White Chocolate & Peanut Butter Avalanche Truffles

Some recipes prove more challenging than others, I’ve found.

And yet some recipes are worth the fight.

I’d been dreaming of turning my Rocky Mountain Avalanche Bars into truffle form for weeks now, creamy and crispy bite-sized candies enrobed in dark chocolate. It’s a dream that quickly turned into an obsession, and an obsession that almost got the better of me in the end.

I’ll just say that it’s a good thing I’m persistent (especially when it comes to chocolate).

The original is still one of my all-time favorite recipes to date. With a white chocolate and peanut butter base, and crunchy bits of rice krispie cereal, soft marshmallows, and chocolate chips, it’s so much more than a rice krispie treat. Like fudge meets candy meets rocky road in reverse.

And these truffles follow suit, even more spectacularly than I imagined. The flavor is distinctly peanut butter (so white chocolate haters resign yourselves to at least TRY one), with bits of crunchy crisp rice and roasted peanuts – just enough to give the truffles texture and crunch but not compromise the smooth nature of the white chocolate, either.

I hope you like them, because, well, I put a lot into this one (time, money, tears…) But hopefully I’ve worked out all the kinks so you don’t have to.

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