These Vegan Peanut Butter Balls are dangerously good! Made with powdered sugar, vegan butter, and dark chocolate, they're sure to please!

Vegan Peanut Butter Balls stacked on a plate.

These Vegan Peanut Butter Balls are truly difficult to put down! They are made with the same ingredients as buckeyes (in vegan form).

The difference is these are dipped completely in chocolate instead of partially.

You don't really need a hand mixer for this recipe, although you could certainly use one. I used a pastry cutter to break up the vegan butter.

You could also melt the vegan butter for easier mixing.

Another recipe with powdered sugar is my Easy Vegan Peppermint Patty recipe. You might also like my Spicy Peanut Butter Cookies recipe, Vegan Peanut Butter Cups recipe, and Vegan Chocolates with Cherry Filling.

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🧾 Ingredients
📖 Variations
🔪 Instructions
💭 Tips
🥜 Other Peanut Butter Recipes
🎥 Video
📋 Recipe
💬 Comments

🧾 Ingredients

Peanut butter: I used all-natural creamy peanut butter. You can also use shelf-stable peanut butter.
Vegan butter: Helps bind it together and adds a buttery flavor.
Powdered sugar: Dissolves into the peanut butter and adds sweetness.
Vanilla extract: Enhances flavors.
Salt: Enhances flavors.
Chocolate: I used vegan dark chocolate baking chunks. You could also use vegan chocolate chips.
Coconut oil: Adds sheen and helps the chocolate melt faster.

This is an overview of the ingredients. To see the full list of ingredients with measurements and instructions, see the recipe card at the bottom of this post.

📖 Variations

Other nut butter: cashew butter, almond butter, hazelnut butter
Sunflower seed butter
Maple syrup or agave syrup

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🔪 Instructions

Step 1: Mix peanut butter and vegan butter in a medium bowl. Melt vegan butter if needed.

Step 2: Add powder confectioners sugar, vanilla extract, and salt. Place mixture in the fridge for at least 1 hour.

Step 3: Roll dough into balls and place back in the refrigerator.

Step 4: Melt chocolate in either a heatproof bowl over water or in the microwave at 30 second intervals until melted.

Step 5: Add coconut oil.

Peanut Butter mixture in a bowl and being dunked in melted chocolate.

Step 6: With a fork, dip peanut butter balls into chocolate, letting the excess chocolate drip off, and place on a parchment paper lined baking sheet. Place in the fridge or freezer.

Vegan Peanut Butter Balls without and with chocolate.

💭 Tips

I used natural peanut butter for this recipe. Since there is a decent amount of vegan butter in these, you can get away with using all-natural peanut butter.
After mixing the peanut butter filling, place it in the fridge so that it's easier to roll into balls.