Recipe

Ok gang, as requested, here is Mamasan's recipe for her traditional and now-famous Peanut Butter Balls that not only taste great, but provide endless holiday entertainment as Amy and Reverend Dave spend all their free time trying to figure out how to steal each other's stash. Oh, don't get me wrong--they'll steal peanut butter balls from anyone--they can easily spot a target of opportunity. But they both derive some sort of perverse pleasure from shoplifting each other's personal allotment.

For one batch: (I usually double this, though)

1 1/2 sticks butter/margarine.

1 lb. powdered sugar

2 Heaping Table Spoons peanut butter

1 pkg. chocolate chips

1/4 slice of paraffin wax - yes WAX

Melt butter in microwave. Add to powdered sugar, add peanut butter. Mix well. Refrigerate till chilled. Take out, roll balls size of walnut and place on cookie sheet. Chill again in freezer.

Put chocolate chips in a Pyrex bowl (or the like) over a pot w/approx 1-1 1/2 cups of water (use double boiler if available). Boil, then lower temp to Low. Don't let water touch bowl.

Melt wax in small pan. (does not microwave well). Once it is completely melted, add it to the melting chocolate chips. Stir. Keep stirring. Once the chocolate mixture is melted, drop a few balls in and coat w/spoon. Roll them up the side of bowl with the spoon to remove, leaving excess in bowl, place the now-coated peanut butter balls back on the cookie sheet.

When finished refrigerate or freeze again to set up. Place into containers later for storing in fridge/freezer.

ENJOY!

Hope I didn't leave any steps out... heheheh...

Yep, it's a fairly simple recipe and lots of fun if you have a couple of people working on it together. I've heard of some uncouth louts from Ohio making the same candy except leaving a small portion of each piece 'naked'--a small circle of the filling is *not* covered in chocolate--and calling them 'Buckeyes'.

Heathens.

They might have a decent football team back in Ohio, but their candy is f*cked up. Would you want to eat an M&M if you could see the inside? I didn't think so...

Mikey