Enjoy Halloween-style dessert anytime with these pumpkin shaped candies made using peanut butter chips, pretzel twists and vanilla frosting.
Peanut Butter Pumpkins
- Prep Time 30 min
- Total 2 hr 30 min
- Servings 36
- Ingredients 4
Ingredients
- 1 bag (10 oz) peanut butter chips (1 2/3 cups)
- 1 tub (16 oz) Betty Crocker™ Rich & Creamy Vanilla Frosting
- 1/4 teaspoon orange paste icing color (not liquid food color)
- 12 small pretzel twists or thin pretzel sticks, broken into 1/2-inch pieces
Instructions
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Step1Line cookie sheet with waxed paper. In 2-quart saucepan, melt peanut butter chips over low heat, stirring constantly, until smooth. Remove from heat. Stir in frosting and icing color until well blended. Refrigerate until cool enough to handle, about 1 hour.
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Step2Shape mixture into 1 1/4-inch balls; flatten slightly. Use edge of rubber spatula to make grooves in each ball to resemble pumpkin. Press 1 pretzel piece into top of each for stem; place on cookie sheet. Refrigerate at least 1 hour before serving. Store in covered container in refrigerator.
Nutrition
100
Calories
4g
Total Fat
0g
Protein
15g
Total Carbohydrate
14g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Candy
- Calories
- 100
- Calories from Fat
- 40
- Total Fat
- 4g
- 6%
- Saturated Fat
- 3 1/2g
- 18%
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 0mg
- 0%
- Sodium
- 15mg
- 1%
- Potassium
- 15mg
- 0%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 15g
- 5%
- Dietary Fiber
- 0g
- 0%
- Sugars
- 14g
- Protein
- 0g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 0%
- 0%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 0%
- 0%
- Iron
- 0%
- 0%
Exchanges:
1/2 Starch; 0 Fruit; 1/2 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 1 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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