Peanut Butter Balls...Making an impact for Jesus

The story of the Peanut Butter Balls

Written on February 13, 2017

Original Recipe (1 Batch)

¾ cup creamy peanut butter

½ cup honey

1 tsp. vanilla

¾ cup powdered dry milk

Mix above ingredients together

Add in 1 ½ cups Rice Krispies and 1 cup (approximately) mini chocolate chips

Roll into balls and refrigerate.

This recipe was given to me by  the mother of one of son's cross-country teammates.  She would often make these for cross-country races. I enjoyed them so much and knew my son liked them so I started to make them.

Some days my son would ask for them.  I would often make them for him to take to school. This started during his junior year and he would take them to Fellowship of Christian Athletes.

I had to double then triple and so on the recipe.

Double Batch:

1 ½ cup creamy peanut butter

1 cup honey

2 tsp. vanilla

1 ½ cup powdered dry milk

3 cups Rice Krispies

2 cup mini chocolate chips

Triple Batch:

2 ¼ cup creamy peanut butter

1 ½ cup honey

3 tsp. vanilla

2 ¼ cups powdered dry milk

4 ½ cups Rice Krispies

2 cups mini chocolate chips (I usually eyeball this)

Times Four:

3 cups creamy peanut butter

2 cups honey

4 tsp. vanilla

3 cups powdered dry milk

6 cups Rice Krispies

2 cups mini chocolate chips (I usually eyeball this)

Times Five:

3 ¾ cups creamy peanut butter

2 ½ cups honey

5 tsp. vanilla

3 ¾ cups powdered dry milk

7 ½ cups Rice Krispies

2 ½  cups mini chocolate chips (I usually eyeball this)

Times Seven:

5 ¼ cups creamy peanut butter

3 ½ cups honey

7 tsp. vanilla

5 ¼ cups powdered dry milk

10 ½ cups Rice Krispies

3-4 cups mini chocolate chips (I usually eyeball this)

My son continued to take these in to FCA (Fellowship of Christian Athletes) which met on every other Friday morning the first part of his senior year. (The second part of the year they met each week).  My son's second period statistics class would sometimes get the leftovers.  They soon became wise to listen to the morning announcements and figure out when FCA would meet. They would often ask my son to bring them in.  I would usually make them for him!  When he missed a Friday due to getting his wisdom teeth out the class asked if he would still bring them in. No such luck. On the car ride on the way home from his surgery my son was out of it but joked about taking peanut butter balls into school!

We later found out from his teacher  that the entire math department (or most of them) loved peanut butter balls and would often come to his room on Fridays just for Peanut Butter Balls!

God uses food to bring people to Him. God uses many things.  I don't know all of the impact and probably never will.

We have now moved the peanut butter balls onto my son's college cross country team. Oh, but they still go into statistics class. You see my second son has the same teacher!

I also found out that you CAN freeze these!  That's a plus in my simple world!!!