Chocolate Covered Everything

I love the holidays.  We buy a big bag of milk-chocolate morsels and I use it to cover EVERYTHING.

Pretzels?  Of course.

Ruffles chips?  Smeared with a dallop of peanut butter first, of course.

And then I found this Martha Stewart recipe for peanut butter pretzel balls.

INGREDIENTS

• 1 cup creamy peanut butter
• 1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
• 2 tablespoon unsalted butter, room-temperature
• 1 cup crushed pretzels
• 1 cup crushed potato chips (my addition- you can leave them out if you're so inclined)
• 5 ounces milk chocolate, melted (or, you know, how ever much it takes to cover these suckers)

 DIRECTIONS

VERDICT

These are to die for.  That's all I can say.  And I'm hungry just looking at the pictures.

As for the appearance of the balls themselves.... I have no idea how Martha makes hers so neat and round and nice looking.  I got two balls to look they way they should before hands were covered in peanut butter and pretzel pieces and the rest of them were blobs that barely stuck together.

But that's an issue to deal with on the next batch.  And based on how these things are flying out of their container, it won't be long before I need to make more.