Pascha Recipes
Peanut Butter Easter Eggs
Yield: 12 dozen eggs (144 eggs)
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter
- 8 ounces cream cheese
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 pounds confectioners' sugar
- 2 1/4 cups peanut butter, chunky
Instructions
- Cream butter and cream cheese; add remaining ingredients and mix thoroughly.
- Roll into small eggs or balls.
- Place on cookie sheet on wax paper and freeze about 2 hours.
- For chocolate, use chocolate chips and a small bar of paraffin or chocolate coating melted on top of double boiler.
- After 2 hours remove peanut butter eggs from freezer and dip into melted chocolate.
- Place on wax paper to cool.