Chocolate Almond Butter Buddies

You can never have too many hor d'oeuvre recipes, so give Chocolate Almond Butter Buddies a try. For 31 cents per serving, this recipe covers 3% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. One serving contains 179 calories, 2g of protein, and 12g of fat. This recipe serves 42. Plenty of people made this recipe, and 484 would say it hit the spot. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 1 hour and 30 minutes. It is brought to you by Foodnetwork. If you have vanillan extract, shortening, graham cracker crumbs, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. Overall, this recipe earns a rather bad spoonacular score of 15%. If you like this recipe, take a look at these similar recipes: Almond Joy Muddy Buddies, Muddy Buddies® Double Almond Peppermint Bark, and Orange Creamsicle Buddies (Variation on Muddy Buddies).

Servings: 42

Preparation duration: 30 minutes

Cooking duration: 60 minutes

 

Ingredients:

1 cup almond butter (about 10 ounces)

4 to 4 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar

1/2 cup graham cracker crumbs (4 sheets)

1 12-ounce bag semisweet chocolate chips or 12 ounces chopped semisweet chocolate

1 tablespoon shortening

1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Equipment:

wooden skewers

toothpicks

stand mixer

baking sheet

double boiler

bowl

frying pan

skewers

Cooking instruction summary:

Special equipment: wooden skewers or toothpicks In a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream the butter and almond butter on medium-high speed until very smooth. Add the graham cracker crumbs and vanilla and beat again until smooth. On low speed, add 2 cups of the confectioners' sugar and beat to combine. Continue adding the sugar, about 1/2 cup at a time, until you can form a handful of the mixture into a slightly sticky ball. Refrigerate the dough just to firm it up a bit, 10 to 15 minutes. Roll the dough into 1-inch balls and put on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Refrigerate the dough again just to firm it up a bit, 10 to 15 minutes. Meanwhile, melt the chocolate chips and shortening in a double boiler or a bowl set over a pan of simmering water. Stir until smooth. Remove the bowl from the heat and let the chocolate cool and thicken while the buddies chill in the refrigerator. (You want the chocolate thick enough so you can dip and coat the buddies.) To dip them, poke a buddy with a wooden skewer or toothpick and swirl it in the melted chocolate, leaving a little of the almond butter mixture peeping out at the top. Drop it gently back onto the parchment-lined baking sheet. Once you've dipped all of the buddies, refrigerate them until the chocolate is set, about 30 minutes.

 

Step by step:


1. Special equipment: wooden skewers or toothpicks

2. In a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream the butter and almond butter on medium-high speed until very smooth.

3. Add the graham cracker crumbs and vanilla and beat again until smooth. On low speed, add 2 cups of the confectioners' sugar and beat to combine. Continue adding the sugar, about 1/2 cup at a time, until you can form a handful of the mixture into a slightly sticky ball. Refrigerate the dough just to firm it up a bit, 10 to 15 minutes.

4. Roll the dough into 1-inch balls and put on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Refrigerate the dough again just to firm it up a bit, 10 to 15 minutes.

5. Meanwhile, melt the chocolate chips and shortening in a double boiler or a bowl set over a pan of simmering water. Stir until smooth.

6. Remove the bowl from the heat and let the chocolate cool and thicken while the buddies chill in the refrigerator. (You want the chocolate thick enough so you can dip and coat the buddies.)

7. To dip them, poke a buddy with a wooden skewer or toothpick and swirl it in the melted chocolate, leaving a little of the almond butter mixture peeping out at the top. Drop it gently back onto the parchment-lined baking sheet.

8. Once you've dipped all of the buddies, refrigerate them until the chocolate is set, about 30 minutes.


Nutrition Information:

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178k Calories
2g Protein
11g Total Fat
17g Carbs
1% Health Score
Limit These
Calories
178k
9%

Fat
11g
18%

  Saturated Fat
4g
31%

Carbohydrates
17g
6%

  Sugar
14g
16%

Cholesterol
12mg
4%

Sodium
8mg
0%

Caffeine
6mg
2%

Get Enough Of These
Protein
2g
4%

Manganese
0.25mg
13%

Vitamin E
1mg
12%

Magnesium
33mg
8%

Copper
0.17mg
8%

Phosphorus
58mg
6%

Fiber
1g
6%

Iron
0.8mg
4%

Vitamin B2
0.07mg
4%

Zinc
0.46mg
3%

Calcium
30mg
3%

Potassium
99mg
3%

Vitamin A
139IU
3%

Vitamin B3
0.32mg
2%

Selenium
0.97µg
1%

Vitamin K
1µg
1%

Folate
4µg
1%

covered percent of daily need
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