Ingredients:
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2 tablespoons
peanut butter
-
1 cup of
finely-chopped peanuts
-
1 packet milk
coffee biscuits
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1 teaspoon
of grated orange rind
-
2 tablespoons
of orange juice
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2 cups of icing
sugar
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4 oz (about
100gm) semi-sweet dark eating chocolate
-
2 tablespoons
of melted butter
Method:
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Melt the chocolate
in the top part of a double boiler over hot (not boiling!) water.
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Remove the
chocolate from the heat when melted and add the butter, peanut butter, icing
sugar, orange rind and juice, and stir to blend the mixture evenly
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Crush the biscuits
finely with a rolling pin and add them to the mixture together with the peanuts,
then mix well again
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Form the mixture
into 1 inch balls, flatten them slightly and mark them to represent pumpkins.
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To finish these
treats, roll them in orange-tinted granulated sugar and press a piece of
citrus peel or green angelica into the top of each one for a pumpkin
stem.
Tip:
Store your
peanut pumpkins in a covered box or tin. Don't refrigerate them or they'll
become hard.
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