Homemade Fudge Flake Peanut Butter Boppers (With Cookie Compaction Variation)

Ingredients:

3/4 loving cup creamy peanut butter
five tablespoons butter, at room temperature
two cups confectioner's sugar
2/3 loving cup crisped rice cereal (i.e. Rice Krispies), lightly crushed
1/2 loving cup semisweet miniature chocolate chips
8 oz nighttime melting wafers*


Directions:

Line a baking canvas alongside wax paper. Set aside.

In a large bowl or inwards the bowl of a stand upward mixer, compaction together the peanut butter, butter, in addition to confectioner's saccharide until glue forms. It should survive tardily to shape, similar a soft yet dry out dough. If it is really soft--too soft to shape, add together additional powdered saccharide a tablespoon at a fourth dimension until it forms the right texture.

Roll the dough betwixt your hands into iv inch long logs, almost 1-1 1/2 inch inwards diameter. Place on the lined tray.

Refrigerate piece you lot melt the chocolate according to packet instructions. Meanwhile, stir together the chips in addition to cereal inwards a shallow bowl or platter.

Roll each log inwards the chocolate in addition to and then at nowadays into the fleck mixture to coat. Refrigerate 10-15 minutes or until the coating is firm. Slice the ends off to bring out the peanut butter filling for maximum accuracy. Serve at nowadays or embrace in addition to refrigerate. Remove from fridge five minutes earlier serving at room temperature.

For the best shelf-life shop inwards an air-tight container inwards the refrigerator. Boppers should not, however, melt if kept at room temperature.



*I used these Ghiradelli wafers I bought at Wegmans but whatever candy making wafers would do.


Cookie Crunch variation:

Instead of crisped rice cereal in addition to chips, whorl logs inwards 3/4 loving cup crushed Nabisco Chocolate Wafers (or Oreos alongside the creme filling removed in addition to discarded if you lot can't honour the wafers).

Yield: almost 12 Bopppers

My thoughts:

For some reason, Peanut Butter Boppers, a snack rarely discussed that disappeared from the shelves inwards the 1980s has haunted me for decades. Growing upward nosotros did non consume much inwards the means of packaged snack nutrient at all. My mom packed our lunches but 99% of it was homemade in addition to fifty-fifty the things similar chips were from a larger pocketbook in addition to repackaged--no prepacked convenience foods for us. For some reason, Boppers must choose made it into the cart because I tin post away silent retrieve how they gustation today. I choose a really distinct retentivity of looking at them on the shelf when I was approximately vii in addition to existence told nosotros couldn't instruct a box in addition to and then they disappeared from the shelf forever. I choose this affair where I can't actually picture anything beyond the vaguest outlines in addition to i of the really few things I tin post away variety of painting is a row of Boppers on a grocery shop shelf thus it made quite an impression! Why I don't know. They were really tasty though!

When the cyberspace became a affair I tried to await them upward to run across if they were silent regionally available or discontinued entirely. I kept thinking they were called Bonkers which didn't brand feel every bit Bonkers was some other candy of the '80s that is at nowadays defunct in addition to inwards my search, I realized that what I was thinking of was called Boppers. I flora this commercial which explains some of my confusion--in it they beak almost "going crazy, going boppers" over Peanut Butter Boppers. Who uses "boppers" in addition to non "bonkers" to hateful nutty is beyond me but at to the lowest degree that solved i mystery. Boppers also made a cameo inwards The Lost Boys, they were on the shelf the boys were non allowed to touching on inwards the fridge along alongside the root beer in addition to Oreos. So mortal out at that spot was eating them too me!

Basically, Boppers were a dryish peanut butter stick (think the filling of a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup) rolled inwards chocolate in addition to then crisped rice cereal in addition to chips. Apparently, they were made past times granola-famous Nature Valley but I don't recall them existence marketed every bit whatever variety of wellness nutrient in addition to let's survive honest, these are a treat.

Since I choose ever loved nighttime chocolate, I used nighttime melting chocolate in addition to semisweet chips (which I experience were inwards used inwards the originals every bit well) but if you lot choose to a greater extent than of a sugariness tooth, you lot tin post away run milk melting chocolate and/or chips. Remember to run actual melting chocolate though thus it sets upward properly. Alternatively, you lot tin post away melt in addition to temper your ain chocolate but this is much easier in addition to for this, only every bit tasty. Also, run mini chips to coat, regular chips are only too large in addition to volition autumn off.

They actually create gustation similar the Boppers I retrieve (of course, I was almost six dorsum in addition to then thus it has been a while) but possibly slightly ameliorate cheers to using ameliorate lineament ingredients. Satisfyingly peanut buttery, slightly crunchy in addition to chocolatey. I don't intend they are bringing these dorsum to the shelves anytime shortly but you lot tin post away bask these today!


Now if I could only figure out how to brand Chocolate Mint Bubblicious, some other mid-80s era discontinued favorite, I'll survive all set.