Please, now before you say–“What the heck is an Peanut Butter Weeble?’ I’ll confess. I made it up.
But hear me out…
My intentions were good. Honestly. I found a wonderful sounding Peanut Butter Egg recipe. I made it and rolled eggs for about 400 years. Ok, ok…about an hour.
It felt longer.
Anyway, I put them in the fridge to set and then read the dreaded words
“dip in melted chocolate.”
I tried to remain calm.
You need to understand that some things just don’t work out all that well for a few of us. “Dip in melted chocolate” is one of those “things” for me.
Without sharing the gory and often humiliating details–let me just say, my history with chocolate dipping isn’t good.
Oh, my father–the professional CHEF could do it magnificently.
My sister can make her own dipped marshmallows—beautifully.
My daughters, I’m certain could pull it off without blinking.
But me…
truth is, I’m a melted chocolate, “why does it always fall into the pot” flunky. Ever seen “Fail Blog?” It’s sad to watch.
So, in the interest of being an Easter candy team player and trying my best to look like I did all this on purpose, I decided to use a new approach to dipping that I prefer to call plopping. Oh, it’s new.
My original hope was that the chocolate would just gracefully glide over the pb eggs and no one would be the wiser.
But alas…
As I said, dipping chocolate and I are not exactly on speaking terms.
Being a trooper, however–I forged ahead and when I glanced back at my ridiculous work, all those little eggs began to look like a tiny army of silly men with very bad toupees.
I’m afraid the next, very natural step,
could
not
be
helped.
Sorry about the blurriness…we were laughing.
You are welcome to call yours anything you like. Even something as civilized as Chocolate Peanut Butter Easter Eggs will be fine.
But for me and mine–we know a Weeble when we see one.
Chocolate Peanut Butter Easter Eggs
Ingredients:
1/4 lb. butter
8 oz. cream cheese
1/2 t. salt
1- 1/2 tsp. vanilla
1- 1/2 cup peanut butter
4 cups powdered sugar
Soften and mix cream cheese and butter. Add remaining ingredients and chill for 2 hours. Form into eggs and dip in melted chocolate…
…unless you can think of something more fun to do with them. hee hee
- ¼ lb. butter
- 8 oz. cream cheese
- ½ t. salt
- 1- ½ tsp. vanilla
- 1- ½ cup peanut butter
- 4 cups powdered sugar
- Soften and mix cream cheese and butter.
- Add remaining ingredients and chill for 2 hours.
- Form into eggs and dip in melted chocolate.
The best part? THEY’RE SO YUMMY! The WiiFit is going to have me for lunch. For like a week.
What a hoot!!! I love your weebles. They sound yummy & since April says they are, I’ll take her word for it. Since I don’t bake I’ve never dealt with dipping in chocolate. Except for using a chocolate fountain at our wedding. But I guess it’s not the same thing, huh?
LOL some days I glad I don’t live closer cause it looks like I could eat a whole batch of those with a smile on my face, but my hips and my baby would NOT be happy with me later! 🙂
Weebles wobble but they don’t fall down. Oh how I used to love my weebles! I had a weeble diving board with a trampoline underneath that you chucked the weebles onto. I want to eat one of yours. They look gorgeous.
“Oh… it’s all coming together.”
Oh how cute! You know what cracks me up is even before I continued down to read the rest of the post I thought to myself, “Wow, those little dudes look like they are wearing toupee’s.” And then you went on to say the same thing. 🙂 Great minds think alike my friend!!
These look very delicious, enjoy!
Oh, P.S. I heard you have easily weaned yourself off of Cheetos. Congratulations!
Another P.S. after seeing April at Macey’s on Friday evening and chatting about Jordan a bit we ended up taking him back to the ER that very evening. He finally is back home now. Arrived yesterday morning. So much to catch up on with you.
Have a great day my friend!!
You’re killing me smalls… Any minute now, I’m going to try a little bit of Peanut Butter and Chocolate! I hope that I’ve done enough preparing and that Baby Chomp is ok with that! 😉
Sooo… you should totally and completely have a link to MythBusters on the 2nd picture, because that PB Weeble looks like that one dude.
That is freaking hillarious! I would totally rather a PB Weeble than a boring old Easter egg anyday.
Yep, I’m with you there. ‘melted chocolate’ in a recipe always has the same affect on me.
But these weebles are great, very easy (with your improvised chocolate method!).
I’m definitely not going to make them. lol I’m eating ‘healthy’ for a little while yet, these would do me in. PB & choc is a fave.
Lyndi’s right, that Easter PB Weeble looks just like the guy from MythBusters! I want to eat him… and his friends. 🙂
These are super yummy! Love them!
o-o…….. should that be 1-1/2 cups peanut butter?? LOL surely not 12 cups?? tee hee…… love this Blog… full of fun stuff
Ohhh, dude. Good save! Twelve cups would totally be a peanut butter mess! Holy cow…It’s corrected now. Thank you, thank you.
No, it’s not the same, because with a chocolate fountain–there is somebody with brains behind the operation. We just kinda go with it around here.
Yes, well…I use to be quite thin, but I’m afraid it didn’t stick. :]
We ate them for WEEKS! It was obscene…really.
Yes, I miss you.
I’ll go see if I can find a picture of him.
I know…Easter eggs are so last year! Ha!
Someday I’ll get there–to the magical totally healthy place. I’m just on a slow boat…that’s all.
Well come on over, baby!
Glad you liked them. This is the place you know.
Is that 1 and a 1/2 cups or One Half cup of PB..?..
Oh and I am going to Make Santa Weebles with white chocolate Beards on them too..HEEHEE SO the tops will be hats….
It’s one and one half cups peanut butter–for all that peanut buttery goodness! :]
Please, PLEASE come back and show us your Santa Weebles! How perfect!
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