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Chocolate Peanut Butter Balls

$0.89for 430 minServes 24

Peanut butter, sugar, nuts, and cereal form chilled balls coated with melted semisweet chocolate and butter.

What it costs

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Ingredient	Amount	Cost
	Peanut butter, 9 oz$0.14/oz typical	9 oz	$1.26Typical price
	Nuts and seeds, 2.25 oz$0.70/oz typical	2.25 oz	$1.57Typical price
	Cereal and granola, 0.75 oz$0.20/oz typical	0.75 oz	$0.15Typical price
	Chocolate chips and baking chocolate, 4 oz$0.45/oz typical	4 oz	$1.80Typical price
	Butter, 0.5 oz$0.40/oz typical	0.5 oz	$0.20Typical price
Total for the servings shown		$5.34

Swaps

Swap butter for margarine and vegan butterabout $0.15/oz less at typical prices

Pantry staples you likely have

Sugar and brown sugar

Not included in the cost.

30 minstart to table
Easydifficulty
24servings as written
$typical cost tier

American Vegetarian Kid-friendly Budget Desserts

Typical price

$0.22 per serving$0.89 for 4

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Ingredients

1 cup peanut butter
1 cup icing sugar
1/2 cup chopped nuts
1/2 cup rice krispies
4 oz semisweet chocolate
1 tbsp butter

Steps

Stir the peanut butter, icing sugar, chopped nuts, and rice cereal in a bowl.
Shape the mixture into 24 balls and place them on a baking sheet.
Melt the chocolate and butter in a small saucepan over low heat for 3 minutes.
Dip each ball in the melted chocolate and return it to the baking sheet.
Chill the coated balls for 5 minutes before serving.

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