Peanut Butter Bites
"This is a favorite with all of my children!"
submitted by: Julie Parker
serves: 36 or more
Ingredients:
1 package crushed graham crackers
2 cubes (1 cup) melted margarine or butter
1 cup peanut butter
4 cups powdered sugar, more or less
1 bag 12 oz chocolate chips, semi sweet or milk chocolate
sprinkles if desired
Directions:
Line jelly roll pan with wax paper. Mix crackers, butter and peanut butter. Gradually add powdered sugar. Stop adding when clumpy, not dry and crumbly and not real gooey-just clumpy, so you can press it together.
Dump it all over your jelly roll dish. Press it together evenly on pan, cover with wax paper. Using rolling pin on top of the wax paper, roll it all firmly together.
Melt chocolate chips. I place them in microwave safe dish with 1 tablespoon shortening. I cook on high for 45 seconds, then stir chips and then cook 20- 40 seconds longer, stir again. If you over melt the chocolate chips they go dry and gross!
Remove the top wax paper from pressed peanut butter mixture. Spread melted chips on top of peanut butter mixture. Sprinkle with sprinkles. We use orange at Halloween and green and red at Christmas, or just leave the sprinkles off they still taste great!
Chill for about 90 minutes, good to cut into serving sizes after 60-90 minutes, if you wait much longer they tend to crack and break when you cut them.
