Ritz Bits Peanut Butter 3oz (85g)

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Start by whisking together the dry ingredients. Next, form a well in the center and add the peanut butter and water and stir until combined. Using your hands, knead the dough until smooth. If you’re not making them for Christmas, you can easily omit the red and green sprinkles. Or use red and white for Valentine’s, pastel for Easter, and so forth. But I gradually increased the quantity to slightly more than a tablespoon per cookie. Nice and generous in the peanut butter department, which we all love.

This process can get messy so I recommend laying down newspaper on your kitchen counter before you start dipping to make clean up as easy as the recipe itself. Use a double boiler method. I prefer to use a double boiler method for melting the chocolates – because it’s super reliable, ensures there’s no scorching. If you don’t own a double boiler, create one with a saucepan and heat-proof bowl. A microwave also works, just be sure to heat slowly and gently in intervals, stirring the chocolates often. Milk chocolate wafers or candy melts(almost any type of chocolate can be used for dipping. Milk chocolate chips, semi-sweet chocolate chips, dark chocolate chips, or chocolate almond bark can also be used with 2 tablespoons shortening or canola oil) Next, transfer the dough onto a lightly floured surface and knead several times. Shape the dough into a rectangle shape, cover in plastic wrap, and refrigerate it for an hour.You know what’s even harder to believe? I taught Debbie’s daughter Amanda in Kindergarten almost 20 years ago now and Amanda just had a sweet baby last year!)

Melt gently. Take special care to melt the chocolates gently, so they don’t scorch. Because scorched chocolate is ruined chocolate. So sad.

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If you need a ridiculously easy, no-bake dessert for a party, holiday cookie exchange, or just have a spur of the moment craving for chocolate and peanut butter, which happens quite often to me, this is a perfect recipe. My experimentation with this festive treat led to two variations of filling flavors.Both flavors turned out so good! I think the caramel ones taste like a caramel Twix bar, and the peanut butter ones taste like a white chocolate Reese’s peanut butter cup. I can’t decide which I like better. You will have to try them and let me know which is your favorite! White chocolate wafers or candy melts(white chocolate chips can also be used with 2 tablespoons shortening or canola oil)