{"id":158,"date":"2009-12-20T19:22:36","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T02:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookingwithcandra.com\/blog\/?p=158"},"modified":"2012-03-23T13:01:24","modified_gmt":"2012-03-23T20:01:24","slug":"peanut-butter-bon-bons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookingwithcandra.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/20\/peanut-butter-bon-bons\/","title":{"rendered":"Peanut Butter Bon Bons"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"method-ingredients-container\">\n<div class=\"method\">\n<p>These tasty little treats are a holiday tradition around our house. Christmas wouldn&#8217;t be the same without peanut butter bon bons to enjoy and share. They are one of those things that are a bit time consuming, but well worth the effort.<!--more--> This recipe makes a large batch and they freeze well. Why not get the whole family involved and have some fun!<\/p>\n<h2>Directions:<\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"yield\">Yield: approx. 75 (depending on size)<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Combine rice krispies and icing sugar in a large mixing bowl and set aside.<\/li>\n<li>Melt margarine and peanut butter over low heat in a large saucepan, stirring constantly.<\/li>\n<li>Pour melted peanut butter and margarine over rice krispie mixture and stir until combined.<\/li>\n<li>Form into balls, about 1 inch in diameter (1 Tablespoon) and place on a large, wax paper lined cooking sheet. Place in the freezer until hard.<\/li>\n<li>Melt chocalte chips and parowax or chocolate wafers in the top of a double boiler and stir until smooth.<\/li>\n<li>Using a fork, dip each peanut butter ball in the chocolate, tap on the side of the pan to remove excess chocolate and place back on cooking sheet.<\/li>\n<li>When all bon bons are coated in chocolate, place them in the refrigerator to set and then store in an airtight container in or out of the fridge. I always put them in freezer bags and store them in the freezer.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ingredients\">\n<h2>Ingredients:<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"ingredients-list\">\n<li class=\"ingredients-list-alt\">2 cups of Peanut Butter (smooth or crunchy)<\/li>\n<li>1 cup of Margarine or Butter<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredients-list-alt\">4 and 1\/2 cups of Icing Sugar<\/li>\n<li>3 cups of Rice Krispies<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredients-list-alt\">3 cups of Chocolate Chips or Chocolate Wafers<\/li>\n<li>1 tbsp of Parowax (Only required if using chocolate chips)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"related-video\">\n<div class=\"video\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"video-border\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wzxd4BGOeH0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These tasty little treats are a holiday tradition around our house. Christmas wouldn&#8217;t be the same without peanut butter bon bons to enjoy and share. They are one of those things that are a bit time consuming, but well worth the effort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,53,3,20],"tags":[57,27,60,9,33,59,6,58,565],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-desserts","category-holiday","category-recipes","category-video","tag-bon-bons","tag-directions","tag-holiday-treats","tag-ingredients","tag-peanut-butter","tag-peanut-butter-bon-bons","tag-recipe","tag-rice-krispies","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookingwithcandra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookingwithcandra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookingwithcandra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookingwithcandra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookingwithcandra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookingwithcandra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1612,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookingwithcandra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions\/1612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookingwithcandra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookingwithcandra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookingwithcandra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}