Maple Peanut Delights Recipe

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Meet the Cook: This wonderful candy recipe makes a big batch - enough to fill several Christmas gift boxes and still have treats left for my husband, Albert, and our grandchildren. One of our daughters-in-law shared the recipe a few years ago. -Katie Stutzman, Goshen, Indiana

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Maple Peanut Delights Recipe

Prep: 30 min. + chilling

Yield: 48 Servings

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Ingredients

1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup butter, softened
6 cups confectioners' sugar
1 teaspoon maple flavoring
2 pounds dark chocolate candy coating, coarsely chopped
1 cup chopped peanuts

Directions

In a large bowl, beat the cream cheese, butter, confectioners' sugar and flavoring until smooth. Cover and refrigerate for 1 hour.
Shape into 1-in. balls. In a microwave, melt candy coating, stirring often. Dip balls in coating; sprinkle with peanuts. Place on waxed paper-lined baking sheets. Refrigerate. Yield: about 8 dozen.

Nutritional Facts 1 serving (2 each) equals 208 calories, 11 g fat (7 g saturated fat), 10 mg cholesterol, 46 mg sodium, 29 g carbohydrate, 1 g fiber, 2 g protein.

Originally published as Maple Peanut Delights in Country Woman November/December 1999, p29