Stop Everything and Make This Reese’s Peanut Butter Ball Dessert
This Reese’s peanut butter ball is the perfect dessert!
Use your leftover Halloween candy to make this dessert!
No more wasting leftover Halloween candy! Consider creating a Reese’s Pieces dessert version of the classic cheese ball dip using peanut butter as a fun twist – perfect for parties or any occasion. It’s super easy to make, yet looks so fancy, and makes such a yummy treat!
The peanut butter chocolate combination is so irresistible and can be made year-round, but it’s a clever idea to use up leftover candy from Halloween. I’m sure there are some lingering pieces around your house just waiting to be transformed into a showstopping dessert!
A few recipe tips when making a Reese’s peanut butter ball:
- Don’t have Reese’s pieces candy? You could always use M&M’s candy instead, and festive colors would be fun for different holidays, like the red and green ones. You could also roll the ball in chocolate chips and peanut butter chips instead as another option.
- Get creative with dippers. I broke apart pieces of ice cream waffle bowls and served up graham cracker dippers too. You could use graham crackers, chocolate graham crackers, vanilla wafer cookies, or even apple slices would be yummy!
- This is a great dessert to prep ahead of time. Make the peanut butter ball a day ahead of time and keep it wrapped in the fridge, then simply coat in the Reese’s Pieces before setting it out to serve.
Reese's Peanut Butter Ball
yield: 8 SERVINGS
prep time: 15 MINUTES
total time: 15 MINUTES
This dessert version of a cheese ball with peanut butter candy will be a giant hit for any occasion or party!
Ingredients
- 8 oz. cream cheese, softened
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 1 cup peanut butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar
- 2 Reese's Peanut Butter cups, chopped
- 1 1/2 cups Reese's Pieces candy
- graham cracker sticks and waffle bowl pieces for dipping
Directions
1
Add the softened cream cheese, brown sugar, peanut butter, vanilla extract, and powdered sugar into a large mixing bowl. Use a hand mixer to combine until smooth. Stir in the chopped peanut butter cups with a spoon.
2
Mold the mixture into a ball shape, and wrap it in plastic wrap. Place it in the fridge for at least an hour so it can firm up.
3
Decorate the cheese ball with Reese's pieces candy around the outside. Serve with desired dippers such as graham cracker sticks, pieces of waffle bowls, apples, etc. Enjoy!
Truth: You’ll love this treat to pieces, I promise!
In fact, it’s a little hard to stop eating this peanut butter chocolate goodness. LOL! I think it tastes similar to peanut butter cookie dough or peanut butter cheesecake without all the effort. It’s a fun activity to have the kids help decorate.
What a beautiful-looking dessert cheese ball. Enjoy!
Try this cream cheese caramel apple spread next!
OMG…. please stop with these amazing recipes! This looks great and easy. Actually, please don’t stop. You all are the best!
Lol thanks Scamp! Enjoy ❤️
Thx, Lina. Another great recipe for my 2 boys to make.I will let them pick there favorite topping,and dippers from your suggestions..This activity will be perfect ,when they are out of school for the holidays..keep up the good work and God bless.
Oh I love that idea! Enjoy ❤️
Brilliant!!! I’m absolutely making this for Thanksgiving. Now should I serve as an a appetizer or dessert…….hmm…..
Awesome – that’ll be great!
What a beautiful and delicious recipe for your Halloween or Thanksgiving get together! Thanks for sharing.
Great! I agree and so easy – yay! Thanks for stopping by!
OMG I am the peanut butter queen! I can’t go a day without it. Looking at this recipe gets me very excited! I will have to make this for sure. Thanks for sharing 🙂
Yay! Thanks Dawn you’ll love it! ❤️
Love this idea!
So…maybe I should stop eating the Reese’s that are currently on my desk and I’ve been munching on while viewing your site….hmmm. Sounds like a fun recipe to try!
Oh haha that candy sure is yum! ❤️👌
I feel like I’d eat all the reeses before I could get them in the blender :/ Kids don’t get that candy at my house but it’s not for lack of purchasing it, haha!
Ha! Yes it’s temping for sure so buy extra! Ha
I love peanut butter and chocolate! I think I might take this recipe and use it to make mini balks and dip them in chocolate. Just like people do with the Oreos.
Oh fun I like that! Thanks Lisa!
That sounds great!
It’d be good like this but a bunch of mini rolled balls and everyone could take their own!
Oh I like that! 🙌 thanks Shannon!
I’m hosting a Halloween Party, how perfect is this!! Thank you for the post!!
SO PERFECT!! Yay – enjoy ❤️
Yummy…
❤️ YESS!!
I’d love to make this for a football party, sounds soooo delicious. But my all time favorite candy is reese pieces so , ill prolly use m&ms like you suggested. Otherwise no one else would get any of the toppings LOL! 😉 Thanks for the inspiring recipe.
Tried this out, it was pretty delicious overall! Next time I would do 1/4 cup powdered sugar, I feel like it stood out too much. Really appreciate the recipe Lina! You are amazing!
Oh thanks! I’m glad you enjoyed ❤️
Glad I just read through the recipe again. I saw 2 cups of Reese’s peanut butter cups not 2 Reese’s peanut butter cups🤦♀️
Omg, I just made it last night and thought it was just 2 of the cups!! Lol. Let’s see how it goes…
How many days ahead can this be made?
This would be so cute if somehow you can make it look like a turkey!
Oh I love that! Maybe with some frosting. 👏
Outside of using just melting chocolates (Colors and options abound!), you could try skewers covered in various flavors of fruit leather (thin and colorful) shaped like tail feathers and arranged in the arc pattern. A quick search also showed marshmallows dipped in various colored (red, yellow, orange) sanding sugar and stacked on skewers. As for the head, I would go with a decorated chocolate covered Nutter Butter cookie with a candy corn beak! Sigh…makes me miss kiddie parties.
I can’t wait to bring this to Thanksgiving Dinner!
Oh yay enjoy!
How bad could peanut butter,brown sugar and cream cheese be!?!?!! Yum! Definitely taking this to a Halloween party I’m going to
Can someone please make this and send it over to me this morning?!? 😋🥜🍫🥰
In fact, if you bring it over, Lina, I’ll have the tea kettle ready and we can chat as we drink tea and eat the Reese’s ball (there will be no left overs so no need to tell my family 😂). I would love it!!!!
Ohh my YES! I am in! <3
Yammmi 😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋
This is so good! It’s perfect for a Halloween chili dinner/potluck, but this year, it’s going on the Christmas buffet! Serving it with graham crackers is very nostalgic and homey. Thank you!!!
You’re welcome, Corri T! Graham crackers sound delicious! Enjoy! 🎄❤️