I came up with this recipe because I simply miss my peanut-butter-balls, I’ve grown a intolerance to peanuts, I break out in hives and rash so I avoid it now but miss all my peanut butter recipes. Yes I know there is the ‘non’ peanut spreads but I don’t care for it.
Lotus biscoff is sweeter than peanut butter but has a similar consistency and I like the taste of the spread, so I thought to experiment and have some fun with it. Next time I make them I think I will add some biscoff crumbs or graham crumbs to the mix and see which I like better. Tastes fine to me like this, but wonder how it would be if I added the cookies.
Because of the sweetness I couldn’t use that much icing sugar to help it set, so I thought what would help it harden and white chocolate came to mind, so I used that.
It doesn’t make many balls, as the jar of biscoff spread is small, you will end up making around 15 -18 but if you make the balls smaller you can make more.
I used 4 tbsp white chocolate chips and 2 tbsp icing sugar.
In a small pot over hot water over the stove top I melted the biscoff spread with the white chocolate chips, then stirred in the icing sugar, if the sugar gets clumpy beat it with a wisk.
Refrigerate for a few hours to harden.
Then using a cookie scooper, scoop out into balls you may shape them with your hands to make perfect rounds, place the balls on a wax paper or parchment paper lined pan.
Place the balls back into the fridge for an hour.
You may wonder why I didn’t coat them with white chocolate, I thought the chocolate would cut down the sweetness and it did, if you rather coat them in white chocolate feel free to do so. You can use dark or milk chocolate as well, I used dark but added a little milk chocolate to add a touch of sweetness to the bitter dark.
You can use any of kind chocolate to coat them with, I had chocolate candy melts and since they harden quickly I figured I use it, if I had chocolate bark I would have used that instead but we don’t have that in Canada. To a bowl I added dark chocolate candy melts I used half the bag worth, added 1 tbsp of milk chocolate chips and melted it, I used a double boiler but if you have a microwave, you can use that.
For the garnish I used white candy melts, melted and crushed up Lotus cookies.
Store in the refrigerator.