Yum! These delicious morsels are time consuming but oh sooooo decadently addicting! I am a perfectionist at heart (I know this isn't a "healthy" trait, but sometimes I just can't help myself lol!) and the fact that my PB balls look so pitiful will more than likely keep me from making these for anything other than special occasions. I guess I just need to break down and invest in a dipping tool set haha. :) That aside, I think the ratio of PB, sugar and cereal is spot on here. The PB mixture is SUPER easy to work with (at least it was for me), has the right amount of crunch to it and is sweet enough to not rot your teeth. NOTE: To make your chocolate go farther, add 1.5 - 2 T of shortening to it. This thins it out a bit and makes dipping MUCH easier! I'd also like to point out that I was able to make nearly 8 DOZEN balls out of this using my 1 T Pampered Chef cookie scoop!!!!! Obviously, I needed another bag of chips to get the job done, but instead of using chocolate chips (I opted for MILK chocolate for my first 4 dozen), I used WHITE chocolate chips. Because my white chocolate dipped PB balls looked boring (snore, snore), I drizzled them with a touch of melted chocolate. Mmmmmmm.... Thanks for sharing your recipe, Nancy! Since these are usually part of many of my friends and co-workers holiday cookie trays, I think I'll wait until then to indulge. This requires a little too much effort for an everyday treat. :-)

I have been making these sweet treats for years too! Try rolling them in coconut instead of dipped in chocolate! OMG, they are super addictive!

Too sweet for my taste but I think I will use 1 cup less sugar. Very easy.

The recipe was a hit with everyone. No complaints about taste. I would recommend, as some have, to be easy on the confectioners' sugar. The peanut butter is sweet enough with 2-3 cups of sugar. I don't have any specialized equipment, so I just used a crock pot to melt the chocolate and a fork to pull the balls out. It's definitely an acquired skill. I'd say to bring some extra chocolate chips, just in case, because the two bags that I had never turned out to be enough. And be sure to allot plenty of time to this project, as it took me about an hour just to dip the balls in the chocolate.

Super good if you cut the sugar in half and add a liiittle more p.b. and rice crispy cereal. I also add 1/4 tsp vanilla extract and use natural p.b, so I have to add 1/4 tsp salt as well. The chocolate I use is bakers unsweetened dark plus milk choc chips (that are sweetened) and it's a nice balance. I do add a tsp coconut oil to the melting chocolate to thin it just a little. I will make these at Christmas again with my other balls. :) ..I'm sure the kids would like these better than the rum balls accidently bitten into last Christmas lol

How do I love these treats? Let me count the ways! First off I will tell you, I am not a huge peanut butter fan...don't hate it, just don't love it. I needed something that seemed fairly simple yet round and "candyish" for the holidays. The holidays passed and I never got them made but a few weeks later, I decided since I had all the ingredients on hand, I would give them a go. #1 (as I am counting the ways I love them)they are EASY to make. At first when I was rolling them into balls by hand they (my hands) started to get more and more gooey. I fixed that problem by keeping my hands dusted with powdered sugar. #2 They LOOK nice and could easily be dressed up even more with sprinkles etc. #3 They TASTE out of this world....I'm serious, they are SO creamy on the inside they taste worthy of the name "truffle". It is not normal for me to get a hankerin for anything peanut buttery but I seriously got hungry for these! Just to get them away from me, I gave the last dozen or so to my dear friend and told her where to find the recipe. A week or so later I spoke with her and she had already made them...TWICE! (she didn't exactly thank me for showing her this new vice!) BEWARE...your greatest dieting weakness will be replaced with these new wonders....before making, consider carefully if you want to do this to yourself and others! AWWWWWW..... GO FOR IT!!!!! You'll thank yourself. Between curses.....you'll thank yourself! ;D

I made this recipe and gave it to friends and family as part of my Christmas baking. This is the item that recieved the most compliments and that people asked me for the recipe for. I don't know if it was my miscalculation because I was baking multiple things at once, but I needed more chocolate to coat the balls. I recommend having more semi-sweet chocolate on hand just in case. Like another reviewer, I also needed a bit more of peanut butter and butter mixture in order to mix in all the cereal.

I did enjoy these, however, many people that I served them to did not. Following other reviews, I cut the sugar back to about 1 1/2 cups and they were still sickly sweet. Adding all that sugar to already sweet peanut butter and covering it in sweet chocolate. I even thinned the chocolate so I could have a thinner coating. The next time I make these, I will scale the sugar back even further. These certainly have potential to be 5 stars, but the amount of sugar in this recipe is WAY off. I couldn't imagine what it would have been like with the full 4 cups.

We loved these peanut butter balls. My kids made them with my assistant that is how easy they were to make. Will definately make them again and again.

This recipe was such a disappointment! I followed the recipe exactly but the balls were very hard to stick together. I did read reviews and add extra peanut butter as suggested. Even after working them into balls as well as possible and putting them in the freezer for a time, they still fell apart when trying to dip them. It was a gooey mess. This was a total disaster and I will not use this recipe again.