This Chocolate Peanut Butter Cheese Ball is a perfect appetizer for any party or just great to have around on the weekends. It’s not hard to make, which is a definite plus. If you’re a chocolate & peanut butter lover, you’re going to love this recipe!
When you mention the two words PEANUT and BUTTER to my 15-year-old son, you’re bound to hear “Oh my gosh, I want some!” I’m pretty sure the only word he loves more is BACON.
How to Make a Chocolate Peanut Butter Cheese Ball
The good news is that cheese ball recipes are easy to make without any fancy ingredients. This one needs just 8 ingredients, and I usually have many or all of them on hand:
In a bowl, combine the Cream Cheese, Peanut Butter, Powdered Sugar, Cocoa Powder and Salt.
Stir until smooth. Add the Vanilla and stir to incorporate.
Place the mixture into the center of a piece of plastic wrap 1 ½ – 2 feet long. Bring up the corners and form the mixture into a ball. Give the ends a twist and place the ball in the freezer for 1 hour.
Reform the mixture into a ball if it flattened out and return to the freezer until firm, 4 hours – overnight. Add the Chocolate and Peanut Butter Chips to a bowl and roll the ball to coat.
Hold the ball in one hand over the bowl and fill in the bare spots with chips using the other hand pressing in with the palm of your hand. Serve with an assortment of your favorite cookies, crackers, pretzels or apple slices.
Chocolate Peanut Butter Cheese Ball
Servings 6 servings
Ingredients
- 8 oz. Cream Cheese softened
- 2/3 cups Creamy Peanut Butter
- 1 ¼ cups Powdered Sugar
- 2 Tbsp Cocoa Powder unsweetened
- ½ tsp Salt
- 1 tsp Vanilla
- ¾ cups Peanut Butter Chips
- ½ cups Semisweet Chocolate Chips
Instructions
- In a bowl combine the Cream Cheese, Peanut Butter, Powdered Sugar, Cocoa Powder and Salt. Stir until smooth.
- Add the Vanilla and stir to incorporate.
- Place the mixture into the center of a piece of plastic wrap 1 ½ - 2 feet long. Bring up the corners and form the mixture into a ball. Give the ends a twist and place the ball in the freezer for 1 hour.
- Re-form the mixture into a ball if it flattened out and return to the freezer until firm, 4 hours – overnight.
- Before serving remove the ball from the freezer and let sit 10 minutes.
- Add the Chocolate and Peanut Butter Chips to a bowl and roll the ball to coat.
- Hold the ball in one hand over the bowl and fill in the bare spots with chips using the other hand pressing in with the palm of your hand.
- Serve with an assortment of your favorite cookies, crackers, pretzels or apple slices.
Editor note: Originally published on 1/26/2015 and updated 1/6/2019
Visiting from Showcase Your Talent Thursdays and ran across your yummy chocolate-peanut butter cheese ball! I could eat it all, I promise you! Love this 😉 Thanks for sharing, pinned and tweeted!
Thank you, Kim!
Saw this at the Weekend Social –wow! Pinning this one — looks amazing! 🙂
Thank you, Dee & thanks so much for stopping by!
This looks divine!! Pinning it for later 🙂
This looks delicious! Thanks for sharing with us at the #HomeMattersParty this week.
~Bonnie
I’ve made a Chocolate Chip Dip cheese ball sort of recipe for years. This is the perfect complement. (My cheese BALL became cheese DIP when I used margarine instead of butter. It was a serendipitous flub as the dip was even better received than the ball.)
Love this. Pinned it! Cheers!
I aminterested in making this but dont see the measurements for each item. I see written directions for mixing things together but not how much.
Hi Michelle, Oh, thanks for letting me know and I’m so sorry. I’ve fixed this issue and hope you still get a chance to make it…
Where are the ingredient amounts?
Hi Linda, Sorry there was an issue before. The full recipe now appears again…
It looks delicious & testy. I think i have made a chocolate.. thank you so much for you sharing..