Easter Candy Recipes
Peanut Butter Fudge
2 cups sugar
14 cup milk
2 tablespoons butter
Boil to soft ball or 235 degrees
on candy thermometer.
Take from stove and add:
1 cup marshmallow
1 cup peanut butter
1 teaspoon vanilla
Spread in buttered pan. Let
cool. If desired, you can add 2
tablespoons cocoa.
Mary Jane Heidlebaugh,
Stewartstown
Buck-Eyes
I (8-ounce) package cream
cheese, room temp.
4 'A cups sifted confectioners
sugar (heaping)
1 teaspoon vanilla
'A cup peanut butter (creamy)
6 ounces coating chocolate
Blend ingredients and form into
1-inch balls. Cool on tray in
refrigerator a few hours. Dip with
toothpick y* of each ball into
melted chocolate and cool again.
Layer in a container with plastic
wrap between each layer. These
hold up nicely.
Joan Young,
Lititz
Chocolate Easter Eggs
1 stick margarine
1 (16 oz.) jar chunky peanut butter
1 box confectioners’ sugar
cups rice krispies cereal
large chocolate Hershey bar
6 oz. package chocolate chips
Combine margarine, peanut
butter, sugar and rice krispies.
Shape into eggs by using teaspoon
as measure. Melt chocolate bar
and chips on top of double boiler.
Dip eggs in chocolate, then place
on waxed paper to cool.
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Quick And Easy Easter
Egg Candy
% pound butter (melted)
'A teaspoon salt
'A pound cream cheese
1 tablespoon vanilla
2 pound confectioners’ sugar
Mix and add coconut or peanut
butter to taste. Refrigerate 1 hour.
Roll into egg shapes.
Coating:
12 ounce chocolate bits
Melt chocolate bits in double
boiler. Stir occasionally. Dip eggs
in coating. Lay on cookie sheet
and cover with waxed paper.
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•Peanut Butter Fudge
2 cups light brown sugar
1 cup white sugar
'A pound butter
V\ cup evaporated milk
1 cup peanut butter
17-ounce jar marshmallow creme
Combine sugar, butter, and
milk. Cook to soft ball stage (240*
F). Remove from heat and add
peanut butter and marshmallow
creme. Stir until stiff enough to
pour in pan. Cool. Cut into
squares.
Pan size: 6xlo inch.
Temperature; 240* F on candy
thermometer.
Peanut Butter Fudge
2'A cups granulated sugar
'A cup water
17 ounce jar marshmallow cream
1 12 ounce jar peanut butter,
crunchy or smooth
1 teaspoon vanilla
Put sugar and water in a heavy
saucepan stirring until sugar dis
solves on low heat Bring to a boil
and boil 3 'A minutes. Remove
from heat. Stir in marshmallow
and peanut butter, vanilla. Stir
well pour into a buttered 9x9-inch
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Stan’s Peanut Butler Eggs
'A cup evaporated milk
2VS cups confectioners’ sugar
2 pound coating chocolate
3 tablespoons butter
2 cups peanut butter '
Combine milk and butter and
cook for 5 minutes. Cook very
slowly, stirring often. Stir in con
fectioners’ sugar, continue stirring
until mixture is smooth. Put in
cold place and let cool for a few
hours. Stir in peanut butter and let
cod again. Shape in an egg and
lay on a tray lined with wax paper.
Set in a cool place again until cold
enough to dip in chocolate. Put
chocolate in top of double boiler.
Warm until just melted or the cho
colate will get hard.
Makes about 75 eggs.
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Homemade Easter Eggs
1 tablespoon butter
2 cups granulated sugar
A cup water
VA cup evaporated milk
2 teaspoon orange juice
'A teaspoon grated orange rind
2 cups coconut, chopped
Melt butter, add sugar, milk and
water. Boil to soft ball stage, stir
ring constantly. Remove from
heat. Add flavoring and coconut
Beat until smooth and creamy.
Drop by teaspoon on wax paper.
When stiff, mold into egg shapes.
Let stand overnight Melt semi
sweet chocolate and coat each
egg. To make different flavors:
nuts, maraschino cherries or pea
nut butter can be used in place of
mange flavoring.
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