Chocolate Peanut Butter Spider Balls
Get festive this Halloween with these tasty Chocolate Peanut Butter Spider Balls made with just 5 simple ingredients and zero baking required! The perfect sweet and salty treats that are easy to make and your kids will love!
Servings: 18 Servings
Ingredients
- 1 cup oat flour
- 1/2 cup peanut butter
- 1/4 cup honey
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 9 oz dark chocolate chips I used Lily's chocolate chips
- 2 teaspoons coconut oil
- 30-36 thin pretzels broken into pieces for "legs"
- 36 candy eyeballs
Instructions
- In a small bowl, combine oat flour, peanut butter, honey and vanilla, mixing well with a spatula until all combined and the dough is smooth. Cover and chill the dough in the fridge for at least 30 minutes or up to an hour as this will firm up the dough and make it easier to roll the balls.
- Using a small cookie scoop, roll the peanut butter mixture into 1-inch balls and place them on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. You should get about 18 balls.
- Pour chocolate chips and coconut oil into the pot of a double boiler, or you can simply use a metal or glass bowl on top of a saucepan with about an inch of water in it. As the water heats up, the chocolate will begin to melt and you should continually stir with a spatula until nice and smooth. You could also melt the chocolate in the microwave at 30 second intervals, stirring each time until melted.
- Dip each ball into the chocolate, making sure it is completely coated, and lift the balls out using a dipping fork (or regular fork) and place them back on the cookie sheet lined with parchment paper. Once all the peanut butter balls are coated in chocolate, please them in the freezer for about 30 minutes until chocolate is set and hardened.
- While the chocolate balls are setting, break apart the pretzels into smaller pieces to create the spider legs (you'll need about 108 pieces). Pour the leftover chocolate into a piping bag or Ziplock baggy and snip off a tiny corner on the end.
- When ready to decorate, pipe the chocolate onto the end of each pretzel piece and glue them onto the balls. You'll need 6 pretzel "legs" per ball (3 on each side) and you will also pipe the chocolate onto the candy eyes to stick those on as well.
- You can either serve these immediately or store them in the fridge until ready to enjoy as these chocolate peanut butter balls need to be kept cold as they will get really soft and melty.
Nutrition
Serving: 1spider ball | Calories: 140kcal | Carbohydrates: 18.8g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 8.3g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Sodium: 79.3mg | Fiber: 4.3g | Sugar: 3g