Peanut Butter Candy – no cooking required

Here is a quick no cooking required Peanut Butter Candy Recipe made with just 3 ingredients: Creamy Peanut Butter, Powdered Sugar, and Milk. This peanut butter sugar candy was a real treat for me when I was a kid, and it still feels like a treat 50 years later.

What you need for this Sugar Candy recipe

POWDERED SUGAR …also called confectioners’ sugar
creamy PEANUT BUTTER
MILK or half and half

How to make Peanut Butter Candy

This candy recipe looks super simple, but there is a slight learning curve for spreading out the sugar “dough” and rolling up the peanut butter log, so don’t be discouraged if your first few
attempts are a little awkward. I haven’t made this recipe enough to be good at it. My mom makes it look easy.

Spoon powdered sugar into a small bowl, about 1½ cups. The measurement doesn’t have to be exact, because the main thing you want to accomplish is getting the milk-to-sugar ratio right. Build a small “well” in the center of your powdered sugar. Add milk or half ‘n half in at about a tablespoon at a time, mixing it slowly as you go. Don’t add the milk too quickly. Stir the mixture around until it clumps and thickens like a dough. Add milk as needed, and if it gets too wet, just add more sugar.

Start mixing with a spoon. As it clumps into a “sugar dough”, use your hand to mix. Once you get a “dough ball” of sugar, “flour” a flat surface with powdered sugar and place the doughy ball of sugar on it. Flatten the dough with your hand, sprinkling more sugar as needed to keep it from sticking. Turn the sugar dough and flatten it out by hand and then use a rolling pin to flatten and spread the dough until it is about the thickness of a tortilla.

Use a spatula to spread a thin layer of creamy peanut butter over the entire surface of the sugar. Then carefully roll the sugar up from one side to the next, creating a pinwheel of sugar and peanut butter. Dust with sugar as needed to keep the log from sticking. Knead the peanut butter sugar log and press and pull and turn to make it as long as possible without tearing.

Use a knife to cut the log into candy pieces about ½” in length. Set the candy aside on a plate and it will firm up over time. Place it in the fridge and it will firm up faster. Make as much candy as you like, but don’t go crazy–it’s a bunch of sugar! It’s a nice treat, but definitely one you want to eat in moderation. I hope you like this peanut butter candy, it’s one of my childhood favorites.

My mama uses a lot of her kitchen baking gadgets in this video, but you can easily make do with regular kitchen items like a spatula and butter knife, or you can check current prices for some of the gadgets on Amazon: Dough Roller or Dough Scraper or a Flexible Cutting Board Mat.

For another easy to make sweet treat, take a look at this Candied Pecans Recipe.

If you’re interested in treats for the holidays, what about an Easy Fruit Cake Recipe? I know the idea of fruit cake is out of fashion, but this recipe will convert you into a fruit cake lover.

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