Nutter Butter Truffles bring chocolate and peanut butter together in an easy to make 5-ingredient recipe.
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No-bake Nutter Butter Truffles are made using only 5 ingredients to form a rich, sweet chocolate peanut butter cookie ball.
Nutter Butter Truffles
Our 5 ingredient Nutter Butter Truffles recipe is so easy to make using fine crumbs of peanut butter cookies combined with cream cheese, and vanilla to form the filling and melted chocolate mixed with shortening for the candy coating.
Making these no-bake Nutter Butter balls is as simple as scooping the 3-ingredient nutter butter batter, rolling it into round balls, coating each in melted candy, and sprinkling them with cookie crumbs.
Why We Love This Nutter Butter Balls Recipe
- Quick and easy to make without cooking.
- Uses 5 simple ingredients.
- Single-serving snacks are pre-portioned and portable.
- Nutter Butter truffle recipes upgrade a classic sandwich cookie into a deliciously decadent sweet truffle treat.
- Perfect for a holiday party, dessert platter, cookie exchange, or gift giving.
Nutter Butter Truffles Ingredients
- Nutter Butters cookies
- Cream cheese
- Vanilla extract
- Ghirardelli chocolate melting wafers
- Crisco shortening
Substitutions and Additions
- Make With Candy Melts: You can substitute the chocolate melting wafers for brown or black candy melts. However, the chocolate is much more delicious when paired with peanut butter!
- Decorate Your Dessert: Before the chocolate coating begins to set, you can top your truffles with Nutter Butter crumbs, colorful sprinkles, crushed nuts, a drizzle of melted creamy peanut butter, or sea salt.
Recommended Tools
- Large cookie sheet
- Parchment paper
- Mixing bowl
- Electric hand or stand mixer
- 1-½ inch cookie scoop
- Microwave safe bowl
- Forks or dipping tools
How to Make Nutter Butter Truffles
- Form The Filling: Combine the crushed cookies, cream cheese, and vanilla until the mixture is “dough-like”.
- Scoop: Scoop the mixture and roll into round balls. Chill in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
- Melt: Melt the wafers in the microwave for 1 minute, stir, and add the crisco shortening. Microwave for an additional 30 seconds until the wafers are silky smooth.
- Dip And Decorate: Dip and roll each ball in the melted chocolate to cover completely. Top with a large pinch of cookie crumbs.
- Serve: Cool in the fridge for an additional 30 minutes before serving. Enjoy!
How to Soften Cream Cheese
I recommend you take your cream cheese out of the refrigerator for at least an hour before making your truffle mixture. Allowing it to soften to room temperature makes for the creamiest of fillings.
In the case that you can’t let it soften over time, you can unwrap the package and microwave it on a plate in 15-second intervals, turning often, until soft. Be sure not to overheat it or it will melt.
- Ghirardelli melting wafers are the easiest to work with and yield a very smooth finish!
- You will have leftover melted chocolate in this recipe. However, I find it always helpful to have more melted chocolate than needed to better “dunk” the balls in to cover them completely. Also, the more melted chocolate you have, the longer heat holds inside the dish, making the chocolate the right consistency for longer.
- When rounding your truffles, be sure to wash your hands a few times in between. The cookie mixture will best form balls when rolled with clean hands.
- Keep truffles stored inside the refrigerator to avoid sweating or cracking.
- These peanut butter truffles are best served chilled.
- Use full fat cream cheese for the results.
- You can add a teaspoon of sea salt to the nutter butter mixture for an added flavor.
Tips For Making The Best Nutter Butter Truffles
How to Store Nutter Butter Truffles
- To Store: Stored your truffles in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 2 weeks.
- To Freeze: You can store your truffles in the freezer in an airtight container for 3 to 4 months. Defrost them in the fridge for a few hours before serving.
More Easy Peanut Butter Recipes
Other Easy Truffle Recipes
- Brownie Truffles
- Rainbow Cake Truffles
- Pumpkin Spice Truffles
- Cookie Dough Truffles
- Lemon Oreo Truffles
- Raspberry Truffles
- Snickerdoodle Truffles
- Gingerbread Truffles
Nutter Butter Truffles
Serves — 18
Nutter Butter Truffles bring chocolate and peanut butter together in an easy to make 5-ingredient recipe.
Prep Time 25 minutes
Chill Time 2 hours
Total Time 2 hours 25 minutes
Ingredients
- 2 cups finely crushed Nutter Butters cookies divided
- 8 ounce block of cream cheese softened at room temperature
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 10 ounce bag ghirardelli chocolate melting wafers
- 1 tablespoon crisco shortening
Instructions
- Prepare a large cookie sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
- In a medium mixing bowl mix together the crushed nutter butter cookies (reserving about ¼ cup for garnishing the final product), cream cheese and vanilla using an electric hand or stand mixer. Blend until the mixture is “dough-like”.
- Using a 1-½ inch cookie scoop, scoop the mixture and roll into 1 – 1-½ inch balls. Use the palms of your hands to smooth and round each ball. Do this until the mixture is completely used. See notes for additional tips.
- Place each truffle ball on the sheet of parchment paper and place inside the refrigerator for 1 hour.
- About 5-10 minutes before the chilling time is complete, begin to prepare your melting chocolate. Place the wafers in a microwave safe bowl and heat on 50% power or on defrost mode for 1 minute. Stir with a fork and add the crisco shortening. Return to the microwave for an additional 30 seconds. Repeat until the wafers are silky smooth. See notes for additional tips.
- Using two forks or dipping tools, dip each truffle ball into the melted chocolate, covering it completely. Roll the ball, working it into the chocolate to cover it completely.
- Place each chocolate covered truffle on parchment paper and top with a large pinch of the nutter butter crumbs. Repeat this process for each truffle, working one at a time.
- Place inside the refrigerator and allow to cool for an additional 30 minutes before serving.
Jenn’s Notes
Storage:
- To Store: Stored your truffles in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 2 weeks.
- To Freeze: You can store your truffles in the freezer in an airtight container for 3 to 4 months. Defrost them in the fridge for a few hours before serving.
- Ghirardelli melting wafers are the easiest to work with and yield a very smooth finish!
- You will have left over melted chocolate in this recipe. However, I find it always helpful to have more melted chocolate than needed to better “dunk” the balls in to cover them completely. Also, the more melted chocolate you have, the longer heat holds inside the dish, making the chocolate the right consistency for longer.
- When rounding your truffles, be sure to wash your hands a few times in between. The cookie mixture will best form balls when rolled with clean hands.
- Keep truffles stored inside the refrigerator to avoid sweating or cracking.
- These peanut butter truffles are best served chilled.
- Use full fat cream cheese for the results.
- You can add a teaspoon of sea salt to the nutter butter mixture for an added flavor.
Nutrition Info
Calories: 159kcal | Carbohydrates: 21g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 7g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 2g | Trans Fat: 0.1g | Cholesterol: 1mg | Sodium: 171mg | Potassium: 32mg | Sugar: 11g | Vitamin A: 6IU | Calcium: 40mg | Iron: 0.02mg
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