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chocolate covered peanut butter balls

Chocolate Peanut Butter Rice Krispies Footballs

Looking for the most delicious snack to serve for a game day? Well these chocolate peanut butter footballs are the perfect treat! Deliciously creamy and taste just like a peanut butter cup, and the best part is they require no baking at all!
Course Dessert, Snack
Cuisine American
Servings 24

Ingredients
  

  • 2 Cups Peanut Butter Crunchy or Smooth
  • 1/4 Cup Vegan Butter
  • 2/3 Cup Powdered Sugar Sifted (Can add more sugar if more sweetness is preferred )
  • 1 TSP Vanilla Extract
  • 4 Cups Puffed Rice Cereal
  • 1 TBSP Coconut Oil
  • 1 10 oz Bag Vegan Chocolate Chips

Frosted Football Stitches

  • 2 1/4 Cup Powdered Sugar Sifted
  • 1/2 TSP Vanilla Extract
  • 3 TBSP Non Dairy Milk

Instructions
 

  • In a large bowl, add your peanut butter and melted vegan butter together.
  • Stir in your vanilla
  • Add in sifted powdered sugar and mix togetherWith your hands, mix in the puffed rice cereal.
    picture of peanut butter rice krispies
  • Form about an inch long ball and pinch at the ends to form a small football shape.
    peanut butter rice krispies
  • Once all the footballs have been shaped, put them on a parchment lined cookie sheet and store in the fridge or freezer until the have hardened up.
  • In a small pot on the stove, heat the vegan chocolate chips up and stir the chocolate continuously until fully melted.
  • Add about a tablespoon of coconut oil and stir. Take one football at a time and dip in the chocolate with a spoon, rolling it around until footballs are fully covered in chocolate.
    chocolate covered peanut butter balls
  • After all footballs have been dipped, Lay them out onto a cookie rack until excess chocolate has dripped off the bottom. Transfer to a parchment lined cookie sheet.
  • Continue this process until all of them are finished and store in the fridge/freezer until your chocolate peanut butter footballs have hardened up.

Making the Icing Stitches

  • Using your mixer, add in your sifted powdered sugar, milk, and vanilla and mix on low speed.
  • Add the icing to a small piping bag with a small round tip.
  • Pipe a line vertically down the football, then add small lines across your one big vertical line.
    icing on top of chocolate covered footballs
  • That's it!
    chocolate covered peanut butter rice krispies footballs
Keyword dairy free, dessert recipe, game day, homemade, no bake, party snack, vegan