Mamma's Reese's Candy

Total Time: 21 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 1 min

Ingredients

• 2 (8 ounce) hershey chocolate candy bars
• 2 1/2 cups butter or 2 1/2 cups margarine
• 1 (18 ounce) jar creamy peanut butter
• 1 (16 ounce) box powdered sugar

Recipe

• 1 break apart 1 chocolate bar on a microwavable dish, melt in 30 second intervals, stirring between.
• 2 spread melted chocolate into a wax paper lined 9x13 dish.
• 3 place in fridge, allow to cool until firm.
• 4 in large bowl, cream together butter, sugar, and peanut butter.
• 5 spread on top of cooled chocolate.
• 6 place in fridge again, allow to cool until firm.
• 7 melt remaining chocolate bar as before, spread over cool peanut mixture.
• 8 return to fridge again and allow all candy to cool until very firm, a couple of hours should do it.
• 9 bring back out of fridge and remove from dish, lift out by wax paper.
• 10 allow to soften just until you can easily cut without breaking the chocolate or squishing the peanut butter mixture.
• 11 cut it with a very sharp, non-serrated knife, into strips, then cut the strips into squares.
• 12 this part takes practice to cut without breaking or squishing the candy. keep in fridge after cutting.
• 13 tip- line dish so wax paper hangs over all sides, this makes removal much easier, you can also butter the dish first so the wax paper doesn't slip around.