Start by finely chopping the cookies…
Combine with cream cheese and roll into balls…
And dip in chocolate… easy!
Nutter Butter Balls
1 pkg. Nutter Butter cookies (broken… use cookie with the cream center)
1 8oz. package cream cheese (softened)
chocolate bark
1. Finely crush all but 5 cookies in a food processor or place them in a ziploc bag and crush into a fine consistency.
2. Combine with cream cheese. Use the back of a large spoon to help mash the two together.
3. Roll the mixture into 1" balls and place on wax paper covered cookie sheet.
4. Melt chocolate as directed on the package and then dip balls into chocolate, tap off extra and set aside on wax paper covered cookie sheet to dry.
5. Once dry, refrigerate and enjoy!
Makes about 30 balls.
66 comments:
Very interesting. I bet these are delicious! Any excuse to buy Nutter Butters and sneak a few for myself....
These are sinful!! I love peanut butter and chocolate...
These do look good, however I think I am definitely going to have to try the Oreo version.
Mmmm...peanut butter & choc are my favorite combination:) Amazing photo!
Thanks so much everyone!
Simple and delicious!
I love it!
Ahhhhhhh, Nutter Butters are my favorite and now you just made them even better! It's the perfect easy recipe. Thanks.
You can't go wrong with peanut butter and chocolate. Yumm.
Thanks cindy lo
make and takes - it easy and you're welcome.
cookie baker lynn - you are sooo right!
I just happened across your board this morning, and have been reading all of your archieves! I love your blog - and I am terribly hungry for something chocolatey and sweet!
This peanut butter balls look so good.
Thanks Kat. I'm glad you like it here. Come back any time for a chocolate fix!
Wow, these look incredibly delicious. I love chocolate and anything that goes with it. n_n
Wonderful! Looks so easy too. Thanks for sharing. Ok if I share your recipe on one of my other cooking boards?
Dawn
jamezu - thanks, me too.
Dawn - sure, just reference/link back to me if you don't mind.
perfection! Today's Valentine's project! Um...darest I ask why the recipe calls for "one package, minus five, Nutter Butter cookies"?
anonymous - thanks and I made this recipe up based on an oreo truffle recipe that suggested not using all of the cookies. It might work just as well with all of them, though.
anonymous again...oh my goodness!!! I dipped them in 62% semisweet cacao...oh, my goodness!!!
Happy Valentine's Day, and thank you, Bakerella! maureen
I'm glad you like them, Maureen.
I made the oreo ones last week and tonight I'm making the nutter butter ones. SO GOOD. I only dip the tops in chocolate b/c I'm lazy and it's easier. Then I sprinkle crumbs on the top. They are much loved!
I'll remember that the next time I'm in a hurry. Thanks.
Ok seriously, YUM!
It's been a long time since I've seen Nutter Butter cookies. *wondering where I've been*
I just discovered your blog and all I can say is "Wow! It looks great and you make it look so easy!" I'm hooked and will be checking back to see what other yummy creations you come up with. Thanks for sharing you creative talent with all of us.
darla and jillytacy - thanks!
Posting from Athens, Greece, I really have to say your blog is a must-see! Unfortunately, no Nutter Butter cookies in Greece, so I used vanilla crean filled cookies. Is it possible to be more specific on the cookies quantity? For instance, tell me the net weight of their package? I really thing I used less cookies than I should. Either way, they were delicious and didn't make it to see another day...
I wish I was posting from Greece. :)
Next time I go to the store, I'll give get the info, but in the meantime, I think this is the size package I used.
http://www.nabiscoworld.com/Brands/ProductInformation.aspx?BrandKey=nutterbutter&Site=1&Product=4400004631
I see... I used less than half of it, well, weight concerned. And I was wondering why the balls were so soft and sort of lost their shape easily... Thanks a lot!
Checked at the store today. There are 32 cookies in one package. So I must have used 27. But they are somewhat oblong and not round like oreo sandwich cookies.
I was pondering these and it occurred to me you could amp up the peanut butter flavor by replacing half the cream cheese with peanut butter. Ooh, and decorate the tops with a peanut so you can tell them apart form the oreo ones on a plate.
Of course, we don't have Nutter Butters here in Canada, but we do have maple leaf cookies... hmm...maple and white chocolate... I might just have to go to the grocery store :)
debidee - I like your idea with the peanut butter, I may ave to try that next time. And maple leaf cookies sound good. Thanks!
Not Martha sent me over here (congrats on Cupcake Week!) and these look like the best things I have ever seen. Why oh why am I on a diet right now?!?
Cheers!
I replaced 2oz of the cream cheese with 1/3 cup peanut butter and added a 1/4 cup chopped peanuts. They were fantastic and had a great texture. Thanks for the great recipe.
Mary T. - thanks for stoppin by!
E - that sounds great. Thanks for the info.
Oh my gosh...just found your website!! Love it! My husband is NUTS...pun intended....about PB and chocolate. I just told him about this recipe and he told me to please print it out!
kendalls mom 3 - that's cute. Hope he likes it.
I just made these and they're so delicious! Thanks so much for the recipe :)
jenna - you are welcome.
I also make these its a great recipe.Never did Oreo version.but want to try them.Thank you so much!
hugs ginger
The oreos are knockouts!
I'm going to try these this year with girl scout cookies :-)
Let me know how they come out.
Just got finished making your Nutter Butter Bite Size treats. Simply delicious! However, I noticed that they seemed to "weep" a little while I waiting for the chocolate to harden. I think it was actually some of the oil of the peanut butter in the cookies and I'm sure it wasn't the chocolate. The only thing I did differently was to put the balls of cream cheese and cookie in the refrigerator while I got the chocolate ready. Anything to prevent this? Did any others experience this?
brislenn - I didn't put mine in the fridge, so I don't know if that could be the cause or not. What kind of chocolate did you use?
Why do you crush all *but 5* of the nutter butters?
Proportions mainly. A similar recipe I used for oreos did not use the entire package, so I followed suit here. You can probably get away with the entire thing though.
Also, I had to eat a few a long the way. :)
I am sure the peanut butter truffles you made are delicious but you have to try to make the melted chocolate with really good semi sweet dark chocolate; it made a world of difference. The taste was devine! I took a baking class two weeks ago and made these delicious truffles with real chocolate not candy melts - see how it turned out at http://www.examiner.com/x-1490-Broward-County-Restaurants-Examiner
Oh, I love dark chocolate. The ones I've made without using the candy coatings just seem to melt on my fingers as soon as I touch them though.
Mercken's makes a dark chocolate candy coating that's pretty good btw.
Once again, these little guys saved my day (and my nameday). I made them for a treat at the office and they were an absolute hit. I used strawberry flavored cookies but the impact was equally smashing. Zillions of thanks!
Ευθυμία Δεσποτάκη - Zillions of Yays!!! Glad they were a hit.
I made these and to me they LOOK better than they taste. Don't get me wrong, they are tasty, but not so good that I can't not eat them. They are still sitting in my fridge and they aren't "calling" to me. LOL I like things to be a little sweeter. BUT, my husband adored them and they are calling to him!
I am going to try the Oreo cookie one next.
Amanda - I totally agree with you. But, I think you will like the oreo ones better.
I've got a great recipe for Peanut Butter Truffles that's a light and smooth peanut butter ganache on the inside if anyone is interested. Definitely a winning recipe in my family!
Lauren, pb ganache sounds fantastic. Would you share?
I totally want to try these nutter butter balls. I like oreos, but I LOVE nutter butters. Glad I found your blog, Bakerella!!
Lauren - sounds yummy
Anonymous - ditto.
Thank you so much for posting all these great recipes! Everything we have tried has been a hit. We made these Nutter Butter treats for Valentine's Day for my daughter's soccer team. The moms were upset that I only gave them to the kids. hahaha I am sad it took me so long to get around to making them because they are our new favorite treat.
BTW, I found the cookies are cheaper at Target than the grocery.
Great and thanks for the tip Lovey!
I AM SO MAKING THESE!!! Hello...peanut butter with chocolate! YUMMY!
Those look really good!
Liesl and Kevin - And, they are easy!
I'm going to attempt to make these as a pop using a 2 3/4" cookie cutter in the shape of a Number 3. Think it will work? I'll be sure to let you know but would appreciate any thoughts or tips you might think of off the bat. I'm scared . . . but courageous (or stupid) enough to try!
You are courageous. Let me know how it goes.
Hello Oh wonderful baker! Can u offer any tips for dipping these in the chocolate-i see u didn't get those "feet" or puddles of chocolate at the bottom. What;'s your secret?? Thanks!
If it puddles a lot, immediately draw a separation line with a toothpick, that way it can be broken off easily when it dries.
Or tap off the excess chocolate more before you lay on the wax paper.
Super easy. I was eating these 45 min. after I started making them. I didn't use cream cheese (I sorta hate cream cheese), and just used peanut butter and powdered sugar.They lost shape a little under the dipping chocolate, but I think if I lessen the peanut butter and up the powdered sugar they'd be perfect next time (I used 8 oz of peanut butter). But they're fine now -- and I just keep them in the fridge.
I'm sure they taste good that way too.
I did them again last weekend and used less peanut butter. I used about a 3/4 cup of peanut butter, maybe a 1/4-1/2 cup of powdered sugar and a 1/8-1/4 cup of ground peanuts. They were perfect, completely peanutty and held their shape in the melted chocolate. And they still had that fun crystally nutter butter texture. I think these are way better than the Oreo ones. I made those last weekend too, and I still think these are tops.
Wow! Of course being Canadian I could not try these but just wanted to let you know that I have made the Oreo version as well as a Maple version. Please check out my blog for more...
http://heatherscreativebug.blogspot.com/2009/05/dear-bakerella-i-sure-do-like-your-blog.html
Thank you so much for sharing!
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