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Christmas Peanut Cookies are the most sought after goodies during the holiday season and though they happen to be age-old favorites, they have not lost their charm and hence are still very popular and feature among the first few holiday musts on every body's candy priority charts. Easy to preserve and even easier to implement, these cookies have carved out a niche for themselves in everyone's heart and they essentially remind us of the good times we have had and the good times to come.
They form the best and the safest bets as Christmas showers as they are to every bodies liking and tastes. Don't wait till Christmas to prepare these wonder cookies. Easy to prepare and fun to implement, they add a dash of warmth to any party or occasion. Ingredients required to prepare Christmas Peanut Cookies are 2 cups peanut butter, 3 cups rice cereal, 1/2 cup butter, 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips, 1 pound confectioners' sugar (about 4 1/4 cups sifted) and 1 cup butterscotch chips.
Melt the peanut butter with butter in a saucepan. Mix the confectioners' sugar and cereal thoroughly and batter. Add the hot peanut butter mixture into the cereal mixture. When the mixture thoroughly blends, shape into 1/2-inch balls. Chill it. Melt butterscotch and chocolate chips in separate pans and then dip half of the candies in chocolate, and the other half in the melted butterscotch respectively. Swirl the tops of the cookies with the back of a spoon before placing it on the waxed paper-lined cookie sheet. Chill first and then serve. This arrangement yields about 8- dozen peanut butter candies.
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