Baking Cart Nutter Butter Truffles



Ingredients:

  • 1 batch of peanut butter cookies (1 baking sheet, or about 12 cookies)

  • ½ bag chocolate chips (of a 270 g bag)

  • Peanuts, for garnish

  • ½ brick cream cheese


Instructions:

  1. Put 1 tray of peanut butter cookies into large ziplock bag

  2. Close bag and crush cookies

  3. Pour cookie crumbs into mixing bowl

  4. In a small bowl, microwave ½ brick cream cheese for 30 sec

  5. Add cream cheese to cookie crumbs and mix together

  6. In rounded tablespoons, scoop onto baking sheet in balls

  7. Freeze for a few minutes

  8. Pour peanuts into ziplock bag and crush  into crumbs

  9. Melt ½ bag chocolate chips in microwave for 1 min

  10. Stir chocolate chips, then roll cookie balls in melted chocolate

  11. Sprinkle peanut crumbs on top

  12. Freeze


Yield: 20 truffles


Source: WALES member baking cart recipes


Description:

Before the pandemic, one of the WALES members used to run a baking cart. She would make an item per week and sell what she could at the agency's main office every Friday. Whatever wasn't purchased would be frozen and available for sale the next time she rolled out her cart, as well as whatever new product she created that week. In this way, she developed an expanding menu.

She never returned to this after the pandemic. When I was looking through cooking files, I ran across her entire library of baking cart recipes and asked if I could use one. She enthusiastically said yes, but refused to choose one, leaving that part of things up to me.

My favourite item from her cart were the lemon cookies. However, we already had two other types of cookies and I didn't want it to get too focused. The iconic peanut butter birthday cake was on the list, but it wasn't really a baking cart recipe. I settled on the Nutter Butter Truffles because I felt they were a little more unique when contrasted with the other entries in the book, and they were still a classic baking cart feature.

The original recipe just listed "peanuts" as an ingredient with a picture of a jar of peanuts. So I bought one and crushed the whole batch. I don't know how much you need, but I know it's far, far less than what I did.

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