Buckeyes

BUCKEYES

Ingredients:

2 pounds of creamy peanut butter (can use most of a 40 oz. jar)

3 pounds powdered sugar

1 pound butter, softened

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

good chocolate (I use Hershey’s Symphony creamy milk chocolate bars - you don’t want to skimp on the quality of chocolate.)

Directions:

1. Blend peanut butter, sugar, butter, and vanilla.  

2. Roll into 3/4  inch balls and place on a wax paper lined cookie sheet.

3. Poke a toothpick into the top of each ball (to be used later as the handle for dipping) and chill in freezer until hard (1/2 hour).

4. Melt chocolate in the top of a double boiler (use very low heat, not much hotter than tap water or the chocolate will get  grainy. This will take awhile).

5. Dip frozen peanut butter balls in chocolate holding onto the toothpick. Leave a small portion of peanut butter showing at the top to make them look like Buckeyes.

6. Put back on the wax paper lined cookie sheet and refrigerate 2 hours.  

Makes a lot of Buckeyes so you can freeze leftovers and have a “stash”!  

We have also pressed the dough into the bottom of a bar pan and then spread the melted chocolate on top.  It makes a nice bar treat and is much easier and quicker to make than the buckeyes.  They aren’t as pretty, but they taste just as yummy!   :)