Say good-bye to store bought peanut butter cups, and say hello to these no bake chocolate covered bites. It doesn't get much simpler than 4-ingredients, most of which you already have in your pantry.
I wonder if you could use the flavored pb's?
I use milk chocolate chips melted down with a tablespoon of oil so its still soft somewhat when it hardens. The powdered sugar dissolves into the peanut butter so its not very sweet at all. You need a little experience with powder sugar is you're gonna work with it. If no experience with it, then please try the recipe as listed before making such harsh judgements. Anyways, I also add a half shot of alcohol, flavored vodka and burbons work well, at holiday time to spiff it up a bit for gifts. :-) The recipe is is spot on!! Thanks for sharing it with us!!!
I have no idea how someone can use "less that half the sugar" and then proclaim the recipe "inedible" and "a mess". This is a standard recipe for Peanut butter cups or "Buckeyes". I have made these hundreds of times. Some recipes have slight variations in the ratios of peanut butter to powdered sugar to butter. Mine actually has more butter and sugar and vanilla. The amount of sugar is necessary to add substance to and thicken the peanut butter. Otherwise you have sweetened peanut butter. This is candy! It is supposed to have a lot of sugar. There is absolutely nothing wrong with the recipe.
OK, so the basic ingredients make sense, but I used less than half the sugar stated above, refrigerated the dough before making into balls, greased the foil, froze the candies for longer, and it was still a mess. It tasted good, but this recipe has a lot of issues. If you were to actually use the amount of sugar specified, they would be inedible. There are many specifics left out of this recipe. I wouldn't actually call it a recipe, just kind of a suggestion.