to eat foods that I would also love to eat. We are food twins. Soul mates. Our taste buds were made for each other, but I mean that in a totally non-creepy way. I’m not planning on yanking her taste buds out of her mouth or anything. Promise!
So, uh, I made this cheeseball. Then I ate the crap out of it. The end.
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Ingredients
- 8 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 3/4 cup creamy peanut butter (not all-natural)
- 3 tablespoons packed brown sugar
- 3/4 cup milk chocolate chips
- 3/4 cup peanut butter chips
- Graham cracker sticks, teddy grahams, apple slices, Nilla wafers, for dipping
Instructions
- Beat together the cream cheese, powdered sugar, peanut butter and brown sugar in the bowl of your stand mixer.
- Spoon onto a large piece of plastic wrap; bring up all four corners and twist tightly to form a ball.
- Freeze for 1 hour and 30 minutes or until the cheese ball is firm enough to keep its shape. Place peanut butter and chocolate chips on a plate. Remove the plastic wrap from the ball and roll it into the chocolate and peanut butter chips to completely cover, pressing them into the ball if necessary.
- Place the ball on serving dish; cover and freeze for 2 hours or until almost firm. (Can be made ahead. If frozen overnight, thaw at room temperature for 20 to 30 minutes before serving.) Serve with graham cracker sticks, teddy grahams, Nilla wafers, or apple slices for dipping or spreading.
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I saw this on her site and on pinterest and I love PB and want to make this thing. For a party. I dont need this just…”hanging around” all for me
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Peanut butter is totally my addiction. I have had this on my list since I saw it on her blog too. Looks so good!
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Wow! This sounds very interesting and good! I love peanut butter and cream cheese, so why not put them together! Brilliant!
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Oh this has my Dad written all over it.
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Peanut butter should be its own food group! I fear if I make this I will eat it all myself.
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The problem with dessert like this is that it seems so harmless with just a dab here and there on a dipper…until you’ve eaten the whole thing!
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Life changer? I think so.
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Wait, since it’s ONE ball, it’s a single serving size, right? Please say yes.
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Um, YES please!!
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O..M…G…..whomever created this little ball of “sin” needs to go pray for FORGIVENESS!
and all those who eat it!
good food…good meat…good gosh…lets eat! amen!
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I love peanut butter! I generally hate cheese balls, but I think this is the kind of thing I can get behind. Thanks for sharing!
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Peanut butter & chocolate… My weakness but I will Have to give in. Sounds so good!
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I made this for our Super Bowl Party and it was a HUGE hit. It was a little hard to form the thing into a ball at first, but I did it. But really it would have been delicious even if i had just served it in a bowl with the chips mixed into it.
Thank you for a great recipe!
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I made this last night for the Superbowl with vanilla wafers and it was delicious!!!!
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So why can’t you use all natural peanut butter??
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Karly Reply:
February 8th, 2012 at 9:55 am
@Lynn R,
The all-natural peanut butter tends to separate and get oily. I just don’t think it would hold together well.
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I wish I could eat peanut butter, this looks so good.
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Oh yum! I think peanut butter, and peanut butter chips, makes everything better!
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Where do you find the graham sticks? I haven’t been able to find them in PA for a couple years now. Only thing I can find that’s similar is Scooby Bones and I HATE serving them especially with something so esquisite!
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Karly Reply:
February 13th, 2012 at 5:08 pm
@Janelle Lott,
I used a store brand. I’m pretty sure it was Kroger.
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Janelle Lott Reply:
February 13th, 2012 at 7:02 pm
Bummer. No Kroger here. If I’m ever near one, I’ll stock up! Thanks!
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Karly Reply:
February 14th, 2012 at 9:56 am
@Janelle Lott
Well, if you aren’t scared of stocking up, Amazon has some organic ones! http://www.amazon.com/Earths-Best-Organic-Crunchin-5-3-Ounce/dp/B000ER1ER2/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1329234608&sr=8-2,
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I tried this tonight for the 1st time for company we are having tomorrow. While it tasted OK, not super fantastic, it was so soft that I could not make a traditional ball shape out of it to roll it in the chocolate & peanut butter chips so it did not look very pretty when done. I followed the instructions to the letter. Did anyone else have this problem?
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I made this today. I served it with Scooby Snacks. It was fantastic! My new favorite dish to bring to a party! Thank you!
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Karly Reply:
April 28th, 2012 at 1:39 pm
@Jodi,
Yay! Glad you like it!
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